Sunday, April 21, 2013

Media Impact

On YouTube I found a video about a girl who flashed a guy on a video chatting website because he had convinced her to do so. A Year later the guy found her on Facebook and said he was going to expose her breast to the world including family. He ended up sending the picture of her out to everyone and even the police got involved. She moved away but they guy made a page on Facebook all about her and the profile picture was her breast. She became very detested because everyone saw her and that caused to be on various medications for ani-depression. Facebook helped everyone see her flashing.
She tried moving on by switching schools, where she met a guy friend. She hooked up with him because he made her believe that he really cared about her but was just really using her. The other problem was that he had a girlfriend and they ended up getting into a fight. She was so depressed that she tried to kill herself by drinking bleach but was taken to the emergency room soon enough. She moved schools again and was starting to feel better with her life but that. Soon ended when people from her old school posted bleach related post and tagged her in it. When she saw all those posts, that she was tagged in, she really broke down and started cutting herself.
The media had a very big part in breaking down this girl who just made a couple mistakes in believing in guys to much. If it wasn't for the media it wouldn't have gotten so bad and the guy who took her picture of her flashing wouldn't have been able to share the picture with the world and people also wouldn't be able to tag her in rude comments of what she did to herself because of things she saw on the media.

1 comment:

  1. I found this on wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_of_Amanda_Todd
    It's very sad. I have to wonder why she kept going back to social media, e.g. posting the entire story on YouTube.

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