Friday, April 13, 2007

Virtual World Versus Reality World

If you are going to throw stones be aware that anonymity doesn't, thank gawd, give you the protection it once did and that is probably a sign that the internet is maturing.

April 13, 2007
Confusing the virtual world with reality
Once upon a time, there were five Toronto high school kids who didn't like their vice-principal. But instead of quietly discussing the aspects of the woman they saw as a tyrant — as I would have done, and trust me, I was a fantastically stupid teenager — they went high-tech and posted slurs against her on the social networking site Facebook.com. >by Heather Mallick >full column

No comments:

Post a Comment