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Re: Short film set entirely on a teen's computer screen

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This is a pretty negative portrayal (obviously) of the dark side of social media. I think that it should be taken that people should be careful about getting too sucked in rather than thinking that social media is "evil". A lot of good and amazing things have come from Facebook (maybe chat-roulette not so much). For example, the Soccer Goalie story is pretty moving (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpOvYWd4KW4). Granted this came directly from Facebook, there are other similar stories out there if you look.

Re: Short film set entirely on a teen's computer screen

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Why would you bookmark chatroulette?

I've seen people bookmark Facebook and Youtube as well, even though they can get to them through their browser's version of Speed Dial or by simply typing the first letter of the link in the address bar and pressing return.

Re: Short film set entirely on a teen's computer screen

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post #3

This is a pretty negative portrayal (obviously) of the dark side of social media. I think that it should be taken that people should be careful about getting too sucked in rather than thinking that social media is "evil". A lot of good and amazing things have come from Facebook (maybe chat-roulette not so much). For example, the Soccer Goalie story is pretty moving ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpOvYWd4KW4 ). Gran…

I'm curious whether anyone on here ever actually seen anything like the Soccer Goalie story in your own usage of social media. I would say this video is one of the most truthful statements about what social media is actually like; the soccer goalie story is an absurd outlier about possible upsides of social media and an unusually negative portrayal would be more along the lines of cyberbullying and harassment.
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