Social Media and Privacy

We have no privacy in this generation, as told by When Rape Goes Viral. It really is horrifying that people feel the need to not just harass a person, but record it or videotape it and show it to the world. I personally have never really encountered anything to this extent, of course there were situations in high school like this that happened but never really escalated anything like this. I never thought that it was right, it is an invasion of privacy and something that no one should ever be constantly reminded of whenever they go on the internet. I'm not sure if there is a solution, besides taking action into the case and attempting to actually doing something about it, something the college in the article did not do. But I suppose there is only so much that they can do if they do not have any proof of the students having the video or showing the video.

Regardless of the situation it's a shame the internet is being manipulated and used for these purposes. People have completely taken advantage of the lack of privacy on social media sites and YouTube in the worst ways possible. These types of crimes can damage someone emotionally as much or even more as physical damage can do to them. There are no excuses for this type of behavior from the persons posting the videos/pictures and should not be tolerated.