NO MERCY RESPONSE!

In response to Malcolm Gladwell’s essay, I think that the issue that took place should have because if the issue had never been written about we would not have the strict rules or non-tolerance we have today. The fact that Gladwell took out the time to say what the graduate student’s actions were promotes the security and the awareness of what prompted the student to go forth with the issue. Gladwell says that spending time with a psychiatrist may have been a good idea, but the issue goes far beyond a mental problem or disorder. The essay specifically stated that, at that moment in the student’s life he was going through a lot and could have just possibly needed attention. He was forced to do something that he apparently did not like nor did he agree to take any part of it.  Gladwell says in today’s society there is a zero tolerance level for minor behavior, something as small as telling a destructive kid to do the opposite. As a supporter of this essay, Malcolm Gladwell took a big step in publishing this essay so that not just college students, but so everyone could be aware of such a severe situation. Gladwell makes this seem as if the issue was promotable but at the level a punishment should be both cautious and notable. I say that the student a break, clearly he was in a bad place at the wrong time and again he needed attention and maybe just a little bit of encouragement as well as enthusiasm. But, as for the football quarterback, no mercy he was a aware of the severity and the amount that he was being paid, no mercy for him.

Preliminary Research on Facebook and Video/Tag Posts

The research that I am currently doing deals specifically with a video posting of a young teenage girl who was exposed through the act of bullying and nonconsensual sex. During the filming of the video she was unaware of what was going on behind her or who was watching so she claimed. This type of accusation and stage of bullying forced outsiders/viewers to watch and either support her or degrade her. Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube clearly allows users to automatically post videos without some kind of consent or warning. But, the posting is not what kills the users it’s the tagging of someone’s name or profile that causes such a disturbance and a turns into a tantrum. For instance, I watched a YouTube video for entertainment, and the video conductor seriously expressed how he felt about being tagged in unknown videos or pictures that he had never heard of, surprisingly people that he didn’t know and still fails to know who they are today. My point here is that tagging is becoming too explicit; sure any person should be able to post a video for entertainment, but without harming the viewers or the video participants. This summons the amount of preliminary research that I will continue to go forth with.