unit 5

ok, here's the cliffsnotes on my paper for unit 5....sex and violence in virtual worlds, and how it affects the real world.

in SL, i managed to find and score some free threads and shoes...and i was so uncomfortable even changing my clothes...i felt like everyone else was looking at me change. did anyone else feel super vulnerable?

myspace bully

i was appalled after reading the aol news article about the myspace bully. wait, let me clarify: the myspace MOM bully. correct me if i'm wrong, but aren't parents supposed to stress the "do unto others" schpiel? i mean, i don't have kids, so i don't know what it would feel like if one of them got picked on. but i remember when i got picked on as a kid. and i remember my parents telling me how i shouldn't retaliate with violence, and i shouldn't judge them, and i should "kill them with kindness" so to speak. wtf!!! did this mom just go to the bar and get drunk the day they taught this to parents? how can a parent not only encourage this sort of behavior but actually DO it?

ok, seriously....i'd LOVE to ask this woman...did she really think she'd never get caught? or how the world (or the community, on a small scale) would react to such behavior? what if you were her daughter? i can't speak for everyone, but my mom would lose major respect points with me if she ever did that. the amount of freaking IDIOTS in the world just never ceases to amaze me.