I struggle with the generation to come with the use of
telephones. People today video tape everything and go straight for the phone.
However, people do not help the cause if they are video taping what is
happening. I agree that phones can be useful to share what happens and it is
helpful in court. It makes things very black and white since there is hard
evidence to prove a claim. But in the video below, there are two girls fighting
over politics. I find it troubling that there are two people who could have help
to break this up but did nothing. The only action done is that one chooses to
video tape it. The other SAT there with his back to the fight. They both did
nothing to stop or help the girls during the fight.
On Snapchat, a new update was made where it has added news pieces
for live stories. Anyone can add their own information on news around the same
topic. For example, there was an attack on Ohio State and Snapchat had a story where user can upload anything to this.
This Story was then updates of what is happening that anyone can add anything
to. People we adding video clips of their opinions. This is not a good source
of news because its not fact checked or really filtered in any form. People are
showing clips of the person who saw and gave his side of the story. Because the
clip was so short, 10 seconds to be exact, it came off as racial
profiling. People can get the wrong idea
of what happened through these stories since they are just glimpses of the real
thing.
Both the video of the fight and updates on the school
stabbing is a problem since the only thing people are doing is just going
straight to their phones. Instead of helping solve the problem they are
creating a bigger problem by spreading false media. This is due to not being professional
journalist. The phone has become a problem as well as the need to share
everything. Just think of how people could have done better things than just posting
videos.
Photo 1: http://gawker.com/5883368/cell-phone-cameras-and-the-end-of-the-fair-fight
Photo 2: http://www.columbusunderground.com/forums/topic/snapchat-geofilters-columbus
Photo 3:http://www.smartsign.com/no-cell-phone-allowed-signs
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