The movie we watched in class had me in a state of awe. I heard stories before of people creating fake identities and even heard of a girl getting kidnapped because she met up with her "internet boyfriend"; yet, I have never seen anything as shell-shocking as some of the stories in the movie.
Just with the over controlling mother. I mean by not allowing her son to "communicate" like the rest of his generation she is actually hindering him. The new way for most people to communicate in our generation is via technology. Whether it is to send and email, text, or to purely call, its all technologically based. Although nobody really teaches us how to send an email, we learn by watching other's or trying different styles ourselves. For example, we know that the formality we use to email a teacher is not like the one we use to recount our lives to our friends. People in the United States are living in a more polychromic atmosphere, where everybody knows everything about everybody's lives (the obscurities of some people's Facebook status who reveal every minute thing they do). This brings back the point of the freaky mother. By controlling her children, she is actually pushing them to resort to secrets and sometimes trouble as they tried to find another mean to "stay in touch 24/7 with their friends".
Even more absurd was the anorexic girl, and all the commodity thats goes with it. It was amazing how some people actually built blogs to encourage others to pursue their anorexic behaviors. This alludes to the danger of the web and how everything can be posted. That you could literally find anything to support any of your ludicrous ideas just by searching on a web engine.
Yet, the scariest thing would be how with just one mouse click, you could be the person you always wanted to be, or invent a person completely because you are that apparently bored. Remember the girl who posed pictures? The internet is a wall with a small door. You can open the door and throw anything about you, true or untrue, to the people on the other side. And when you shut that door, they will never know who you truly are. They scramble with what you have throw at them. You can be in this sense God, and create a whole new identity that could be based on anything, and the worst part is nobody will know its you, not even sometimes your friends. How scary is that?
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