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Originally Posted by Robodog
The Ellis situation sends out an important message to the public:
"You cannot trust twitter and facebook"
Why?
Because if she'd made those same comments in a private text message or a hand-written letter, had written them down in a diary, or had simply said them out loud to someone - then she would not be in this situation.
It is because they are on twitter that this is happening.
So what are twitter/facebook really about then?
Some kind of trapping device, to be used against people if they ever become famous?
This is why I (and many many others) do not have accounts on those platforms. Well dodgy.
We ALL make mistakes and say dumb stuff about other people, especially when we are young. EVERYONE does.
Should we ALL be punished in this way, for dumb stuff we said when we were children?
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You've answered your own question.
Things said behind closed doors are behind closed doors.
A lot of people just don't think of things like Twitter and Facebook as what they are... a PUBLIC DOMAIN.
So, yes when you're posting things on them, it's as good as physically saying it in public and then getting a reputation based on that.
So, Twitter and Facebook aren't dodgy, they're just not suitable for such naive and immature people.
No use blaming social media itself, it's people's use of these platforms that is their pitfall.
Also, there is no "punishing people for being young and dumb", people don't want to associate with someone who has such offensive material ATTACHED to their name on a PUBLIC platform.
You can say she did such and such when she was 15, but it's still there under her username on the internet years later.