today's society consists of a new form of public humiliation, which comes in the form of social networking sites. instead of people actually writing mean comments or sending messages directly towards a person, they now have the chance to anonymously post opinions of others.
in the past few years the amount of facebook pages being created under the name of "spotted in..." have increased dramatically. at the beginning it started in cities, towns and villages. however, now you can find these type of pages directed at the schools or universities you go to.
adults that use these pages, actually put them to good use. And many have found them useful in terms of finding a lost cat, advertising jobs, or selling an item. on the other hand young teens have decided to take a new direction, and have gone as far as using it to personally ridicule others, and the worst part of it is, you don't know who wrote it.
posting comments anonymously is not a new concept, sites such as formspring, askfm and tumblr have an option to create an anonymous question. however you are able to chose whether you delete this comment or post it publicly.
whereas this is much different, your name may not be written in the post, but chances are there will be something on it that describes something about you, which instinctively you'll then realise they're written about you.
in more recent times snapchat pages have been popping up which in some cases could be worse. i myself recently became a victim on this type of page, my full name was posted across the snapchat. the thing is that anyone can access this, so in the long run it is more humiliating for you.
of course its easy to just report the comment, but at the end of the day why should something like that have been posted in the first place? if the admin of the page can see it is a post that could hurt someone in some way then why do they they publish it...
some schools have had to get involved because students have been made targets. the comments and posts about people can be awful. i just feel these pages are unnecessary, because they aren't put to good use by the majority. who cares if you saw a "hottie" walking down the street, why post about it, stalker alert!!! although some comments may seem amusing from your point of view, you've got to sit there and think about how the person who's being written about is feeling.
all in all these pages are probably just a phase and will die out eventually, even i found them amusing at first. its all fun and games until you get posted up there, then you realise that really they're just pointless...
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