Throughout the book So You've Been Publicly Shamed, Jon Ronson has gone through various examples of people being publicly shamed. Even though this book was written years ago, it still has consistencies in today’s culture. In today's society social media runs our world and the people living on this planet. Twitter tweets, Instagram posts, and Facebook posts have the potential to make someone famous for the good or bad. One example of this could be the “dog poop girl” who got worldwide publicity after being blasted on social media. The incident took place in 2005 and is known to be one of the first social media public shaming. Supposedly, her dog pooped in the subway and she was asked to clean it up. She apparently got upset and out of control making a huge scene on the train. Within a couple of hours, she was all over social media and the internet. During this shaming, information about her family and personal information was floating all around the web. People found her personal website and sent hate mail to her and they began to notice her in public. It got so humiliating that she had to drop out of her university. John Krim from The Washington Post said “… was a remarkable show of Internet force, and a peek into an unsettling corner of the future.” In my opinion, John Krim hit the nail on the head with his article from 2007. Public shaming was brand new and he knew that this would only get worse with time, new media, and technologies.
As time passes, we can see that people have continued to be heinous online. Just like “dog poop girl”, Justine Sacco who story has been written in Jon Ronsons’ book So You've Been Publicly Shamed has felt the wrath of people online. Justine Sacco was traveling from New York to South Africa. She was taking off on a plane when she tweeted “Going to Africa. Hope I don’t get AIDS. Just Kidding. I’m White!” She simply shut her phone off as the flight emerged in to the sky. As she was in the sky, her twitter feed was blowing up with threats and foul words. She even had a hashtag that was trending worldwide named “HasJustineLandedYet”. She was fired from her job and her name is globally known. She has said that it is even hard to date anyone because people look up her name on the internet. Yes, these stories are different, but they are similar in a sense of total humiliation from strangers. Do they deserve what came towards them? Who deserves to be publicly shamed or should we at all? How can we restore this communication? At this point, technology is past the point of return. There are so many platforms that are open for anyone. People can simply hide behind a keyboard and say whatever comes to their mind. Personally, I do not see public shaming stopping ever. I think that our generation is very quick to get offended and the media does not help. As a whole, we should be very careful to tweet or post something because you never know who will take it the wrong way.
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