Today’s Culture of youtube… « Lexieb76’s Weblog
This culture of showing everything on websites designed for entertainment are really bringing a new facet to our culture. Here we saw where young girls were honestly proud of their crimes and the horrendous treatment of another young lady. I even heard one girl say she deserved it after what she had said on myspace.com.

Events like this put me in mind of the ancient Romans and the Colosseum.  When people find violence to be a form of entertainment, I think we should be concerned.  I realize that part of the attraction arises from simple curiosity, but when our sense of morality does not stop use from wanting to see this type of behavior, we have a problem.  I also realize that students at this age are attempting to establish dominance and reinforce their image, but when behavior moves to extreme violence, then there is something just not right in these situations.  I do feel these type of videos should be screened more closely, and ideally they would be…..but realistically, the sheer volume of uploads per day would very likely prevent such monitoringl