Saturday, February 26, 2011
Riots caused from social networking
Social networking is a big part of everyone life who has access to a computer or phone. This blog is about the teenagers who planned to meet up at Mayfair mall and damaged Boston Store. Social networking can be a negative and positive thing. There was a riot at Mayfair mall on Sunday January 2nd, 2010. There were hundreds of teenagers who met up at the mall all at the same time because of face book, which is a social network site. The police investigated face book to track and find out who were all involved in the riot. The story made breaking news on channels, six and twelve, and also made newspaper headlines. When one of the teen was asked why they decided to trash Mayfair, he responded, “We did it just to have fun”. The mall closed early do to the amount of damage the teens had caused, they had knocked down racks, they stole, and even when chased out of the store, they ran around and jumped on cars in the parking lot. The teens organized and planned this riot on face book. The teens posted, and in boxed what time and day to meet up at the mall and cause the riot. Without face book there might have not been enough time and planning to gather all of the teens. I think that this is one of the reasons why I say social networking can be a negative thing. Do you think that this riot would have accrued if there were no face book? Should teens be banned from social networking because of this riot? Now since the riot has happened, the police are always on face book, investigating, and invading people privacy of their face book pages. Should the police be allowed to look in or have access to everyone pages, to make sure a incident like this one doesn’t occur again? Just a couple of questions please comment and let me know what you think.
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I think it's a good idea to have surveillance on social networking sites so long as it benefits the greater good. Instances such as the one that occurred at Mayfair Mall could be prevented with such measures. People should understand that there is no such thing as privacy on a public domain, especially the internet. In my opinion, the people involved in the Mayfair Mall riot Mayfair Mall would have done something disruptive whether or not facebook existed. After all, there are many ways to communicate and plan events such as email and cellphones.
ReplyDeleteI think that first of all, young people don't have any/or enough construtive things to do with their time. Second, how could anybody be so moronic to post things on the internet that they think SHOULD be private? I think that if this is the kind of stuff they come up with, law enforcement has the right to explore every body's page; its' a matter of public safety. I tried facebook once and was appalled at the conversations and pictures that were posted. It angered me so much that I immediately removed my profile. There were people coming out of the woodwork requesting that we be friends. I don't use that word so freely, because "everybody is NOT your friend" and in these cases, we had not heard from each other in years; I believe for good reason. Whether by facebook, email, cellphones or IM's, America's young people need to spend their time more wisely.
ReplyDeleteAlthough there are other ways the that the teens who caused the riot could have communicated with each other like email and the use of cellphones, they used a social networking site, which was much easier and faster. Instead of texing everyone or emailing them all they had to do was write on their status and hundreds of others could see it within seconds. Also i do agree that facebook should be used to communicate with friends and family or even just to see the advertisments, but accepting anyone as friends on facebook is invading your privacy because someone you may not know, may know alot more about you than they should.
ReplyDeleteI believe that police should have every right to investigae facebook pages. It is the matter of public and societal safety. If facebook is so missused there should be some way to control the activities on the site. People that are not guilty of immoral behavior or malice plans should have no reason to worry if their profiles will be viewed by the police. I think it is outragueous that teenagers do this; this behavior ruins it for everyone else. Why can't people act like normal, civilized human beings?
ReplyDeleteI am reminded of another rioting incident where students sent text messages to each other in order to rush a store near their school. I do not think that it is right for the police to be on Facebook looking into someone's privacy however I do think that there should be a requirement on Facebook that only lets those who have high school diplomas onto the site. I say this because I think high school kids need to be focused on graduating and nothing else until after they walk across the stage. I agree with the comment left by Jackie as well.
ReplyDeleteFacebook is getting out of hand and i believe police should have access to it. I don't think its fair for people that don't use FB as a way to create chaos but that's the price we pay. I do agree that kids need to be worried about school and other positive things instead of FB and other social networks.
ReplyDeleteI had heard something about an incident at mayfair but really didnt know the full details until now. Its amazing that these kids blame what happened on boredness. This incident probably started off as a joke and some individuals actually believed it and showed up who knows. But i do believe that social networks are to blame because it makes it easier to communicate with thousands of people at once. I dont fully agree that the police should have the right to acess face book accounts, its an invasion of privacy.
ReplyDeleteI think that no matter how hard they try to band teenagers from mayfair mall it not going to happen. They tried this before by putting an curfew on the mall times, and said minors under 18 is not premmited in mall without adult after a certin time. They might can stop a few but a whole crowd will be impossible. What they going to do hire extra gurads just to keep unwanted teens. If they band teens from mayfair want ther sales go down?
ReplyDeleteI believe the police have a right to monitor antisocial activities on the social media sites. besides it's a public forum, there's no expectation of privacy.We pay taxes to policing departments to stop such wanton destruction from teens or anyone for that matter. Placing a restiction on teens coming in the mall is probably temporary, if not, oh well.
ReplyDeleteMost importantly, censorship is not the answer. being made awear that your status or infomation that's aired on the social media are subject to public view should get the attention of the next group that attempts a show of social rebellion.
I just feel that it is unfortunate that people use social networking sites for inappropriate reasons. I think that is there is nothing wrong with social networking, but when people abuse the use of it, it makes social networking look bad.
ReplyDeleteI wasn't surprised to hear that the riots were planned out on facebook. I remember the text messaging riot as well. I just think it's sad that this was done out of boredom. Milwaukee used to have a lot of hangouts that got shut down because of people like this. Today, it's just faster for teens to communicate with others on these social networking sites.
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