Being Online: The Good and The Bad

I read an article named “Armed, Online and Dangerous” and thought to myself, is this article talking about online criminals that are up to no good? Well, as I read the article I was half right. These people on the article, they are not criminals, but their intentions were bad.
This article is about how harmful the internet can be. How can this be possible? You cannot kill a person online, so how dangerous can it be? The idea of popularity comes into play. The more people who visit your blog or uploaded videos, its mean the more famous you are. This is especially so for teenagers, who want all the attention they can get. The answer is to post attention seeking items online, the more shocking the better.
Remember the incident when a teenage girl was found drown in a canal? Her schoolmate wrote in her blog that the girl deserved it. Shocking? This is what keeps the ratings high.
This is not the only case. Teens have been trying to seek more ‘fame’ by posting videos of themselves beating up others. You call this fame? I call it shame.
The root of all this comes from mass media and technology. They are powerful tools but if we use them wrongly they become harmful weapons. Look at the teenagers out there, I think 7 out of 10 of them have handphones capable of filming videos. Just one wrong move from one of them and we can expect more shocking videos. Cyber bullies have outcast the traditional ones. They beat you up and threaten to post your videos online.
Well, this is life. But why have teenagers become so self-centred and fail to care about other people’s feelings? I think there is something lacking in us, that is moral sense.