Anti-Social Networking

After watching last nights documentary 'Anti-Social Networking', I feel disgusted at the human race. The lengths that some people will go to in order to make someone else's life miserable is awful.

The first part of the documentary showed the family of a schoolboy who had hung himself after school bullies left nasty  comments on his Facebook page leaving him feeling too scared to go to school. The children are young, yes, but they no the difference between right and wrong, and I hope that they never get over how cruel they were.

As if this wasn't bad enough, a webpage was then set up by the boys brother for people to leave loving messages and their condolences. Instead, people left vicious comments about how he deserved to die and concocted mocking pictures of the boy hanging. These are known as 'trolls'; the people that search the news and internet for people (children in particular) that have died, and then they go about leaving horrible messages.

So where have the days gone when social networking was just that, social networking? The sites were set up to allow friends to communicate easily, for people to add photographs and share their life with the cyber-world. Now, it seems its primary use is for people to make sarcastic, childish and unnecessary comments aimed at people they don't like, and it's absolutely ridiculous.