

(Pictures taken from http://www.tnp.sg/content/act-cute-facebook-quarrel-turns-violent)
A few days ago, I was reading an article in The New Paper. It is about something that happened on the popular social networking site, Facebook. So the story goes like this.
A picture of this girl, whom we shall call Jane, was posted on Facebook. Another girl, whom we shall call Mary, saw that picture, and commented, "Don't act cute." This provoked Jane and resulted in the exchange of vulgarities between Jane and Mary. Mary then rounded up some of her friends and they went to bully Jane which ended up in her being injured and being sent to hospital.I'm not siding with either one of them, but I feel that Mary shouldn't have said such an insensitive thing. On the other hand, Jane should have kept her cool and ignore the comment. If she wanted to tell Mary off, maybe she could have used a more pleasant tone and not spew vulgarities at once. IT TOOK JUST THREE WORDS.I conclude that social networking sites may be helpful at times as mentioned but in this case, it was anything but helpful. We should keep our content in social networking sites/blogs appropriate for everyone.Or maybe we should just use technology for learning purposes. It will be safer for everyone that way. Hmm. What do you think?Let me just thank my lucky stars that I do not have a Facebook account. :)