Rest in peace Amanda. Bullied Teen Commits Suicide After Posting Last-Ditch Cry for Help on YouTube

[johnlucas]

36. Not just on those who harrassed her but the blackmailing stalker himself

And I keep making the point that the larger issue of the increasingly seamless internet needs to seriously be looked at.
Everything spreads everywhere in Web 2.0 land & we're not ready for where web 2.0's gonna take us.

Google wants your mobile phone number just to log into YouTube now.
They SAY it's a failsafe just in case you lose your password.
No, it's a way to track you & obliterate yet another social circle boundary.
Soon every phone call you make can be automatically transcribed & posted all over the Google Network.
Gmails can be blasted everywhere, what you say on YouTube is automatically shared every person you ever met through any Google account.
And if you don't want it to be that way you have to OPT OUT.
Who asked me if I wanted to be Opted IN?

By the time you find out you have already unwittingly shared info you meant for certain eyes to see.
And once it's out there, it's out there.
Google archives everything & it can always be searched.

It's a Brave New World not 1984.
People give it over willingly. You don't have to force them.
Facebook WISHES it could be like Google has become.
They have one sector Google wants to own.
One day I bet that Google will buy out Facebook & when that happens...forget about it.

Meanwhile kids not understanding the ramifications of this current internet world go online naïve to the intentions of strangers & the owners of the web services they use.
One mistake could be permanent & if you can't live with that mistake...

Amanda Todd shouldn't have felt the way she felt.
Web 2.0 shouldn't have this kind of power that stalkers & bullies can use to traumatize a child.
John Lucas