Murder videos on facebook - acceptable?

hedonist

Thirty Bills Unpaid wrote:

Couple things:

Warnings almost serve as promotional tools. They do not produce the effect people think they might.

Phones have become very purposeful. I like my son to have a phone for many reasons. My daughter is 12 and she doesn't have one yet, but there have been many moments when we wished she had one. She wants one, but this is not the reason why she will get one soon.

Kids are going to come across these types of things- phone or no phone.

I don't have Facebook and never will.

On your last point, me neither. Nor Twitter! Just not my thing.

As to the warnings, you may be right; I don't know how others are affected by them. For me, at the least within this forum, I've made a point of avoiding links to videos of slaughterhouses, animal abuse/neglect and the like (and I wish I'd never watched the footage of the young soldier in England getting hacked in the street).

I know times have changed, are ever-changing, but while the phones can be useful, are they a necessity? And if so, can't they be used or customized so as not to have exposure to images beyond their years and understanding and supposed innocence?

This is where the idealistic side of me comes out, and it frustrates me because I know it's unrealistic, dammit.

Hugh Freaking Dillon

know1 wrote:

facepollution wrote:

hedonist wrote:

Why on earth would a child have or need Facebook?

Why wouldn't any responsible parent monitor what their child is viewing online?

Well you only have to be 13 to have a facebook account, and it seems most kids these days have smart phones, making it harder for parents to track I guess.

That's not tough to police at all. Don't let them have a smart phone.

easier said than done. of course you don't have to get them a smart phone (which my wife and I will have to address in a few years). but 98% of their friends will have one. so they'll just watch it on their friend's mobile.

peacefrompaul

I never much understood that policy when I can just as well see them freely on twitter.

ajedigecko

I watched faces of death.

facepollution

So I bit the bullet and closed down my account, one man protest, I don't really care - any person or company that deems a woman's brutal murder more acceptable than a naked body is not one that I am prepared to support.

Thirty Bills Unpaid

facepollution wrote:

So I bit the bullet and closed down my account, one man protest, I don't really care - any person or company that deems a woman's brutal murder more acceptable than a naked body is not one that I am prepared to support.

Lead from where you are!

hedonist

facepollution wrote:

So I bit the bullet and closed down my account, one man protest, I don't really care - any person or company that deems a woman's brutal murder more acceptable than a naked body is not one that I am prepared to support.

Good on ya for walking the walk (so to speak).

Rocket Surgeon

facepollution wrote:

So I bit the bullet and closed down my account, one man protest, I don't really care - any person or company that deems a woman's brutal murder more acceptable than a naked body is not one that I am prepared to support.

I did too after being sent the link to the CNN news article. I blasted it to all my contacts on crackbook and was utterly amazed by the lack of response. Only 2 people cared. The rest felt what they got from crackbook to be worth more than moral vigilance.

As for the kid comments. Our children are given increasingly more access online, my daughter is even being directed to upload essays onto a google docs account. She has a google account I didn't know about, multiple emails I was unaware of, a Facebook profile (now deactivated) that I did not know about, and all was being accessed either on friends' phones or devices at school or at the computer lab at school. At home her laptop is locked down and password protected and parental controlled all over. We don't even have tv. But she'll find what she wants elsewhere. I don't want her to grow up with her head in the sand, but I did want to protect her innocence as long as I could. Unfortunately it wasn't long.

Godfather.

facepollution wrote:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-24608499

Apparently facebook now think it's OK for videos of things like decapitations to be shared, because they believe that people should be able watch it and 'condemn it'. Nevermind the psychological effect watching something like that could have on a child. I know some people might say that that kind of stuff is available all over the net, but you would have to actively search for it to view it, which is not the same as a video popping up on your news feed and clicking out of morbid curiosity - as we all know, you can't un-see some things.

Secondly, where is the respect for the poor victim? Shit like this gives me a really heavy heart, that a person could do that to another human being is hard enough to believe, but for people all around the world to watch their last agonizing breaths.......

I've just read a news update whilst typing this, saying that facebook have agreed to now post warnings with such videos and not make them available to children. They also said that they will remove content if it believes violence is being glorified. But who are they to decide whether people are glorifying it or not? I'd wager that the majority of people are clicking out of morbid curiosity, the same as they would any of the gore sites out there, but this way they can some how justify it because it's on their news feed.

agreed ! no need for that kind of crap.

Godfather.