~T
Thursday, December 8, 2011
Final Week #1
This class exposed me to a plethora of interesting and fascinating concepts. One of the readings I found most interesting came from Jordan's "A Virtual Death and a Real Dilemma." Swenson's blog about an imaginary daughter dying caught my interest immediately; I wasn't so interested in her 'lie,' but instead in the amount of people attracted to the blog! Thousands of people were concerned about a girl they had never met before, but they felt connected with her because they had be interacting with her blog online. This event exemplified the possibilities of online fraud, internet security, internet communities, and questions of morality online; this was so interesting to me because I never see people as passionate about strangers through face-to-face interactions, yet online, these people seemed to care a great deal about this young girl! Another aspect of this dilemma I found interesting was the fact that if skeptics of Swenson's blog weren't so adamant in figuring out the true identity of the person posting the blogs, there would have be no dramatic after-effects.
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Ugh! This reading made me mad! How could someone lie about being sick and dying? It's a cruel trick to play on the community. It's nice to know that there are people out there who will care and have concern for someone they don't know... but it's also unsettling to know that there are people out there who will do just about anything for attention! I guess no one questioned the blog in the beginning because who would have ever thought that someone would lie like that?
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