When you don’t have anybody to tell your seacrets, maybe a diary is the only place where you can confess seacrets. Some people seem that they can’t help giving away their seacrets in diaries online as well.

In Mixi, a Japanese SNS site, administrator caught many offline crimes posted on users diaries.
They have found crimes such as ;free train ride, refund fraud, shoplifting, drunk driving, and driving without a licence.
Offenders usually don’t regret what they did, indeed, they brag about their wrong doings.
Some even encourage readers to commit the same crimes.

Since they still have a private image of diaries, they write whatever they want irresponsively.
However, online world is open to the public.
It is so foolish that they don’t think anybody can access their diaries and how easily people identify them.

July selection for Myspace Suicide case began on Nov. 18, Tuesday.

Megan Merier, a Missouri 13 -year-old girl was found  hanged herself in her bedroom on Oct 16, 2006.

She had been suffered from depression and attension defict disorder, but what drove her to commit a suiside was abusive messgaes on My space from her online friend, a teenage boy named Josh.

However, the after Megan commited suiside, her parents found Josh didn’t really excist.

Josh’s profile was fake created by a group of adults including Lori Drew.

Pretending to be Josh, she send messeges that says that Megan is a bad person, and the world would be better without Megan.

Drew’s daughter and Megan used to be friends.

Drew says that she created Josh because she wanted Megan to know how she was mean to her own daughter.

When I heard about this news, I was suprised at how Drew and other adults who bullied Megan were inmature.

I’ve heard many stories about teenagers who commited suisides because they were bullied by other teenagers, but not by a group of adults.
Drew is 47year-old. It is awful that old people bullied a helpless girl like Megan.

After I read this news, I thought about  how suiside stories are covered in Japan.

The Kcal9  coverage of Megan’s story objectively told what exactly happened to Megan and
how Megan’s parents claim damages against Drew and other adults.

If the same kind of news were distributed in Japan, the story would sound different.

Many people in Japan still tend to see commiting a suiside as an honorble act although most of them know it is wrong.

Media would realize a story and talk about how the victim protected his or her honor by commiting a suiside.

The strange way of media coverage became an issue in Japan a couple of years ago.
Since media was making suicide from bulling sounds better, their coverage encouraged other depressed teenagers in the similar situations to commite suisides, and lot of them killed themselves.

It seems very hard to take a decent stand to cover the news with considering both audience and fragile teenagers…

http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/Evidence-of-13-Year-Olds-Suicide-Can-Be-Used-in-Myspace-Hoax-Trial.html

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   When I was browsing Cosmo magazine, I came across this ad with black snake. 

  The ad is so strange to me to see in such a feminine magazine. It seems to be so sudden after I started with the warm pink front cover and go through all those girly fashion ads. I see it is trying to sell their cool, bold image here, but I wonder if it’s really appealing to those girls who love to read about relationships, fashion tips, and celeblities. I guess they would rather like to see pop, colorful pictures instead of this glossy snake skin.

    An article in the latest issue of Time magazine talks about how to deal with online bad reputations about you.  Now anybody who has Internet access can post comments on anything; stores, movies, books, and  people. Since information on the internet can be from anywhere, most people know it can be wrong, especially when it is just somebody’s comment. However, it is not easy to be skeptical all the time, at least for me. I don’t believe everything, but I get some influence from what I find on the Internet. Karl Idsvoog, a journalism professor at Kent State University in Ohio,  got insluting comments on Rate My Professor, and fought back. If I read a negative comment on Rate My Professor, I don’t believe everything, but I still get a negative impression of the teacher.     

  What if somebody talks bad about you on the internet? It is kind of scary to think how quickly your image can be spoiled. It is also going to be hard to track down those people who hurt you. It is so strange to me how online world makes offline world more complicated.  There is certainly real people who put something on the Internet, but what they put can be totally unreal.

  For example, I have an account in Japanese SNS, Mixi, which is just like Myspace. Once I found one of my classmates from highschool and sent a message to her. However, she didn’t answer to me because she was pretending to be a different person there. She didn’t want me to disturb her fiction world. Internet is changing how people interact to get along with each other.

    The car industry really seems to be in a trouble because of recent extremely high gas prices.  A lot of advertisements for cars are usually seen everywhere, on magazines, webpages, or billboards. But now, there are less ads for cars around.

   In fact, the latest issue of Time magazine had only one page of ad for a car manufacturing company. The magazine had seven pages of ads for car companies and other related businesses ( insurance company/ tire company). While car industry is having a hard time, I found a familiar logo in the magazine. It says “M” in a white circle… Yes, it is Metro.

  It is probably the best time for this transportation authortity. The ad said “solution” under the logo. Now they have a phrase which has much more inpact than “eco-friendly.”

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