Creating Victims And Then Blaming Them (re: the Girls Around Me app)

[jeff47]

5. I think this commentary is a little off-target

Consider what these statements about education imply. What is the result the educators want after these people have been educated?

To realize what posting information about yourself publicly really means.

And what if those educated choose to continue their behavior?

Then they're making an educated decision, instead of not knowing just what they were broadcasting.

What of those who decide to live in public? The camgirls we have met? The ones that share their lives with abandon?

Personally, I think they need some psychological counseling, but they're free to do so.

While a person 'living publicly' isn't 'fair game', this editorial kinda goes too far in considering that the only issue.

IMO, the anger should be directed at social media sites that make it easy to be public, and hard to be private. Killing "Girls Around Me" doesn't suddenly make the information disappear. Facebook and Foursquare still display it. It will just take a few minutes to manually put the two together. And cheering the death of that app while not educating people, because that would be "victim blaming", means people are being far more public than they realize.

They are not able to make the educated decision to be public. Teaching them isn't blaming the victim. It's letting them choose what they wish to do.