I am sure you have already heard about the “dark side” of YouTube: filming speeding and racing and then posting it, staging and filming “jackass” stunts and posting it, and also the really Klassy-with-a-K “school kids film fights then put online.”
“Widespread access to mobile phones and YouTube for school children is fuelling a new bullying boom. Students are increasingly using mobile phones to film violence and bullying and then posting the material on the internet.” Via Nine MSN
While not as bad a Goth Emo Romantic Suicide Poetry, these fight films are just the raunchy price of citizen-generated-media. Imagine the awful things these kids might be doing if they weren’t doing productive things like making winning fight videos for YouTube, eh? A frightening though, indeed.
