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Saturday, February 27, 2010

Should we post photographs and videos of bad behaviour on the Internet?

We should not post photographs and videos of bad behaviour on the Internet.

Try thinking how the person feels when photographs and videos of him/her are posted on the Internet. Why not, put yourself in the person's shoes, how would you feel? You would feel that your privacy is invaded and would not be able to show your face to the world. For an instance, someone posted a photograph of you sleeping like a pig on the train. Would you be angry or would you be laughing at your own photograph? Or can I say other people laughing and criticizing at you, saying how ugly you look, or how fake you look when pretending to sleep and not offering the seat to those people who needed the seat more than you.

But of course, posting photographs and videos of bad behaviour may not be a bad thing. It is like an 'announcement' to everyone to not do what the person is doing in the photograph, and a 'warning' that if you did what the person did, your ugly truth would be posted too. For example, when someone posted a video or a photograph about a person who cut his/her nails in the train. Readers would think that it looks ugly, and if they do it, they would look ugly too. Therefore, readers would not do it and also spread it to their peers. Soon, more and more people would know and lesser people would do those foolish things in the train.

In conclusion, people should have basic courtesy to at least not do foolish things like cutting nails, pretending to sleep, and oblivious to the surroundings. These are common mistakes commuters make when they are taking public transport, and forgetting all about courtesy. Therefore, people should have basic courtesy, and bring it everywhere they go.