Social media is a two-way street that gives you the ability to communicate. Social media today is very powerful and can effect many people's lives. Technology can be used in many ways especially to communicate. Here is a couple of situations where social media altered these people's lives.
1.) Amanda Todd:
Amanda Todd was a tenth grade student who commited suicide due to bullying. When she was in seventh grade she used video chat to meet new people. This one guy convinced her to show her breast to him. He later threatened her that he would expose the picture if she didnt give him a "show". Soon after that, police notified Todd that the picture had gone viral. Todd became very scared, depressed and her family eventually had to move. A year later the guy reappeared by creating a facebook page with the topless photo of Todd as the profile picture. Amanda started to consume drugs and alcohol. She shared a intimate chemistry with a guy who had a girlfriend. The girlfriend found out and she and her group of friends attacked Todd. Amanda Todd was seriously teased and bullied in school. She had no friends and her depression became too much for her to bare. She attempted to kill herself by drinking bleach but was immediately rushed to the hospital to have her stomach pumped. Her parents moved once again to start over fresh. It was too late to start over for Todd, her mental state had worsen once she recieved abusive messages. She start to mutilate her body. She overdose and spent time in the hospital. Todd was teased at school after that for having low grades and a learning disability. Prior to her death, Todd posted a video on YouTube in which she used a series of flash cards to tell of her experience of being blackmailed, bullied, and physically assaulted. Todd was found dead in her home October, 10, 2012 around 6:00pm. She commited suicide by hanging herself. The video went viral after her death.
2.) Chris Brown and Rihanna:
Singer Brown was arrested for allegedly assaulting Rihanna back in 2009. The former couple got into a physical fight in a car on their way to the Grammys with pictures later emerging of Rihanna's swollen face. Officers Blanca Lopez and Rebecca Reyes faced the sack from the Los Angeles Police Department for allegedly leaking the photos to TMZ.com. Brown was found guilty of assault and was sentenced to five years of probation, one year of domestic violence counseling, and six months of community service. He was also slapped with a restraining order, which was lifted last year.
3.) R.kelly:
On February 3, 2002, a video allegedly showing Kelly engaging in sex with, and urinating on, an allegedly underage woman surfaced. The story, which was released by an unknown source, was sent to the Chicago Sun-Times, the newspaper that broke the story. Kelly denied that he was the man in the video. Bootleg copies of that tape became widely available on the black market and over file sharing networks.In June 2002, Kelly was indicted in Chicago on 21 counts of having sex with a minor, which were later reduced to soliciting a minor for child pornagraphy seven counts of videotaping the acts, and seven counts of producing child pornography.That same month, authorities searched Kelly's house in Davenport, Florida. Officers found an unusual amount of commercially manufactured and distributed adult porn in a room. During the search officers also obtained pictures of an allegedly underage woman on a digital camera – wrapped in a towel in a duffel bag. Kelly was arrested in January 2003 on those charges. In March 2004, these charges were dropped due to a lack of probable cause for the search warrants.
After a number of delays, on October 27, 2006, a Cook County, Illinois court hearing for pre-trial motions set the date of the actual trial to February 7, 2007. On the date of the trial, Kelly's lawyer informed the court that his client was unable to attend because he was "undergoing surgery for a burst appendix". He also announced that Kelly was "in good condition and was expected to be released from the hospital later in the day." Kelly's attorney stated that Kelly (who pleaded not guilty) would be in attendance on the next trial date of February 21, 2007.It had previously been announced by the court that the videotape that allegedly showed Kelly performing sex acts with an underage woman would be publicly shown as evidence in the trial. The trial, however, was delayed due to disputes over when the tape was made and to give medical recuperation time to the sitting judge following a fall resulting in broken bones. Later the case was set for a September 17 date. It took more than six months for the case to go to trial. Jury selection began on May 9, 2008, and the trial officially started on May 20 with opening statements from the prosecution and defense. After two weeks, the prosecution's case wrapped on June 3 while the defense's wrapped six days later, on June 9. After less than a day of deliberations, on June 13, 2008, a Chicago jury found Kelly not guilty of all 14 counts.
4.) Denise Helms:
Denise Helms takes it back.
The Turlock, Calif., woman who made headlines for her contreversial facebook post last week is now rethinking her actions.Frustrated by President Barack Obama's reelection, the 22-year-old woman voiced her displeasure in an angry post that was quickly picked up by national news outlets. “Another 4 years of this (N-word),” Helms wrote. “Maybe he will get assassinated this term.”
Helms told Fox 40 that her profile had been set to private, and her mother said that an ex-boyfriend of Helms're-posted a screen shot of the updated status on twitter, allowing everyone on the Internet to see the comments.The backlash was swift. Helms lost her job as a store manager at a local Cold Stone Creamery, and the Modesto/Stanislaus NAACP contacted Cold Stone Creamery officials about the incident. According to the Modesto Bee, the store received about 20 angry messages about Helms on Thursday.When pressed about the post, Helms said she was not a racist.“It does [sound like I'm a racist],” Helms said, “but I am not. That’s what everyone’s been telling me, ‘You know, what you said sounded so racist,’ and it does, and you know, I take it back. If I could erase what I said, I would.”
5.) Amber Cole:
Amber Cole is a 14-year-old female student who became the subject of a Worldwide Trending Topic on Twitter on Sunday, October 16th, 2011, after being featured in a viral video showing her performing a sexual act on one of her male classmates after school. While we don’t know the full story behind the situation, there are rumors floating around that the boy Amber is pleasuring in the video was her “first love” and she “lost her virginity to him.” Apparently, the boy broke her heart, and she was trying hard to “win him back.”He told her in order to get him back, she had to perform oral sex on him. So Amber, being the young, naive, teenage girl that she was, fell for it, and did as requested.But little did she know, someone was actually recording the sex act, and not only that, but they took her humiliation a step further and posted it on the Internet for all to see.Once the video hit the net, it was a “hit” among Internet users who shared the clip, which could be considered child pornography considering the age of the subjects in it, and before long, “Amber Cole” was a Worldwide Trending topic, with people calling her disgusting names and basically slandering her image.Parents, bloggers and others are voicing their concern for Cole alleging that the video contains child pornographic material and sharing it could potentially be a criminal act. The person or persons responsible for uploading the explicit clip have yet to be identified, and the date and time at which the video was recorded is unknown.
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