One of the categories I decided to look at was interesting news stories. There are blogs that are on news sites which allow people to comment and talk about articles. The reason why I decided to pick this topic is because I don't really watch the news while I'm at school, so I thought it would be good to look through them and post some that I found interesting for others to read and comment on too.
After looking through different websites/blogs for news articles I found ABC news to have the most organized articles http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/Blogs/ . After looking through the articles I found this one to be the most interesting http://blogs.abcnews.com/hearsay/2010/06/text-message-sent-before-murdersuicide.html . With the use of social media, a text was sent to the childrens' babysitter to get them out of the house before the father killed the mother. I thought this was interesting because people are always talking about how bad we as a society have become with all of this technology and text messaging. If you look at this story it actually shows how important of a role technology played and saved the lives of 2 innocent children.
The purpose of this is to show that social media isn't always a bad thing. I think it is more directed to older people to read because it allows them to understand that not all technology causes bad things to happen and it can actually save lives.
Chelsea,
ReplyDeleteI am the same way! When I am at school, I never watch the news because I am running around like a chicken with it's head cut-off. I usually look on iGoogle for the top stories to keep me partially informed. Reading the article on ABC's site, http://blogs.abcnews.com/hearsay/2010/06/text-message-sent-before-murdersuicide.html shocked me the first time I heard about it, and yet again! It is like I never heard it before- I got chills and my stomach churned. I had heard this story this summer and I could not believe that someone would do something so unbelievable. To go to the extent of killing your own wife, the mother of your children and then kill yourself-- to leave your children with no parents at all is disturbing. On a day-to-day basis, we forget how crazy some of the people are in our society, until instances like this! People of the public are the obvious audience because they need to be informed about what people are capable of, sane or not.