The first thing I wanted to talk about with the movie is about how people get in trouble for things they put on their myspace or facebook. This happened in my high school as well as most high schools in America, people put incriminating pictures on their profile and got caught. Despite popular belief in my school, people were caught because they were looking at eachothers profiles durring class and teachers saw these pictures (the dean didn't just go through every student profile every day). Part of this problem is because many people think that if that put a picture online its somewhat private (verry much the opposite). People can get in trouble if they're on sports teams because many high school teams make you sign a contract saying you won't engage in that activity outside of school. You can probably get in trouble for underage drinking if they can prove you had alcolohol in the picture or drug use if they see you using drugs. People also put videos of themselves doing drugs on youtube as well (so it's not limited to online profiles).
The second part I want to talk about was online predators. Statistically you have a higher chance of dying in a car accident than being solisited for sex online. I think people amplify this problem with shows like "How to Catch a Predator" in which they get some guy to try to meet up with an under aged girl. I make the analogy to the news in which crime isn't as high as well all think it is, they just shove in our faces far more than they used to. I do think we should still educate our children about this problem, but I would be more conserned about other evils.
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