Social Media and Privacy: When Rape Goes Viral

     It is amazing how quickly information can grow through social media. In only a matter of seconds a post can be viewed and shared by hundreds of thousands of people worldwide. The only problem with social media is once information has been shared it is usually public forever. After reading When Rape Goes Viral, we see both the positive and negative impacts of social media. I understand by publicizing the event it made people more aware and allowed for them to easily discover the predator, but at the cost of another persons life. The victim didn’t have control of who saw the tragic event or how quickly it spread. This can cause drastic changes in someone’s life and even lead to suicide as we read in the article. Information spread through social media is not worth a person’s life. The victims should be able to decide what remains private or public because they are the lives that are being impacting the most.