Monday, November 20, 2006

myspace... giving aggregious anonymity the keys to our ethical future.

I spent the last 2 hours reading the seedy underbelly of one of my student's myspace links. He's a fairly normal kid without too much going on, doesn't say much... he just kinda' comes and does his thing and then leaves. I've been pretty much of the, invite him and let him make the next move to come hang with us... I wonder if I should change my approach and become a little more aggressive.
As I read his facebook, I saw his myspace link and the subsequent name (which I'm not going to mention). I don't really know what to think about it. It was actually disgusting and gross. It was the unmonitored, unadulterated mind of a 16 year old boy with no filter, no fear, no remorse, because all the evil that's said in private has to stay in private right?
What's sad is that one day he's going to realize how juvenile all this nonsense has been, and he's going to regret the words that he wrote in private, and then one day all those words he wrote in private will be made public or else they'll eat him from the inside out. They'll destroy him, rotting him from inside. I seriously doubt he's done a tenth of the things he says he's done, but these are his aspirations and it makes me wonder if his change of mood is due to a new found look into the world of heroin and pot.
Sadly, he will go on, unchallenged and anonymous -- precisely what he'll want. He'll let his twisted fantasies work themselves out in his head over and over again, alone at his computer and then one day he'll finally get bold and do something about them. My friend, on that day your sins will find you. What was hidden will become known, and all that your anonymity was used to protect will prove to destroy all the ivory towers you've built up to protect the evil that lurks at the center.
That truly saddens me.

1 Comments:

At 9:31 AM , Blogger Joel Jones said...

Remember, though, he probably already has your blog, and mySpace and Facebook account as well...

 

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