This video started out with a few guys talking and then a guy screaming which got my attention at first, even if it wasn’t the main part of the video. I did think that this was a very interesting video, it was about this forum on the TED website that is completely anonymous and the information goes away after a while which is why the posters can and do say anything want. Also, since the forum renews itself all the time there is always a new conversation on it. On this forum there are over seven million monthly visitors, seven hundred thousand posts per day, and there are forty-eight individual boards now. It started with only one board and was made because the maker found a Japanese website with this format. He made it for the use of his friends and it spread into a very popular site for large number of anonymous visitors. The speaker also talks about some of the problems of the internet because you are always allowed to say whatever you want but it is crossing the line sometimes when you think that you can do whatever you want. His example about this is was when a guy had made a video of his self abusing his cat and had put it on youtube, and many people had a major problem with this so they investigated the video. Within a day they knew his name, and within two days he was arrested. This is also a big topic about his website because the forum is completely anonymous which is a good thing and a bad thing he says.
The first thing that this video made me think about is how such a widely popular website was started by a little thing as it did. Facebook was the same way and it is one of the most popular sites today. This goes to show you that if you have an idea and put it to use, anything can come from it. The second thing that it made me think of was the issue of being anonymous on the internet and how it can be great and very bad at the same time. I believe that you are allowed to say whatever you choose to because of the first amendment but you should be held responsible for what you say, and when you are on a site that is completely anonymous there will be very crude and ridiculous things said because there is no way for anyone to know that you are the one who said it. One good thing about being anonymous is that the ideas and thoughts of people could be pure because they don’t have to worry about anyone making fun of them or judging them in anyway. This most likely makes the most interesting conversations of any forum but it could be very ignorant in some cases. It is the right of anyone to go to these sites if they choose to and that is one thing that makes having some rights great. All in all I think that being anonymous can be a good or a bad thing, it just depends on how you use it.
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