I originally sent this to Amy, but I thought some of the aclss might like to read this as well.
As I have been writing my first paper on the Twitter article I found this new news article amusing. Well... not that what happened was amusing, but my biggest problem with the article is it did not argue both sides. We are social being! We need to be social and if we are confined, as many teenagers are now, to communicating through only these internet applications such as Twiiter, FaceBook or Myspace - than they are forced to become very dependant on them to sustain the level of social mentality they require to function.. which leads to addiction. And now here is a 17 year old girl who died in Romania because of her addiction to Twitter. (And also a lack of common sense and most likely a product of poor parenting.) So this girl was "Tweeting" in the bathtub... with her laptop! She had been using it so much that the battery was depleted. So she went to plug it in with her wet hand. She was electrocuted and died :(
http://news.softpedia.com/news/17-Year-Old-Girl-Dies-Electrocuted-While-Twittering-114776.shtml
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That's truly sad. I only wonder where this might lead to. I wonder if it would lead to some kind of trial. I mean, when that woman was burned by hot McDonald's coffee, she was able to sue and now McDonald's(as well as places) now puts CAUTION-CONTENTS HOT! on all their cups and such. Now, we may see social networking sites with a warning CAUTION-KNOWN TO CAUSE ADDICTION AND CAN BE HAZARDOUS TO HEALTH.
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