Social networks and video stream sites MySpace and YouTube have been getting a bad rap for the several incidents of teen beating which were to be and have been posted. The flack these sites have been getting are because youngsters nowadays have a venue to herald their 'mightiness' all over the world. When you open any of the 2 sites you notice that visits, synopsis even ratings for videos are there for the voyeurship (pardon the pun). In each box at the right of the YouTube you see the words “more from” and “related videos”, these indicate the other vid's posted by the same member and other vid's posted in the same category. If you type the words “school beatings” in the search box you get a choice of any video out of a 1,010 beatings. Some vid's are skits, cartoon and game beating but most of it shows how an anonymous kid from any part of the world getting the lights beaten out o them by adults, other teens or by their peers and so-called “friends”.

Makes me wonder, at this point is how far has technology influenced people and corrupted young ones?
Not that shutting down both sites would be the solution, aren't there ways of restricting posting of videos and keeping track of IP Addresses that log in? Giving access for the web to be used as a venue for violence and not for preserving human rights is really the problem here. Shouldn't YoutTube and MySpace have  the responsibility to blow the whistle on members with a violent streak in them or the taste of violence in them? Technology shouldn't hide behind freedom of speech, because the constitution also has a section where everyone's rights must be upheld first and foremost.