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The Not so Social Network

Social Networking or is it not so social networking. The world has never been smaller or, should I say, connected as it is today. You can share things with millions of people at a go of a button. They say social media has given people the power. While this is quite true in many cases but there is a darker side to this thing also. So many times I see people put stuff on the internet that shouldn't have been there in the first place. Like the case of the girl who put her Halloween pic dressed as the Boston Marathon Bomb Victim. That post earned her quite a bad reputation. She got death threats, hate comments and what not. She even got fired from her job. If she didn’t had put it on the internet, maybe the worst thing that would have happened was that she would have been scolded by her friends but the social network messed things up for her. She didn't want to hurt anyone's feelings but people judge by what they see and what she had shown was not good. Whatever is on the...