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Ales2:
Disturbing. Parents lost custody of two kids who went back the biological Mom after posting so called "prank" videos berating their kids on Youtube. 

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/03/us/maryland-couple-youtube-prank-videos.html?mc=aud_dev&mcid=keywee&mccr=domdesk&kwp_0=408202&kwp_4=1500802&kwp_1=653096

I'm glad this problem is getting the attention it deserves.

Hopalong:
The internet, for all its positives (like this place!) has simultaneously unleashed monstrous mindlessness. I found this story so profoundly sad. It seems a perfect metaphor for many things happening in the culture.

Twoapenny:
Yes I agree.  People seem to have lost their concept of humanity and think in terms of likes or views now.  There have been numerous reports in the papers here about people recording accidents or dangerous incidents instead of going to help, and then putting often quite disturbing footage online, without the consent of the people involved.  There was a similar story of a child abuse video doing the rounds on Facebook, people sharing it and being very vocal about how disgusting it was but not actually doing anything about it.  Can you imagine being that child in twenty years time and finding out that a film of you being beaten as a baby was viewed by thousands of people but no-one rescued you?  Equally those people in the article were thinking only of the views they would get, not the harm they could be doing to their kids (or the fact that they might lose them).  There does seem to be a gap between the real world and the virtual world for some people now.  It is sad.

Bettyanne:
The video I watched of father smashing the kid's  game.....I think it was not funny as this man believed it was.  That is sick and so sad for this young boy to experience an adult pulling a so call joke on his son. 

I can remember my dad when I was around 13 telling me he didn't go pick up furniture that was being given us by a friend of my mothers.  And when I walked up the stairs and there was the furniture not the extent this kid experience his dad breaking his game....but I still remember how upset I felt .....it wasn't funny to me.  And all these years I still feel it...this kid will have a hard time getting past this too.....and then being removed and returned to his maternal mother....wow that will be some adjustment too!
so so sad

JustKathy:
This is really disturbing, but as bad as it is, at least it blew up in their faces and the children were removed from the home. Still, those kids will have emotional damage that may be with them for the rest of their lives. It looks like the people were using the videos to make money (with 760,000 YouTube subscribers, they would have been earning a lot). Probably not Ns, just unbelievably bad parents, though it does make me wonder if today’s N-Mother would use social media against her target child.

My NM died in 2013, and did have an online presence, but never used the Internet against me. It would have been the perfect vehicle for shaming me, but she never went there. I’m guessing the reason is that her tactics relied on secrecy. By keeping the gaslighting and sabotage so secretive, people thought I was crazy and didn't believe me. Her methods were only effective because they were conducted in private. Of course, I was an adult by the time the Internet came around. Who knows if she would have used it against me when I was a child. She was so damn clever, she quite likely would have found a way to humiliate me in a way that others would have thought was "cute," while actually ripping my heart to shreds. Like the stunt that Bettyanne's father pulled. Funny to others, not funny to us.

Kathy

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