Stomp launches campaign to ridicule young Singaporeans for ‘inappropriate behaviour’ on Facebook
Singapore gossip site Stomp has launched a section devoted to highlighting “inappropriate behaviour” by young people on Facebook.
The Singapore Press Holdings-owned site, which encourages Singaporeans to snoop on their fellow citizens and make wrongdoing public, has introduced a campaign called “Don’t be a Facebook Idiot”.
The campaign calls on Singaporeans to highlight bad behaviour on the social network – such as smoking, damaging public property or posing for photos “in a state of undress” – by sending in content generated by young Facebookers they deem to be wrong.
The first video in the series features a secondary school pupil who is overheard calling his mother a “motherless dog” and wishing his entire family would die.
In a post to introduce the campaign, the site wrote:
Stomp has received many contributions about youths behaving like idiots on facebook. They commit various inappropriate acts on facebook like making racist comments, scolding their parents, smoking, posing for photos in a state of undress and damaging public property, just to name a few.
These youths do not realise that they might regret their actions later in life. Stomp will regularly highlight such errant behaviours in the hope that youths will refrain from making offensive postings on Facebook.
We feel that youths should exercise discipline and act responsibly on social media and be aware that there are always repercussions to their actions.
Stomp called on Singapore’s schools to punish young people who misbehave on Facebook.
“We also hope that schools will take the appropriate action against the facebook idiots,” the site wrote.
The first video in the series can be viewed here.
Goodbye individuality. Hello Stepford Wives, Singapore edition.
ReplyJust when I thought Stomp and its users couldn’t get any more ridiculous and pointless, this. What’s the point in being a teenager if you can’t make a few mistakes now and then? People say the wrong things from time to time, in a conversation, in a status update, etc. They should still be afforded the chance to learn from these mistakes before being vilified and chased out of the county (in some cases). I really don’t see much of a difference between Stomp articles like these and cyber bullying.
ReplyA classic example of tackling the problem from the wrong end. We need to educate parents and kids on how to behave on these sites and what the consequences maybe for them later in life. Encouraging vigilante justice or “eye for an eye” punishment is archaic and ineffective. But let’s be honest, it’s not really about that, it’s about trying to create an online version of Jerry Springer to attract more eyeballs and sell more ads!
ReplyWell, from a creative perspective, life is about experimentation. How are you going to learn from your mistakes if you’re too frightened to make them?
ReplyCool. Asking folks to snitch on their friends rather than directly telling them off. Great move.
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