The Dark Side of Facebook
Live
Back in April 2016, Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook,
with the help of his team brainstormed an idea to make his social media site
livelier by having those who use his website to be able to stream their own
live videos. After announcing the idea, two months later “Facebook Live” was
brought into action and has increased the use of social media interactors on
Facebook.
There were very many beneficial factors with
this new part about Facebook, such as showing others what you are doing at the
moment and keeping updated with friends and family. With the fast production of
having Facebook live happen, there wasn’t enough time to consider how this
factor would also have negative consequences towards others. The consequence
with this is that Facebook doesn’t exactly have the right to censor the videos
published since they occur quickly. “According to a tally by The Wall Street
Journal, people have used Facebook Live to broadcast at least 50 acts of
violence, including murder, suicides and the beating in January of a mentally
disabled teenager in Chicago.”
Users
use Facebook Live to show aspects of their own social lives, advertise
themselves through business and products, and is a big aspect of marketing for
top notch companies. It is definitely difficult for Facebook to review and
control every user’s video to make sure it doesn’t contain any graphic or
horrifying events. Unfortunately to this day, Facebook still doesn’t have
control over that, but they are working at their very best to tear down the
numbers of the dark side of Facebook Live moments.
Natalie Torres
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Nice blog, I really liked it. It was very interesting to me as I understood why you choose this article over others. You did an excellent job at explaining the dark side of Facebook Live. Keep up the work on your next blogs.
ReplyDeleteWell-written and insightful post. I now understand the issue Facebook is dealing with regarding Live and these incidents.
ReplyDeleteThat was so interesting! I had no idea of the adverse consequences Facebook was having with the new feature: Facebook live.
ReplyDeleteThat is true I never thought of it that way. I guess when Facebook decided on this feature they couldn't have imagined how this could generate content that could negatively affect the Facebook community.
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