Tuesday, April 7, 2015

Teen Vlogger "HayleeAndBaby" Encourages Underage Pregnancy

Many have decried the deterioration of the once amazing and novel network of people and machines that used to be the internet.  When the barrier to entry was high, a natural quality control of sorts was in place, and strict moderation was often not even required: Computers used to be too hard for stupid people to use.  When exactly did this take place?  Some say as far back as the proliferation of America Online.  Others refer to the "blackening" of MySpace, that is the rapid embrace of the service by the urban underclass, often unfortunately the less educated and more poorly socialized.  This was characterized by the "Bratz Dolls and Glitter" look of the profiles, which unlike Facebook, were highly customizable. A very significant portion of such profiles belonged to black, teen, girls, and right or not, this caused a perception of MySpace to be "trashy" or "ghetto" and experts almost universally agree that this reputation was the cause of MySpace, which once had an estimated valuation worth hundreds of millions, to evaporate virtually overnight, as users switched to the new, clean cut, and exclusive "Facebook".  I'm not saying I agree with this, but such a phenomenon is widely discussed and carefully analyzed thing. The executives at Twitter DELICATELY watched a similar situation, as their service was rapidly embraced by urban African American's especially, due to it fitting in so well with mobile phones, and blacks access the internet from mobile phones more than any other demographic.

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