Mainly. Few. Little.
Mainly things I love.
A few things I hate.
A little of me.

Often I will get things wrong, thats ok. I am learning.

Lauren Mann, New Zealand
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THINK about your online presence! I really don’t know who has the time to sit around and make groups on facebook but every time I log on I always seem to have 4 or 5 requests to join various groups. Some times these groups are legitimate, like a team you are part of, a school you used to go to or a cause you support. It’s a good way to keep in touch and find out important information. What’s becoming more disturbing however is the amount of racist, sexist and just plain rude groups I have been invited by friends to join. I think anyone with Facebook will know what I am talking about; those random groups that have no point, have no content and are just there, I guess, to make people laugh. On Sunday I was a bit bored and read down the homepage thing where you can see what all your friends are up to and was pretty shocked at the groups they had liked. One in particular had liked the following groups; -          Making your girlfriend sleep on the wet patch because she didn’t swallow. -          We’re going to have sex tonight, why? Because I am stronger than you are. -          You know you have got a keeper when your girlfriend picks and iron in Monopoly. -          No women, no kai (kai is Maori for food). -          Some girl in China lost her virginity at 13, her name was ‘Sum Yung Ho’ -          Put your girlfriend on a lead mate, she is barking again. -          Smiling at Asians so they don’t eat your pets. -          If Rihanna is so hard why didn’t she knock Chris Brown out of it? The individual who liked all these groups, and about 300 more, is a FEMALE I went to school with. (I have since removed her as a friend). These groups are created by people with a sick perception of the world and when you like them you buy into that idea. Take the group; we’re going to have sex tonight, why? Because I am stronger than you are, over 50,000 people ‘like’ that group. Does that mean over 50,000 like rape? I would assume not and are joining the group because a. it made them chuckle or b. they clicked without really reading it. But I can guarantee you there will be people in that group who think its ok to hold down a women (or man) and force them to do things they don’t want to do. When you like it, what you are saying, whether you mean to or not is that you think this is ok, maybe not to do it, but to joke about it. I have friends who have been raped, abused or who have felt lesser because of their race or sexual orientation or gender. They have facebook and I know what pops up on my homepage pops up on theirs. How does that make them feel…. ?

THINK about your online presence!

I really don’t know who has the time to sit around and make groups on facebook but every time I log on I always seem to have 4 or 5 requests to join various groups. Some times these groups are legitimate, like a team you are part of, a school you used to go to or a cause you support. It’s a good way to keep in touch and find out important information.

What’s becoming more disturbing however is the amount of racist, sexist and just plain rude groups I have been invited by friends to join. I think anyone with Facebook will know what I am talking about; those random groups that have no point, have no content and are just there, I guess, to make people laugh.

On Sunday I was a bit bored and read down the homepage thing where you can see what all your friends are up to and was pretty shocked at the groups they had liked.

One in particular had liked the following groups;

-          Making your girlfriend sleep on the wet patch because she didn’t swallow.

-          We’re going to have sex tonight, why? Because I am stronger than you are.

-          You know you have got a keeper when your girlfriend picks and iron in Monopoly.

-          No women, no kai (kai is Maori for food).

-          Some girl in China lost her virginity at 13, her name was ‘Sum Yung Ho’

-          Put your girlfriend on a lead mate, she is barking again.

-          Smiling at Asians so they don’t eat your pets.

-          If Rihanna is so hard why didn’t she knock Chris Brown out of it?

The individual who liked all these groups, and about 300 more, is a FEMALE I went to school with. (I have since removed her as a friend).

These groups are created by people with a sick perception of the world and when you like them you buy into that idea. Take the group; we’re going to have sex tonight, why? Because I am stronger than you are, over 50,000 people ‘like’ that group. Does that mean over 50,000 like rape? I would assume not and are joining the group because a. it made them chuckle or b. they clicked without really reading it. But I can guarantee you there will be people in that group who think its ok to hold down a women (or man) and force them to do things they don’t want to do. When you like it, what you are saying, whether you mean to or not is that you think this is ok, maybe not to do it, but to joke about it.

I have friends who have been raped, abused or who have felt lesser because of their race or sexual orientation or gender. They have facebook and I know what pops up on my homepage pops up on theirs.

How does that make them feel…. ?

posted on 6/11/2011 with 2 notes

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