I
am so very grateful there was no such thing as the Internet when I was
a kid. I held some pretty questionable opinions as a youth, such as
"McDonald's is good" and "this jacket should be worn inside-out to show
its plaid lining, so that it will match nicely with my different plaid
pants." So I can't say for sure that I wouldn't have posted
incriminating videos that would come back to haunt me not just in the
future, but in the present.
Take this 12-year-old boy, who has
posted numerous videos of himself on YouTube, one expressing his
feelings against gay marriage in which he admits that he "used to be
gay" but is now "very interested in girls." The wiseacres who inhabit
the Internet have responded with a meme of calling him a homo, and it
is decidedly not going over well with this poor young fellow. Read More...