With the recent You Tube scandal, online violence has become a pressing problem in the United States. Recently there has been an increase in the amount of violent videos uploaded to different online sites, notably You Tube.
The fact that young teens are able to not only premeditate an attack on one of their peers, but videotape it as well, is very alarming. Teens seem to have lost the disgust in violence that current adults still have. They are less susceptible to seeing pain in others and reacting in a way to help the injured person.
However, is the internet to blame? Though the internet access may have increased throughout the United States, there is no direct link that it has increased teen violence. When video games first came out the same claims were made, however, many studies disagreed with the assumption.
As seen here, the violence rates have actually decreased with the years. There is no need to blame the internet and websites such as You Tube for the inability of some teens to control their anger. However, if we, as a society, work together to defeat such violence, perhaps teen violence will continue to decrease. No teen should enjoy violence, whether it be watching violence or committing acts of violence. Personally, anyone who wants to fight should be sent to the military because they could be more valuable committing such acts against a common enemy. The penalty may be harsh, but shock is really the main solution to catch the attention of any violent person.
Truthfully, I could never commit an act of violence. I cannot understand how people enjoy watching people in pain. It is hard enough for me to watch people suffer in a movie, let alone in real life. For now I do not know how people turn to such violence, I can only hope that with the combined efforts of parents, friends and teachers, teen violence will continue to go down in quantity.
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