I found the Newsweek article to be incredibly depressing because of the duality of terrible personal things becoming public. On the one hand it is the worst thing that could possibly happen to have a young women's most horrifying and personal moment be made public. But on the other hand it provides a catalyst for discussing and approaching the issue of rape in contemporary news. In this way it may even be possible to prevent further rapes or at least create better and more powerful consequences to hold those committing the rapes responsible.
But this doesn't only have to be applied to cases of rape, any number of embarrassing, revealing, terrifying, depressing, etc. moments of our lives can be made public. As made clear in the video we watched, even when you hit delete, those images, those experiences you may not have wanted to share are still there. Social networking we have a small amount of control over how we ourselves interact and share information, but we have no control over how others share and interact with information concerning us. That can be overwhelming and sometimes have devastating psychological impacts (KONY).
i agree how you said it provides catalyst for discussing and approaching the issue. I feel as though the public doesn't do anything until it goes on social media and becomes worse and worse. Also i like how you said how once someone post a picture or post to social media it will be there forever, which could have some devastating impacts.
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