Talking about SNS and the privacy settings, it reminds of me of a big incident that happened in Korea last year.
A singer named Jay Park from a popular boy band called 2pm who was traumatized by Korean netizens, left the country after 4 days, when his MySpace comments he posted to his friend 3 years ago were translated and publicized.
Jay Park was born and raised in Washington and he had come to his motherland, South Korea, to become a singer. He gained fame and popularity but not long after, a bored netizen tracked him down on his MySpace page to find something worthy of public interest. The content of his messages to his friend were mostly about his life as a trainee singer in an unfamiliar land, containing phrases like ‘Korea is gay’ and ‘I hate Koreans’. These comments were translated to an overly angry and mocking tone in Korean and this was enough to stir up the rage. The messages were 3 years old when they were spread over the net and yet they tagged along on his tail like a tattoo.
SNS is a scary thing I tell you...
You better watch out what you share, or else you never know when they’ll bite you back in the future.
A singer named Jay Park from a popular boy band called 2pm who was traumatized by Korean netizens, left the country after 4 days, when his MySpace comments he posted to his friend 3 years ago were translated and publicized.
Jay Park was born and raised in Washington and he had come to his motherland, South Korea, to become a singer. He gained fame and popularity but not long after, a bored netizen tracked him down on his MySpace page to find something worthy of public interest. The content of his messages to his friend were mostly about his life as a trainee singer in an unfamiliar land, containing phrases like ‘Korea is gay’ and ‘I hate Koreans’. These comments were translated to an overly angry and mocking tone in Korean and this was enough to stir up the rage. The messages were 3 years old when they were spread over the net and yet they tagged along on his tail like a tattoo.
SNS is a scary thing I tell you...
You better watch out what you share, or else you never know when they’ll bite you back in the future.
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