Being the heroe or the victim of "happy slapping"

It can be amazing to speak about « violence » on Internet. Indeed, the word violence can have a physical dimension.

- "Happy slapping" : a kind a violence on Internet
In fact, we also speak about violence on Internet. We can take the example of « happy slapping». This is a new phenomenom which exists because of new technologies. It means that some people (in general teenagers) film violence they do on people in real life. After they have created the film with their mobile phones, they broadcast the images on Internet, on their blog for instance. Some psychologues analyze this phenomenon saying that thanks to the camera, people don’t hace really the impression to do something illegal. But I think there is a part of « sight » in this case. It means that people want to exhib what they are able to do.

- Being someone else
This is not the only one example. As a matter of fact, it exists other example. If we want to meet people thanks to chatrooms, we can have bad experiences. I talked about « identity theft ». In fact, some people use other identities in order to meet boys and girls and they have violence on them. In 2007, a young boy met a man which was about 50. He thought it was 25 years old. This man rape the young boy, in his house.

Be careful…an author said « Internet is like a street ». You can meet unbalanced people.