In my ted talk video Monica Lewinsky was talking about the price of shame and what she had done that had caused her to be silent for so long. Monica Lewinsky was the woman who had an inappropriate relationship with President Bill Clinton in 1998. Through out the years she had dealt with "slut shaming" and during the hard times Lewinsky felt as if she had no hope. She called herself "patient zero" because of "losing a personal reputation on a global sale almost instantaneously", this situation costed her a lot because she lost her job in the white house and lost friends and family members. To make things worse, Lewinsky's private phone calls, pictures, words, and actions were released to the public without consent. In 2010 social media was born, Monica felt humiliated, hurt, and ashamed for what she had done and social media wasn't making anything better. Many people were dealing with similar situations like Lewinsky and not only would it be aired on television it would also be posted on the internet. One night Lewinsky was on the phone with her mother and they were talking about a young college freshman who went to Rutgers University and his name was Tyler Clementi. His roommate at the time had secretly put a webcam on Tyler's computer and was recording without Tyler's acknowledgement , with him being intimate with another man. Tyler then committed suicide by jumping off the George Washington Bridge on September 22, 2010 at the age of 18. This situation really hit Lewinsky's mother and Lewinsky herself because they both felt as if they were reliving 1998. The internet has many positive outcomes such as saving lives and launching new revolutions, and the negative side of the internet is the cyber bullying and humiliation of some people. Cyber bulling usually has the strongest effect towards kids and some are so humiliated or hurt that they feel as if they can't live to the next day and some tragically don't. Parents usually don't realize how much pain and humiliation their child has suffered until it was too late. In the 1990"s being humiliated for something you had done would only echo to your friends, family, or town, but now since the internet had been born public humiliation can be shared with the online community. Lewinsky says we need to be more compassionate towards others and shaming people online and in public needs to come to an end. The amount of clicks is the amount of humiliation that someone has faced on the internet and the outcome to that is shaming. Researchers claimed that 80% of suicides are mostly because of online bullying. The stop of shaming can only stop if we make an end to online bullying and slut shaming. Everyone makes mistakes and we should help and try to cure one another instead of jabbing them with hurtful words, if we don't start making the right decisions then who knows what the future holds. If you are interested in making a change then yes I would recommend this video.
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