10 March 2015

Dance the whole night!

In one image he was dancing enthusiastically and in the other he was bowing head, ashamed, after the bullies laughed at him "spotted this specimen trying to dance the other week". Those pictures were spotted by Cassandra Fairbanks, from California, on 4chan. She then tweeted them on Thursday, asking help to identify the man, "Anyone know this man or who posted this? There's a huge group of ladies in LA who would like to do something special". On Friday, he was successfully identified as Sean from London and he has been sent VIP invite to dance party in LA. In a later tweet, Ms. Fairbanks said of her group of 1727 women: "We would like to fly him to LA for a VIP dance party with the coolest and most awesome ladies in LA, please help...".Musical superstars like Pharrell Williams, Moby and Andrew W.K have all lent their support to the Londoner now know as Dancing Man. Pharrel asked Cassandra to keep him informed about the party and tweeted to Sean: "Never be ashamed of yourself". He says he'll pay the party. The same warm sentiment was offered by Moby (Richard Melville Hall) who offered his DJ services for free.

No one should ever be ashamed of what they are and how they are. This man is not a professional dancer, neither are the guys that posted the pictures and that horrible comment, the ones that laughed at him because he was dancing and enjoying the concert he was at. No one is perfect, everybody, everyone of us, have our defaults, we shouldn't be ashamed of them, especially when this man, Sean, was just dancing! It's seems that people still don't understand that words hurt, sometimes more than physical pain. Bullying is a huge problem now a days, a lot more now with all the social networks. A lot of people kill themselves because they're being bullied, mocked and insulted, and why? because they are themselves, because of their bodies, because of their religion or their sexuality and, the one that I'll never understand, because the ones who do it consider themselves "normal" but nobody is "normal". What's "normal" in the first place? Everyone is different!
What Cassandra Fairbanks did is really kind, there should be more people like her. All of this have a happy ending thanks to her and all the people that helped her. Sean shouldn't be ashamed of how he dances, nobody should be because the ones that make others feel bad, they aren't worth it and they should be ashamed of doing this. 

6 March 2015

Expensive parties

Six fraternities of the University of Michigan celebrated a party at a ski resort which caused a bill damage of $500.000. At the beginning it was estimated $75.000 damage but after a full assessment of the 45 rooms and connecting hallway plus the loss of revenue and damage to the brand's reputation has seen the price multiply by six. Now, the fraternity that originally apologized, Sigma Alpha Mu, don't want to pay the bill, according to Batty Owens, general manager of Treetops in Gaylord.

Owens told MLive: "The destruction done to Treetops Resort by University of Michigan fraternity students in mid-January is now near or beyond $430.000."
While an investigation is ongoing, the university said that they expect the students who are responsible to pay the bill to the Treetops for the damages.
Owens also called on Sigma Delta Tau to contribute to the payment, which includes cleaning fees.

It turns out that members of other organizations from the Ann Arbor, Michigan school did a similar case at an another hotel the same weekend. The damage done to Boyne Highlands resort is also estimated to be worth tens of thousands. Since then the six fraternities implicated in the two parties have been suspended by their national organization while the university and police investigate the incidents.

Sigma Alpha Mu President, Joshua Kaplan said his members are embarrassed and ashamed of the behaviour of some members and that his fraternity accepts full responsibility and will be working with the management of the resort to pay for all damages and cleaning costs. "This behaviour is inconsistent with the values, policies and practices of this organization" said Kaplan. "We will work within our own organization and with university officials to hold those who are responsible accountable for their actions" he commented.

Suspension by their national organization means that the members of the fraternities involved may continue to live in their campuses house but can not participate in social activities, including parties or representing their organization at university functions.


What all those students did is really inappropriate and, excuse me for the language, really stupid. I agree that when you're at a party you just enjoy and if you have been drinking and are drunk you don't think in the consequences of your acts. But I don't know why and how people can break things, that aren't even theirs, during a party. I mean, when you are at a party you drink, dance, play and talk with people but you don't break things. Even more when you are in a public place, a hotel where you have to pay for  the rooms and the time you stay there, I would understand if maybe during the party something fragile breaks but the whole room, they even break the ceiling! I totally agree that the hotels want to receive money for the damages, it's normal. If I was the one judging that case I would make the fraternities pay, help at the reparations and they wouldn't be able to participate at any university activity.

3 March 2015

Social network: Twitter

Twitter had been created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams, Biz Stone and Noah Glass. Twitter is a social network where you can send and read 140-character messages, these messages are visible by default but can be restricted. These messages are called "tweets" and you can retweet and favourite them. On Twitter you don't have "friends" you have followers. The fact of trending on Twitter is when a lot of users talk about a topic and to make it easier they use the "#" at the beginning of the word or sentence. The more popular trending topics are about celebrities, events, sports and world conflicts. There are accounts on Twitter that are verified, the fact of being verified validates the identity of the owner of the account, examples of verified accounts are celebrities accounts.

Do people have moral?

There is an Instagram account, called "The murder mall", that mocks eccentric and homeless people. The account publishes pictures of people at the Surry Hills Shopping Village in inner city Sydney accompanied by cruel captions. One of the worst thing is that almost 2000 people follow the account which makes fun at unfortunate people as overweight and homeless people, police officers and anyone being "comic" to the owner and contributors of the account.
When this article was published there were 270 posted pictures on the account and a lot of Instagram users commented their disgust to the account commenting pictures or tweeting about it on Twitter.
The account had been reported and deleted but if you put "#murdermall" on Instagram you can see that people still use the hashtag posting inappropriate pictures of unfortunate people.


I'm totally shocked about this account, it's just so disgusting how people can laugh at unfortunate people and the fact that the account had almost 2000 followers! How can people do that? Don't they have a moral? I think that's just another problem of the "internet generation", people hide behind their computers and phones screen an make fun of other people that they don't always know, like in this case, the majority of the time people who use internet and social networks to make fun and insult people are the ones who have some kind of problem in their life, above all teenagers and young adults. It's a good thing that the account had been deleted but the fact that people still use the hashtag makes me sick. Unfortunately, there is a lot more of this kind of account, not only on Instagram but also on Facebook and Twitter, but little by little peoples mind start to change and see that these accounts are not appropriate.