So You Have Been Publicly Shamed Analysis
Throughout the book, “So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed” there is various situations where people have made mistakes and have regretted it after being publicly shamed. Everyone who post things on social media is at risk at putting himself or herself out for public shaming. After all public shaming only takes one mistake or misinterpretation. Jon Ronson decided to make a book with different stories of people getting publicly shamed. There are also different forms of public shaming demonstrated throughout the book. The author of the book, Jon Ronson, was one of the first people in the book to get publicly shamed. Jon had realized there was a twitter with the username “Jon_Ronson” and with Jon’s face as the profile picture. You later discovered
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Some people on “social media were just starting on our shaming crusade”(230). People tend to take others online mistakes into their own hands. You also caught yourself” judging someone on how flustered he behaves in the face of shaming is a truly strange and arbitrary way”(234). Public shaming is bad, unproductive, and ineffective. I also think that people become so into shaming that they feel as if it is a neutral thing. Public shaming is a vicious cycle and by shaming someone is likely to produce even more shame for him or her. I noticed that the attitude you had towards public shaming in the beginning of the book changed towards the end of the book. You also mention that “we are creating a world where the smartest way to survive is to be bland”(266). Everyone has his or her own opinion on how our society is but fail to realize how boring we are becoming. I also agree that we fail to realize who much some of us are getting off on others suffering after being publicly shamed. Many people who publicly shame other try ease the pain by creating “illusory ways to justify”(81) their behaviors. People believe that by shaming others they are doing something righteous. They use that to justify others losing everything they have done throughout their lives for a mistake they made on social
Some people on “social media were just starting on our shaming crusade”(230). People tend to take others online mistakes into their own hands. You also caught yourself” judging someone on how flustered he behaves in the face of shaming is a truly strange and arbitrary way”(234). Public shaming is bad, unproductive, and ineffective. I also think that people become so into shaming that they feel as if it is a neutral thing. Public shaming is a vicious cycle and by shaming someone is likely to produce even more shame for him or her. I noticed that the attitude you had towards public shaming in the beginning of the book changed towards the end of the book. You also mention that “we are creating a world where the smartest way to survive is to be bland”(266). Everyone has his or her own opinion on how our society is but fail to realize how boring we are becoming. I also agree that we fail to realize who much some of us are getting off on others suffering after being publicly shamed. Many people who publicly shame other try ease the pain by creating “illusory ways to justify”(81) their behaviors. People believe that by shaming others they are doing something righteous. They use that to justify others losing everything they have done throughout their lives for a mistake they made on social