Busted***

I read Teens Posting Fight Video on Web, What's Behind the Trend?, Web networking photos come back to bite defendants and Teenagers Misbehaving, for All Online to Watch. What all of these articles have in common is that they all are about teens fighting and video taping their fights and outrageous behavior.

In the case of the article "Web networking photos come back to bite defendants Joshua Lipton was charged in a drunken driving crash that seriously injured a woman, a 20-year-old college junior at the time attended a Halloween party dressed as a prisoner. Pictures from the party showed him in a black-and-white striped shirt and an orange jumpsuit labeled "Jail Bird."

Some how these pictures showed up on the well known site called "Face book" these pictures was used as remarkable evidence for Jay Sullivan, the prosecutor handling Lipton's drunken-driving case. `

Sullivan used the pictures to paint Lipton as an unrepentant partier who lived it up while his victim recovered in the hospital. A judge agreed, calling the pictures depraved when sentencing Lipton to two years in prison. Lipton was sentence to 2years in prison.

"Social networking sites are just another way that people say things or do things that come back and haunt them," said Phil Malone, director of the cyberlaw clinic at Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet & Society. "The things that people say online or leave online are pretty permanent." That's why people should be careful what they say because it can always come back to you when you're on a web site like face book or myspace.

The pictures, when shown at sentencing, not only embarrass defendants but also can make it harder for them to convince a judge that they're remorseful or that their drunken behavior was an aberration. (Of course, the sites are also valuable for defense lawyers looking to dig up dirt to undercut the credibility of a star prosecution witness.)

Teens are caught everyday video taping them selves fighting and just doing stupid stuff. What they don't know is yes , things like that catches lots and lots of teens attention but it also could catch a cop or an adult attention and some one could report it and that could get someone in trouble. Last month, after viewing a video of the beating of a 13-year-old girl that was broadcast on Web sites including In the case of Teenagers misbehaving for all online to watch kids decides to taped their selves MySpace, Photobucket and YouTube, the authorities arrested three freshman girls from nearby North Babylon High School.

What comes to someone's mind, Is this a trend or does people really want to hurt other people.
I think that it is right that the people who are on these videos and the ones who are putting these videos on all the websites should be punished. Doing harm to another human being is wrong and taping is worst, people really should be punished for doing things like this. It's not funny that things like this happens to people and it's not a joke. In my opinion I think that is is a trend because allot of teen only wants to do stuff like this when they see someone else doing it and I think that is kind of sad.