Just as i was talking about BBC3 the other day and their short film on the honey trap death and how amazing it was. This evening BBC3 did it again. This time with an even more hard hitting story on innocent people who had been attacked and ended up dying. Its effect was so great to the point tears could not stop flowing down my face. I don't even consider myself as an emotional person and if it got to me like that it most definitely had an affect on the rest of its audience and that was evident though twitter and facebook that evening.
BBC3 have recently started a new four-part documentary series called ‘Our Crime’. “It uses youth crime as a lens and it presents the effect of modern technology on society. It doesn't aim to analyse a connection, and it doesn't make the mistake of saying there is a definitive link, but it does give us an insight on youth crime that simply wasn't possible before video phones, social networking, and Internet messaging.” Julian Benson
The series producer Jo Abel does not know how smart he really is. Like it did not register to me how advanced and powerful technology has become until i heard the opening sentence of the series. “We are a generation that film everything even our crime”. We are so oblivious to this technology that without it, I'm sure the majority of us will actually be lost. Sometimes i get the feeling that people feel its more of a right than a privileged for us to have the sort of technology we have. Soon I'm sure it will even get too advanced for some of us, yes even us in the younger generation. I already feel old when i find it difficult to use my iPhone and its new apps.
The fact that people are able to freely upload anything they want online, down to even committing crimes is just scary. What is the world really coming to.
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/julian-benson/our-crime-new-bbc-series-_b_1396983.html
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