The media consequence of blogging
The blog post started as a cry for help. Now it has turn into a media circus.
It might have taken Jean of Jean.sg lots of guts to blog a post her post re-accounting her unfortunate incident where her modesty was deemed to have been outraged, however, was she aware of the reactions she would be getting from netizens?
They varied from support to insults.
Interestingly, the blog post has been picked up by the Singapore media and it seems like John (the alleged aggressor) has turn into from villain to the unfortunate victim.
This blogger have been asking her girlfriends if they would blog about such an incident and to get their opinion about the blog post.
Not surprisingly, many of them replied that they would not blog about it because it was something too personal.
What surprise me was their reaction to the blog. Most of them highlighted that they felt Jean was just trying to get attention.
Maybe that’s the problem. Has social media turn bloggers into anti-social animals where the blog is the only avenue to attract attentions to one call for help?
Or is it the medium that is starting to be the place for a person to let out her/his soul?
Or maybe, just maybe, bloggers need to have their own PR person to help them communicate to the press?
So what should Jean do now? or John?
