Teachers Acting Badly
Survey Shares Most People Believe Teachers Should Be Role Models We face a crisis in which people from all walks of life are in jeopardy of losing their jobs, risking college acceptances and scholarships and even relationships due to careless online posts....
Online Behavior Is A Reflection of Offline Character
Online Behavior -- Offline Character In a society where people are quick to post and think later, they seem to forget that the Internet lives forever. In Chapter 3 of Shame Nation book, "I Can't Believe They Posted That" we discuss many digital blunders that...
Parent Shaming In the Midst of Tragedy
Parent Shaming We're in the middle one of the most horrific crimes against young girls -- as we witnessed over 150 women and girls come forward, some with their parents, to bravely share their experiences of a monster, Larry Nassar. As many of us have...
Majority of Americans Believe POTUS Twitter Behavior is Inappropriate
For the average person we’re all a click away from digital disgrace, however some people seem to be immune to online shame or cyber-blunders. In a recent Economist/YouGov Poll, fewer than one in four Americans find the leader of our land’s Twitter...
Monica Lewinsky Champion of Anti-Bullying “In Real Life”
On October 9th, 2017, Monica Lewinsky debuted the most amazing PSA, In Real Life, a social experiment that puts people to the test -- of how they treat others in reality verses online. The results were struck a cord with people across the globe. Monica...
The Ugly Side of Internet Trolls
We've had studies in 2017 reveal that anyone can be a troll -- Stanford University survey said that under the right circumstances, and we could use our keypad as target practice to innocent people. In Shame Nation, researcher of online harassment, Lindsay Blackwell...
Baby Shaming: Insulting the Defenseless
From our U.S. Marines sharing nudes of their female colleagues, to the leader of our land mocking journalists and throwing insults on social media, we are witnessing a time when some adults are questionable role-models and civility is dipping both offline and...
When Public Shaming Seems to be Acceptable
As someone that experienced both Hurricane Andrew and Wilma in South Florida, the devastation can be literally terrifying. People are misplaced, homes are lost and (if you are an animal lover) your pets can be gone -- forever. It's simply a tragedy. ...
What Lady Gaga and Pink Teach Us About Bullying and Cyber-Shaming
Celebrities—males and especially females—are perhaps the biggest targets for online shaming. People (adults included) don’t stop at mocking these famous people, they taunt their family members as we witnessed after Beyoncé and her four-year old daughter, Blue Ivy,...
What Celebrities Teach Us From Online Shaming
Lady Gaga, Kelly Clarkson, Amy Schumer, Ariel Winter, Melissa McCarthy, Adele, Chris Pratt, Anne Hathaway.... the list could go on and on. The fact is no one, no matter how rich and famous you are, is immune to online shaming. What can we learn...