I heard about this, while listening to a talk contest show on NPR, driving home from the coffeeshop this morning. According to the initial newspaper report, the clerk at a Dunkin’ Donuts foiled at robbery attempt by bopping the assailant over the head with a “big heavy ceramic” tip jar. When asked what was going through his head, the clerk, Dustin Hoffman (no relation to the actor), said that he was concerned about what the robbery was going to look like on YouTube.
Hoffman was later interviewed on CNN, and reported that the possibility of the surveillance tape going to YouTube was only one of the many things he mentioned to the reporter. But that was the focus for the story they went with in the newspaper.
The NPR contestant said something about YouTube becoming the moral compass of the Internet age. Do you care about what you’ll look like on YouTube?
Fantastic!!! (unless such exhibitionism gets you hurt or killed
This is just one of a number of unique lenses through which the youth of today view the world. Surprising, but not Shocking.
Rodd
I have heard this a lot recently. Anything funny or interesting that is being recorded, is immediately followed by someone saying… I’m YouTubing it or I wonder how that will look on YouTube? Lives are being shared with the world.
That is great – I can’t believe how engrossed we all are in the potential of these technologies and how they change our lives…. only if educators could realise it?!!?!?
Brett,
Schools do realize the potential of this technology. That’s why so many ban cameras in school.
Forget NCLB using standardized tests for teacher accountability…just let the kids bring their cell phones w/cameras to school. YouTube accountability.