The story of Ivanna leaving her ‘sidekick’ mobile phone in the new York cab is one which got me to thinking if the response was so great in 2006 what would happen if people united and demanded there stolen goods in 2012? Would this be the era of naming and shaming thefts? A digital judgment day whereby the citizens are in charge? The future looks to be a very hard one especially if you’re struggling to meet payments. This brings us to morals is it really wrong to be stealing to feed you and your family? Jobless? Homeless? Would it be right to then name and shame these people even though they already have nothing to call their own? Should we not be helping these very people to bring them up to our own level instead of further secluding and isolating them? The story we was told basically goes that Ivanna’s friend Guttman sets up a website for the stolen phone and the website ends up having millions of views with people helping her find the person that found and stole the phone. Now the question is how to me measure success, that’s simple all we need to do is take a look at how long it took for Ivanna to be reunited with her ‘sidekick’ mobile which was two weeks which is more successful than any police force I have seen and dealt with in my life time. Seven years on from this story we have all become more internet friendly and records show that more people spending time online than ever before, so how would a similar case be resolved in London if I was to lose my mobile on the tube for example? And I made a website to find it again; would I see any help from fellow Londoners? Is the real success in the story the American people’s attitude? Is this a cultural issue? Or can this online story become the new craze worldwide like the internet was designed to be.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=769txj9gfxM
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