While the information age has brought us too many blessings to count, it also has a dark underside no one likes talking about. We can contact people halfway across the world with the press of a button, or reach a global audience of millions in seconds, and yet…
And yet there are those instances when that faceless mass of humanity in the crowd, which is usually invisible, makes itself known in ways that often ruin lives. In the past, these acts took place privately, between people or contained within a community. Today, these stories go viral and reach people all over the world, as one woman’s story shows.
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In 2016, an Indiana hair stylist named Holly Jones left a mean-spirited, heartless rant on the Facebook page of one Indianapolis restaurant. She wrote, in great detail, about the bad experience she had had there on New Year’s Eve, and complained endlessly about the service and about another patron nearly losing their life.
Following a reply by one of the restaurant’s owners, the story soon made headlines all over the world. Jones, meanwhile, received threats on her life and abuse. The backlash was severe and unsparing – and all because of one post.
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