Going Viral

[FishingMOM]

Just a reminder to all of us and our kids that pictures once on the web can and will go anywhere.
This is a lesson being taught by a teacher in Edinburgh, United Kingdom. She has asked that people make this image go viral. So her students have a better understanding of what can happen to the pictures they have.





Vicky Walker

January 13/14
I am teaching E-safety to my pupils at the moment and wanted to try a little experiment. Please share this photo and see how far it gets, I want to show my students how easily photos etc can go viral, even when you may not want them to. Share it and see how far it goes!

[ak77]

There is a difference between a picture going viral, and simply asking to share the picture. Picture worth being called viral will run away from you. 99.99% of the pictures on the web aren't - you won't even get 6 degrees of separation. I think the better lesson would be to grow a thicker skin from young years and not to worry about what happens to your picture if it makes all the way to Australia 6 months from now. Things on web have a very short life span, and only will continue rotation if you keep bringing it up.

On the other hand, I am no teacher, no father, and not even Canadian (by birth). What do i know...

[Forest Techer]

Aren't there a thousand good examples already? And examples where help or exposure wasn't solicited?

[ak77]

There are tons, hundreds, thousands examples of videos, images, articles that are available that show how a piece of media can propagate across the globe. I guess they wanted to put the familiar face on the experiment. I hope though they don't spend too much time on that as I really don't see it taking off...

[Reeves1]

I was viral....till I went to the Doctor.

All good now

[Red Bullets]

The teacher should have included an email address so anyone that sees the pic can respond and let her students know. Sadly, the teacher and her class will never know it has been posted here on AO.

[HunterDave]

If she wanted it to go viral she should have done it in the nude.

[FishingMOM]

Originally Posted by Red Bullets

The teacher should have included an email address so anyone that sees the pic can respond and let her students know. Sadly, the teacher and her class will never know it has been posted here on AO.

I sent her a message that it is on AO and provided her with a link so if she wants she can come here and see what is happening.


As of right now that photo has been Shared on facebook 179,883 times.

Originally Posted by ak77

Now the kids will be "cell phone" savvy and "super-safe" online instead of "useless academic" cr@p

More and more kids have cell phones. Just this last week the 6, 8 year olds next door decided to show off their new cell phones.
There is a 5 year old in my sons daycare sporting an i phone.

As parents we need to remind our kids about the things they post, or what their friends may post of them.

There are images out there of my own son, which I have no control over. God only knows how many pedophiles have seen those images which were taken without consent and more than 18 months later we have yet to find the culprit.

We have seen several cases where images that got out cost young people their lives, as they couldnt live with what either they shared as a private image, or someone else took and shared.