So You Ve Been Publicly Shamed Summary

With today’s social media, information is passed around faster than ever. Because of this, people's thoughts and feelings are usually right out in the open for everyone in the world to see. In Jon Ronson’s book “So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed” He describes what it means to be publicly shamed on social media, and the consequences of it in different individuals lives. This essay will review the biases and controversies of the author and what future generations will think of the book. In the beginning of the book Ronson explains an experience he had in his life when his personal information was used as an experiment for a few college kids. He went on to call them our which eventually caused them to be publicly shamed. But the focus of Ronson’s story was to explain how public shaming can affect people, in not positive ways, due to the consequences that followed Ronson’s shamers after they were publicly shamed.

He says “A shaming can be like a distorting mirror at a funfair, taking human nature and making it look monstrous.” (Page 238), Ronsons explains that the reason for public shaming is that it makes those who are accused feel as if what they have done can never be fixed. But Ronsons reasoning is that many times we can assume that the person who is being publicly shamed deserves it, and that their choices should be made public for everyone to see. However, he says that these shamings does not give the person the chance to change or be forgiven of whatever they may have