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Viral Video of the Week–Facebook Tough Love

Oh, my.

That’s about all I could think when I saw this week’s video. It was all over the Internet this last week or so, to the tune of 26 MILLION people in ten days.

This one really hit a nerve with a lot of people. If you look on the original Facebook post wall, there are tens of thousands of comments, and a debate that is raging still. In fact, just while I’ve had the YouTube window open typing this, there have been 90 or so new comments. One interesting tidbit that I noted is that while the gentleman in question cited not profiting from the whole incident as his reason for not taking news show offers, he does have ads on the YouTube video.

So, do you think that this is just punishment for an entitled brat, or egregious overreaction by an abusive parent? I would love to hear your opinion!

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About Kat Schroeder

Kat is part of Cohort 11 in the MCDM. Her particular interests are technology in everyday life (especially parenting), and multimedia storytelling.
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