http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20060708200645AAt83bG
While there are many advantages and opportunities that allow a person to get information in an instant, this information is not always positive. Yahoo!Answers is a tool many use to post up any question they have for the public to answer. In the above instance, a girl asks how she can hide her bulimia from her mother. A stranger gives her numerous options where similar girls talk about their condition and give each other advice. This is not advice to fix the problem, but rather, it is advice to further hide the problem and promote their harmful habits. The question listed above is only one of many questions of its kind. Others ask how to hide bulimia from their dentist or from the general public. Some of the responses tell the young girls to seek help, but others respond with personal experiences on how to hide their problem. I don't think there is necessarily a solution to this problem because it would be too difficult to monitor every single question posted on both Yahoo!Answers and any other site that allows this form of posting/interaction. This is something that must be changed culturally because of what people consider beautiful. This can be connected with our discussion in class on how perception of the ideal woman has drastically changed from a full figured and voluptuous woman to a our thin super models today. As a result, woman are also changing their lifestyles in an attempt to live up to these images. Hence, the fast growing web is not the true problem-- it's our culture.
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