The Justine Sacco's Story

On October 7, 2015 The New York Times published an article about Justine Sacco. Justine Sacco is infamous from her tweet about AIDS. She tweeted, “Going to Africa. Hope I don’t get AIDS. Just kidding. I’m white!” The tweet went viral and the internet ran wild. Her career and future was ruined because of her actions.

Her tweets will affect her life because everyone she meets will label her as a racist. Justine’s future jobs will look at her posts and notice that she made a joke about AIDS and Africans, and they could possibly be offended.

       Immediacy comes into this story because as soon as she tweeted the remark, her followers viewed it. She couldn’t take it back or erase it from their memory, which brings Lack of Control into the picture. She had no control over who screenshotted her tweet and who shared it with her friends. The New York Times and Paparazzi noticed the comment and made articles about it which were shortly published, her tweet will be Permanent. Next time, Justine should think about what she says and how it would offend others before posting it.