The Blog of P.U.R.E. and Sue Scheff

As I wrote in my previous Blog post, Syfy's latest new series, The Internet Ruined My Life representatives contacted me. I enlisted the help of Cyberwise to create The Aftershow to help educate viewers after watching the cyber-disasters that ruined lives. Sometimes people weren't even online! The series is an eye-opener for everyone! Twitterverse had this to say: Watch our final show with the Founder of STOMPOutBullying, Ross Ellis and from McAfee/Intel Security, Toni Birdsong.  My latest Huffington Post, Digital Shaming, You're Only A Click Away .

On March 9, 2016 a new series started, The Internet Ruined My Life on the Syfy Network. Though the series is new, we know that keystrokes and cyber-wars have been destroying lives for a long time. “I wish I had never hit send.” “I never knew one Tweet would ruin my life.”  “Everyone wants to be Internet famous.”   Do they? Well, not in the way these stories happened. Have you ever considered what would happen if you become a #hashtag? And I don’t mean a positive one. We have seen many people become victims of viral vomit that have innocently posted something benign that was completely taken out of context. We have seen others that have posted things on what they believed were private forums or groups, or to their limited number of friends or followers — only to have them republished by that one friend that maybe wasn’t really a friend at all.  As a viewer, you watch these cyber-disasters and simply can’t believe they can actually ever happen to you. H...