Kiki Kannibal The Girl Who Played With Fire - 1666 Words

The story of fourteen year old, Kirsten Ostrenga, is told by Sabrina Rubin Erdely in â€Å"Kiki Kannibal: The Girl Who Played With Fire.† Kirsten was a young teenager, who entered the world that lies within the internet seeking an escape from her lonely life in Coral Springs, Florida. Her online persona, Kiki Kannibal, an audacious and wild tennager, gained a lot of attention for her rather provocative and bold posts. Her life was quickly in shambles. Kiki received threats, sexual messages, and was a victim of sexual assault that ended in a traumatic death. Erdely chose to depict Kiki as a helpless victim of the cruel, online world who had no control over the alarming situation she found herself in. Erdely states that Kirsten was just your†¦show more content†¦But her two worlds had veered into each other and were now spinning way beyond her control. The investigation into her rape was unfolding amid the nonstop noise of her growing fan base and intensifying backlash. Because while Kirsten Ostrenga’s life was falling apart, Kiki Kannibal continued posting as though nothing had happened† (Erdely). Not only does she state that Kirsten’s two worlds were colliding and it was out of her control, but she does so in a way so that her readers are able to note a distinction between Kirsten’s two personas. It is as if Kiki was not an extension of Kirsten, but more so a separate being. While the two persona’s were very different, they were still embodied by the same fouteen year old. Somehow though, Kiki was able to keep her two persona’s separate in her mind and used Kiki as an escape to her reality. In a way she was a separate being, making me question why Erdely did not choose to look into the mental health of Kirsten. Dissociative identity disorder is a mental health disorder in which a person has two or more distinct personalities, which one could argue was the case with Kirsten. Erdely articulates that Kirsten’s world was falling apart, but Kiki acted as nothing happened and to say the least, as a parent you should find that worrying. Erdely compares Kiki’s online persona to a famous character from a novel of a young girl, Dolores, who was involved with her stepfather and his private nickname for her was Lolita.Show MoreRelatedStrategies For Preventing Misuse : The Girl Who Played With Fire1098 Words   |  5 PagesMisuse Due to lack of prudence Kristen â€Å"Kiki† Ostrenga was very lenient with her posts and the people she talked to when it came to her online persona as â€Å"Kiki Kannibal†. With the intention to use the internet to receive attention a vast amount of problems were created for her and her family. Kiki Kannibal received the attention she wanted from fans and also negative attention from other profiles and bullies. In â€Å"Kiki Kannibal: The Girl Who Played with Fire† Sabrina Rubin Erdely demonstrates theRead MoreVisible M Ethics And The New Genetics1805 Words   |  8 Pagesvideos on MySpace. Also, interacting with the people who took notice of her contents. This would of only been possible do to her online persona as â€Å"Kiki Kannibal†. With the intention to use the Internet to receive the attention a vast amount of problems were created for her and her family. Kiki Kannibal received the attention she wanted from fans, but also negative attention from other profiles and bullies. In â€Å"Kiki Kannibal: The Girl Who Played with Fire† Sabrina Rubin Erderly demonstrates the undesired