Week 3 task 2

Public message boards- The Daily mail discussion board on the topic of 'lady claiming benefits for under 18 children'

http://chat.dailymail.co.uk/dailymail/threadnonInd.jsp?forum=376&thread=9876610&message=14734735

This message board discusses the issues about woman claiming benefits for so many children. The main focus been on a woman who had claimed benefits for all 18 children she had. Many people who wrote on the discussion board thought this was wrong and wondered how it was done. The government was addressed in a negative way by people as they were claiming that they didnt focus enough on engllish citizens as the woman who was claiming benefits for her 18 children is said to have a swedish nationality. ' The amazing thing is, she's not even British...She has ,i believe Swedish Nationality,but born in Africa.How did someone,NOT British citizen,Get these benefits?' The person who is making this claim wouldn't probably have the guts to go up to somebody in the real world who wasn't english and say that they didnt have the rights to claim benefits for all their children especially if they were friends or new a particular person that wasn't english. People feel like they can say what they want and not hold back and not get in trouble for it when they are writing on these messages boards online as nobody knows who they are as they don't give there real names they use nick names or fake names like 'xkeys' and 'madbess'. By using these names they know it is safe and they are free to express themselves in whatever way they want an probly in ways that they wouldn't if they were speaking in public. Pehaps they use these fake names because they don't want to be flamed in anyway by other users using their real name in responce to what they have said. Fake names don't give anybodys identity away.

The kind of people that are writing on this board in response to the topic are middle class people and all share the same feelings and agree that the working class woman who is claiming these benefits like many others arn't going out to work to earn a living they are just sitting at home not attempting to go out and get a job instead they rely on benefits.
Those people from middle classes (the people writing negative respones on the boards) are going out and working hard and paying tax which in effect the tax money they are paying is the money that is been given to the working class people who don't work and need the money for raising there children. Their opinions are strong and they believe that if some people can do this then why can't everybody.

When asked where people come from when they are discussing online they never say whereabouts they have come from so they can't be tracked down in anyway they always say just Enlgland or London places that are very big.