Discussion Topic- Documenting Sandy

It came to most as a surprise that Sandy affected the city as detrimentally as it did. I was aware of the faked photographs being posted in the social media and I thought it was a completely unsubstantial addition to the shocking news. Those photographs may have been created as a reaction of the storm as seeming like “the end of time”– paradoxically, it could be that they were mean’t to uplift the intensity of the situation. I am sure there were many different motives behind them. But inescapably, they mocked the reality of the storm, and the reality was, and still is, that too many had lost so much during the hurricane, that I cannot understand how their purpose was to have been funny or important in any way. It was a matter of time that their legitimacy would be exposed which disputes my confusion of them further.