However, with the advancement in technology and its wide use, a new type of bullying has developed, cyberbullying, which is when a person uses technology and/or electronic devices to bully another person, typically by sending messages or posting comments of an intimidating or threatening nature. What makes cyber-bullying much more dangerous than regular bullying is that because if it on the internet, it will stay there for a long time and for everyone to see. What’s worse, is that the bully can easily hide under a different name or profile, making it harder to find out who is responsible in terms of facing consequences. It is very important to delete cyberbullying because when teenagers begin to abuse the convenience of the internet to harass others, it creates a very dangerous environment that extends outside the classroom or school. When someone is being harassed or embarrassed online, it reaches far outside of their world, and strangers all
Hundreds of Anons, making identical characters, a black man in a suit with an afro and shades on, logged on to the same server and harassed other users, mostly in the 11-14 age range, with verbal assaults, profanity, and swastikas. Another notable event was a simultaneous bomb threat by an Anon to eight sports stadiums across the country. It was a challenge contrived on the boards to scare as many people as possible. In the days of MySpace, a common occurrence was using hacking skills to engage in cyber-bullying. An Anon would post the MySpace of a person he didn't like and they would hack his profile, filling it with taboo pornographic images.
Being victimized also increases their chances of harassing peers online themselves. The research also revealed that 68 percent of cyberbullying victims spoke up about their harassment to friends, parents or other authority figures. (Michele L. Ybarra, 2006
New generation likes to use social media as self advertisement and sometime they share very personal information. By doing this, their future privacy fells endanger and can affect badly in their mind in future which is not a good thing for the society, widely for the nation. Also, social media is hurting our society by spreading misinformation faster than any other media. Author Amanda Thomas shows a statistics in the
Miller 1 Debby Miller Professor Davis English 101 29 June 2014 Home Schooling Children In Kimberly Walker's Article, entitled, “How Social Media Made Us Narcissists, “she claims the social media has pushed us all into steamy love affairs with ourselves. It's evidenced by the myriad profile shots that feature us in every possible scenario from exercising to pretend- ing to be sleep. Most people believed that the social media is a good way to stay in contact with people. Most people use it for this purpose. She also states that social media encourages bullies to say things that they wouldn't normally say.
The gaming industry evolves and becomes an aspect of what the world represents. Today, gaming is not only for entertainment purposes, but also a stimulator, an educational tool, a messenger. Grand Theft Auto IV is one of the games that most critics criticized because of many representations in some aspects – violence, racism, crime, poverty, etc. The game becomes a tool to give people an idea that materialism sometimes affects a person’s life. Lots of problems occur in the society which is closely related to the game itself, and the game emphasized these issues.
With the rapid development of the society, Internet plays a larger and larger role in our daily life. The question of how free we are when we express ourselves online also becomes an issue. The Supreme Court deals with a case called Elonis v. United States this term, which involves a man says on Facebook that he will kill his wife, a FBI agent, and bomb an elementary school. As far as I am concerned, the Supreme Court should limit the extension of such kind of violent speech because it has already caused threats to other individuals and the society as a whole, and such fact is more important than whether he intended to do so or not. Elonis believes that his right of free speech under the protection of the First Amendment was violated.
In this essay she writes about Children and the internet, pornography and the internet, internet transactions, technology must serve man. Cleavers main point in this article is to raise the awareness of parents, teens, and children about the dangers that are on the internet. I believe that Cleaver is mainly writing to all internet users. Whether that be adults, young adults, teens, and children, they all get deceived and lured into clicking the sign up now button where they give away important information. In this summary I will be answering seven questions.
Web. 20 Feb. 2013. This article discusses how the Internet is taking over and destroying the minds of many people. Jeff Bercovici explains this that the Internet has become people’s new addiction because many spend the majority of their day on it. He exemplified a case in which the Internet actually drove a man towards insanity.
In the essay “Privacy Under Attack” the author believes that one’s privacy is being attacked by not only the government but also by computer hackers. Privacy can be considered as one of the most valuable possessions and privileges. Every day, people are being bugged and alarmed by the growth of privacy-evading technologies that penetrate their personal information, personal space, and personal moments. Lately, a telephone technology has been developed which enables companies to have a back door to people's privacy setting installed in their telephones. Aside from this, there are also the restless cameras installed in the elevators , restaurants , parking areas , common rooms , lounge areas apartments , and all the other places where people least expect to be watched .