A child or young person may find cruel messages or pictures about themselves and having their username stolen to spread lies or rumours about someone else. Techniques used by a cyber- bully involves setting up websites to target certain individuals and inviting others to post hate comments about that person. • A child or young person may unknowingly download viruses and malware; a programme that can attach itself to another programme, if this is opened through a spam email it can then damage or create files and generate unwanted behaviour to your computer. • Young people also use mobile phones to send images of themselves to their friends or publish them on the internet, once that image has been published then the sender has lost the power as to what happens to it, it may then be used in contexts other than what it was originally intended for. • Even more seriously they may be groomed by individuals or paedophile rings that use the internet and mobile technology to identify and target potential victims.
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
IT550 Assignment Unit 1 Kaplan University As the digital age progresses, more and more business is conducted electronically. Symbiotically illegal activities of those that wish to prosper from security vulnerabilities will increase. Cybercrime can be motivated by a number of factors including terrorism. Cyberterrorism is any terrorist act that uses computers as the vehicle for their attack. Cyber terrorists can be motivated to target organizations that will result in the radical’s group to cause the most harm and/or receive the most attention for their party.
Many college students are posting inappropriate pictures and posting comments about substance abuse that violate student-conduct policies or local laws. Students these days are now being charged with code violations because of their Facebook postings. Online communities and texting also is being used as a form of cheating in the classroom. The author states a few institutions are blocking Facebook altogether. He thinks the students should be taught interpersonal intelligence and learn when, where, and what kind of internet usage is appropriate.
It seems as if cyber-bullying is a cruel way to treat someone. Any identity can be created on the Internet and that could be a good thing or a bad thing. Many things happen on the web and people hurt certain ones and do not get the punishment they should. Cyber-bullying has led to murders including suicides. The Internet is a huge tool when it comes to the subject taunting others.
Glennis Garcia Mukherjee English 1113 09/19/2012 Anonymous Cowards: A Summary The Growing Cowardice of Online Anonymity by Richard Bernstein is an essay that describes how Internet users nowadays prefer to be anonymous while been on the net. It shows the negative sides of allowing people to be anonymous online, usually posting inappropriate content on sites. Anonymity has grown from being used mainly for newspapers to now it being misused by individuals with no shame of writing what there sometimes hard opinions that sometimes affect other individuals. As the Internet use has grown, so has the anonymity many people find it alright to hide behind an anonymous post afraid many don’t think the way they do. Others hide themselves because they are posting negative and improper things about a subject or about someone in particular.
Anonymity One of the factors explaining the rise of cyber bullying is anonymity. Social networking sites provide the bullies with the ability to remain anonymous. However, this allows cyber bullies with the opportunity not only to exploit but also manipulate the vulnerable identities of teenagers. The mask of anonymity on the internet has become common and it has become impossible for victims to deal with their bullies directly face to face. People have the opportunity to construct one’s identity on social networking sites such as Facebook and My space.
Mass Media and Electronics are Taking Over the World Is this new age of electronics and media influences good for our later generations? Electronics and other Media based technology is becoming very depended on by our population. Many aspects of our generation have become technology-based and are influenced by Mass Media such as the new technology schools use, the evolution of certain electronics, and the way electronics are used to express media. Influences in mass media and electronics are suffocating our younger generation and turning them against other forms of information and media. Many people of our generation have adapted to this electronic world and don’t think about the other ways they could be spending their lives.
A cyberbully is someone who bullies using electronic devices such as computers, tablets, and cell phones (“What is Cyberbullying”, n.d., para 1). The victim is the person targeted by the bully or cyberbully. Bystander(s) in bullying have a few roles, they are the ones that watch, but do nothing, watch and join in by laughing or making comments, observe the behavior and walk away, or try to help the victim out (Kids Involved in Bullying, n.d., para. 2). Bystander(s) in cyberbullying are the ones that see the text messages, emails, social media posts, pictures, and videos, but do not forward them onto their contacts.
This is a popular act of crime because of its traceability; new ways have been introduced to make your online presence untraceable, invisible and anonymous, which leaves you thinking. Should I really be leaving all my personal information online or, “in the cloud”.This allows a younger, smarter, more intelligent generation to rebel freely without their actions being traced to them which is becoming increasingly dangerous as this trend is