Yik Yak Yik Yak is probably the biggest social trend I’ve experienced while at West Point. It is relatively new and the anonymous interface gives people next level comfort especially in an environment where there are several restrictions on what you can say out loud. Yik Yak is useful, I would argue – here more so than at other colleges – CGR can send out quick updates and a significant amount of the cadet population would see them right away; questions about formation times, gym hours and several other things can be answered with ease. However, due to the anonymity, Yik Yak has also become a platform for anonymous hate and bashing. This isn’t new and everyone knows it’s happening. We had a PMEE session talking about why people should …show more content…
During one of the questions I got a notification that a friend had sent me a picture; my curiosity got the better of me and I clicked on the notification. When I opened it I saw that it was a screenshot of a Yak – about me. It said “What happened to Jagadam.” I was shocked that anyone cared enough to ask. I wanted so badly to say something but instead I just reported the yak. Anything I commented had the same value the post had – there is never value in defending yourself to an anonymous hater. I saw the post accumulate comments – people, it seemed, had my life all mapped out in their heads. There were some semi-accurate comments, some ridiculous ones, and some that were just rude. I asked some of my friends to down vote it and report it and by the middle of the next hour it was …show more content…
Hiding behind anonymity doesn’t make you any better.” It was voted on a total of 45 times and has 19 upvotes. That’s a breakdown of 32 upvotes and 13 downvotes. While I see how people may think it’s okay to just downvote something as a joke, and I wasn’t necessarily trying to start a social revolution with my yak, I do genuinely find it concerning that there are people who legitimately don’t see anything wrong with calling people out by name in a negative light. Though it may be true that I did this to myself, I think that the fact that we’ve created a culture here where cyber bullying is so acceptable “because they deserve it” is
In her article “How the Internet Has Changed Bullying”, Maria Konnikova explained how bullying has reached technology, and in the workplaces of many adults. The Internet has made it harder to escape from bullying, and easier for bullies to escape from confronting their victims. Furthermore, the author stresses that cyberbullying not only targets high schoolers, but it’s affecting the lives of college students as well (Konnikova 1). Cyberbullying takes place in the Internet world where is easier for a bully to gossip and humiliate multiple of victims in a faster pace. The studies have shown that cyberbullying is making a greater impact in the victims’ and the bullies’ lives more than the traditional bullying and many people are not aware of it; therefore the schools, witnesses, and employers should work together to fight against cyberbullying and provide help to the victims and bullies.
.... When I look at my newsfeed on facebook, I notice peers who are completely silent during school, create this unrecognizable personality online. I often see classmates going back and forth with each other on facebook, then during school, there is no issue. I think to myself, ¨ Who is this person on the internet, and why is he the exact opposite during school?¨ By using a language that would never be used in real life, one is creating a false power and identity on the internet. There is not one internet thug that has the same personality on and off of the computer, this is the problem. It is not okay to create an identity online that does not reflect one's true character. We has a society, need to stay true to our personality and character, regardless of if we are on the internet or not. Like the commercial says, " If you wouldn't say it in person, why say it online?¨
Seemingly inoffensive posts can easily become the center for a huge uproar in a matter of minutes. Jon Ronson explores this topic in his article “How One Stupid Tweet Ruined Justine Sacco’s Life.” His paper is yet another example of the hypersensitivity of the nation. What was meant to be a simple joke sparked a huge protest for white privilege over social media. His article lists several other examples of such posts that sparked similar disputes, all over seemingly innocent comments. Both Ronson and Friedersdorf illustrate the downward trend on acceptance and forgiveness in America today.
Cyberbullying is the electronic posting of mean-spirited messages about a person (as a student) often done anonymously (merriam-webster). These messages can occur through social media, email, and even online gaming communities. Statistics say bullying victims are anywhere from two to nine times more likely to consider committing suicide (DoSomething). Cyberbullying is a completely new form of bullying it does not end when the school day ends like normal bullying would. Cyberbullying is an experience one can never get away from, there is no escaping, and it only gets worse. As many as twenty five percent of teenagers have reported experiencing cyberbullying (CNN News). Twelve percent of teenagers around the ages of twelve to seventeen years old report frequently seeing their peers being mean or cruel online, while twenty nine percent of teenagers report only sometimes seeing their peers being mean or cruel (CNN News, 2013). Eighteen-year-old Brandon Turley, who experienced cyberbullying in middle school designed the website westophate.org and created the BullyButton.org page on Fac...
Traditional bullying that used to occur commonly on school-grounds has now been over shadowed by harassment through the Internet and other technology related devices. According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary “cyber bullying” is defined as ...
Context: Cyberbullying is a relatively new strain of bullying. With the Internet being at such easy reach and children and teenagers being so tech savvy, things such as a mean text or an unfriendly social media post is just a finger click away. “Cyberbullying is in simple terms, known as, bullying through the Internet. Whether it is through email, instant messaging, on a Web site through images sent digitally. Because cyberbullying is so new, it has caught the eyes of the press and educators recently. Cyberbullying has both similarities and differences of traditional bullying. There are also unique repercussions and ways of dealing with it. (Kowalski, Limber, and Agatston pg. 1-2).
Diatribes occupy a large chunk our scope in the living life of this new millennium. In a society transfixed on maintaining a vital root in both the visual world and the virtual, rants are gaining power. The power of the open letter can wipe a person’s public image clean. Just like that, one can crown themselves as an outcast from their past workings and convictions, removing the gravity of think pieces and banal podcasts hungry for signs of vulnerability. Opinion boards breed without second contemplation at this rate, with the virtual, prose trash-bins dating back to the early stirrings of the Internet. Self-validation is not an illness plaguing the modern world propped on hackneyed Western ideologies, but a way of being. It is but a simple way to garner connections in the technology age, to gain recognition.
In the case of Ryan Halligan, a teenage boy who committed suicide at the young age of 13, Albert D. Lawton Middle School did very little to justify what its students had done to him. How severe the punishments should be for each student is always controversial. When witnesses get involved, a digital pile-on occurs. In this situation, the person who posts something is soliciting the involvement of other users who may not even know the target. The other users that get involved will also be at fault for agreeing and encouraging the bully to continue to distress the victim.
Social media can cause some great trouble for some people. Some people can become bullies over the internet, while others are the innocent victims for these emotionless
This is a truly sad story but it something that occurs all too often around the world. Right about now, you may be asking yourself what is the true definition of cyberbullying? Cyber bullying is cyberbullying is the use of technology to harass, threaten, embarrass, or target another person. Online threats, rude texts, and mean tweets, posts, or messages all count. So does posting personal information or videos designed to hurt or embarrass someone else. Cyberbullying also includes photos, messages, or pages that don't get taken down, even after the person has been asked to do so. In other words, it's anything that gets posted online and is deliberately intended to hurt the person (TeensHeatlh).
Due to the advancements of technology, social media is becoming a routine part of our daily lives. It comes as no surprise that Becky calling you an expletive online hurts your feelings in the real word. The rate of cyberbullying grew proportionately in regards to electronic communication’s advancement. It is due to this, that multiple people began questioning whether social media is to blame for the notable increased occurrence of cyberbullying, sparking fierce debates. Cyberbullying is a social phenomenon that appears to have no clear instigator, but according to directors of the Anti-Defamation League, Abraham Foxman and Cyndi Silverman, the blame falls toward social media sites and its “dark underbelly”.
Hate language and bullying behavior are seen all over the world among people of all ages. Even though the United States has an amendment known as freedom of speech, there is a line that people cross when hate language and bullying are involved. This behavior happens so often that sometimes people misinterpret it. For example, people might take the usage of hate language as a joke, but in reality, it is hurtful to people and can damage people’s lives. Mary R Harman and Marilyn J Wilson, explain in chapter four in Beyond Grammar Language, power, and the classroom, that hate language and bullying behavior affects people in a destructive way, and it happens so often that people need to be aware of the hateful behavior.
Trolls are hiding all over. No, not the kind that hides under bridges and makes you solve their riddle, but the kind that would follow and stalk anyone anywhere by just them being at home; the media refers to them as internet trolls the most disgusting trolls of them all. As the year’s progresses, internet becomes more advance in which gives ordinary people access to vast amount of information and data instantly, it also allow people to post information about themselves on public sites, such as Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and many other sites. Trolling can generally be define as someone who leaves rude, controversial, or extraneous comments on different sort of media outlets in an attempt to provoke others to response back in an emotional or rude way. While comments could always be ignore, being able to express yourself in a comments shouldn’t be moderated at all, because it gives the viewer something to be entertain with, the creator of the context could always disable the
It’s proven that bad experiences are focused on more than good experiences. Online interaction can relate to this in two ways. First, the person reading the online comment may think it’s much worse than it really is. Second, humans are more prone to pay attention to the negative versus the positive input. A recent study conducted by Will Felps showed that one individual can drastically impact the rest of a group. The study applied to real life, face to face meetings but it can also be applied to the online community. Historical beliefs that groups have more power than individuals was contradicted based on the evidence discovered by Felps. The groups with one negative person did thirty to forty percent worse than groups without that person. Felps also found that our behavior is contagious and the behavior by the negative person was mirrored. A possible solution to this one negative person issue could be that the website would have someone supervise the first few hours of comments to set the right tone for everyone else reading the material.
Can I get away with this? I hope I do not get in trouble for this. People will always consider possible repercussions of their own actions, maybe not for others but certainly for themselves. The possibility is what deters most bullies from harassing other individuals and it is where the crux of the problem lies. When bullying occurs in the real world, it is easy to identify and punish the culprit immediately. However, the internet is a completely different problem. There is a constant veil of anonymity surrounding everyone and it compels people into actions or words that they necessarily would not do or say normally. Statistics show that only one in ten victims inform someone else that they are being bullied and only one in five people actually get help from the law (Meech, 2007). Even fewer cyber bullies get punished because there is a lack of evidence against most people. Coupled with the fact that people are not face-to-face for cyberbullying makes tormenting individuals easier. A bully is capable of bothering another person without giving away their identities and eliminates any human elements. Overall, the internet simply gives too much power to a bully and disadvantages the victim due to the ease and difficulty in