From How One Stupid Tweet Blew Up Justine Sacco's Life

Brooke Posey Posey 81-85

Comp 2

Professor Williams

Cyber Bullying

Ronson, Jon. “From ‘How One Stupid Tweet Blew Up Justine Sacco's Life.’” Arguing about Literature, 2nd ed., John Schilb, pp. 81–85.

Jon Ronson spends time and interviews people who have gone through internet shaming. More specifically, he focuses this passage on Justine Sacco, who tweeted a controversial message. Sacco was then targeted for her misunderstanding of a tweet, and her whole life then flipped upside down. Ronson explains how her reputation, her job, her family, and also her dignity was taken away from her due to one innocent post.

With this short story, I will be able to provide the examples

of how one small post can destroy a person's life. By even posting a funny remark or something that doesn't seem offensive to you, can be taken another way by someone. This can cause people to go through rough times while feeling like the whole world is against you. This story gives a great perspective on what can happen on social media.

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Hemphill, Essex. “Committments.” Arguing about Literature, 2nd ed., John Schilb, pp. 399–400.

Commitments is a poem about Essex life and hardships as he grew up as a black homosexual man. He is describe as an outcast compared to the rest of the kids, and also calls himself the “invisible child.” Even though he feels alone during this time of his life, he was still always smiling in family pictures, acting like he wasn't broken inside. This poem gives the readers a typical situation of what gay or lesbians go through each day and how lonely they can actually feel.

I can relate this poem to the topic of my story by describing how certain kids feel, but they put on a face to the audience. He tells his audience that since he doesnt want the judgement of his peers or family, he keeps to himself and does not want to disappoint anyone. I can relate this to my topic by also stating how him stating he doesnt want to cause any drama between his family, he will keep his homosexuality to himself.

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Brooks, Rosa.

“Recline, Dont ‘Lean In.’” Arguing about Literature, 2nd ed., John Schilb, pp. 416–419.

This story written by Rosa Brooks describes her issues with Sheryl Sandberg. Brook describes throughout her story that by leaning in too much can cause a person to easily burnout. By “leaning in,” all of your time will be sucked up and can destroy all parts of your life. Brooks gives another example of doing life, which is “reclining.” She believes that taking time out of your life by not working and actually enjoying a peaceful life, is more significant than doing everything all at once and burning out easily.

This can give another side or perspective of the topic I chose. I will be able to explain how Sheryl proposes to go at everything with full force, even if you burn out quickly. By having these statements online will cause women to lose focus on the simple things in life and not be able to actually enjoy peaceful and quiet moments to themself. I can also relate this by showing how Brooks is contradicting to her statements so this gives women two different opposing

sides.

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Ehmke, Rachel.

“How Using Social Media Affects Teenagers.” Child Mind Institute, Child Mind Institute, 30 Mar. 2018, childmind.org/article/how-using-social-media-affects-teenagers/amp/.

This website explains how many adults are worrying about the effects that technology/social media has on the lives of a great percentage of teenagers. This website explains the major themes of indirect communication, cyberbullying and stalking. The major point this website is trying to get across is how social media and texting have become so prominent in the lives of teenagers that it has caused anxiety and major depression in some people. The website also gives many tips that parents can do to lower the amount of social media is used.

I will be able to use this in my final research paper by providing facts of the effects of social media on teenagers. In this website, it gives multiple examples of what can happen online to anyone. By using this article, I will be able to prove how much social media can hurt a person's life and the consequences that can happen if used incorrectly.

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Hurlsey, Katie. “Social Media and Teens: How Does Social Media Affect Mental Health?”PsyCom.net - Mental Health Treatment Resource Since 1986, 2018,

www.psycom.net/social-media-teen-mental-health.

This article gives an example and the results of someone spending too much time on social media, and what effects it can have on the outlook of someones life. They go through the questions and concerns of the lack of research that is provided, and how social media is constantly changing. The article also gives the upsides and positives of social media and also the negative and downsides. They provide another example of how many people only focus on the “amount of likes” or the “amount of retweets or favorites” a person can get.

I can use this article to provide a real life example of how social media can change one's perspective on life. By giving an example, it will gain the reader's trust and make them realize how real this situation is. I can also relate this back to my topic by also contradicting myself and giving a few examples of the upsides and positivity on social media.