Trolling and Cyber-bullying (Reading10-lgrazios)
Based on the readings Trolling is when people who have
nothing better to do go online and start harassing other people on line just
for the fun of it. From what I could understand it is like cyber-bullying but
the people who are trolls, usually are strangers to the people they troll. As a
consequence of this they tend to disassociate the consequences of their trolls
and fail to see that there is another living and feeling person on the other
side of the troll, like what happened to Lindy West. Usually the people who
troll are just bored or want to feel better about them, and their target barely
sees their messages and comments. That is how this is different from
cyber-bullying because cyber-bullying is on a more personal level, I feel,
which in part makes it worse. Cyber-bullying is very different form regular
bullying because when you are bullied normally, you can usually just go home
and you’ll be safe from the harassment, but if you are being cyber-bullied you
can go home and the messages will still keep coming, therefore making it a
persistent and unavoidable thing. Personally I believe cyber-bullying is a
major issue online. I think what makes
it such a big issue is that the kids that do it don’t really understand how bad
what they’re doing is. For kids, doing this is just funny and they don’t really
think of the possible consequences from doing what they do. This doesn’t make
it right, but they do it for the attention and peer pressure. And there are
several types of kids who get bullied, people who can deal with it and people
who actually struggle with it and can’t cope. The worst part of this is that
the majority of kids who can’t cope with it can’t/won’t come forward and tell
someone they are a victim. This is in part because they feel like they can deal
with and end up being overwhelmed and/or they are ashamed. So I feel children
should be protected, and it is up to their parents, both of bullies and
victims, parents should be involved in their children’s lives to be able to
recognize what kind of children they are. If some one is a bullies parent they
should pay more attention to their kid and talk to them and guide him in the
right direction. And if you are a victim’s parent you have to know that your
child is being victimized and help him/her get through it by being there and
being supportive.
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