Monday, December 5, 2016

Our society is one with many problems. Some of which are completely foolish. One, for example, is internet trolling. This is were unintelligent individuals who have nothing better to do with there life make fun of and bring down other people. This, to me, makes no sense. Life is to short to spend making others feel bad. This problem is only rising and there aren't many ways the internet is combating this. The only way I feel this problem can be done away with is that if people who see this happening stand up for those being bullied. I do not believe that taking the anonymity away from people is the answer to the problem. This would just create outrage for those who aren't abusing this privilege. The answer is that the internet must shut people like that down before they can push someone of the edge. The next time any of you see this happening, just stand up and defend whoever is being attacked. this is how we can fix it. This doesn't only apply to the internet, it also applies to real life.  

2 comments:

  1. While making others feel bad is a problem (bullying, as you call it), I believe standing up to the bully is only necessary in real life.

    Standing up to internet trolls could possibly make the situation worse as you are giving the troll the attention that they want. Usually when this happens, they find a way to sustain the conflict.

    However, the best thing to do is to not give them any attention; don't respond to them. This way, they get bored faster. Instigators will not continue to do what they're doing if they don't get what they want.

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  2. I agree that taking away anonymity would only cause things to get worse between people online. The best way to deal with these internet trolls is to just ignore them or report them on the social media site, though this doesn't seem to help as much as it should. I also think that if you stand up to internet trolls, it will not make much of a difference because they are insensitive and will just fight back with more rude comments.

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