I gave a lot of thought of what to
write about for this blog. I decided in the end to talk about something which
is happening every day and which will probably increase sadly if not dealt
with. We all know that the internet is a gift and is there for all of us to
learn and to communicate but some people do use the internet to harass and
pursue others. I am talking about cyber bullying.
Any kind of bullying is obviously
horrible and evil but cyber bullying seems to be relentless as it can be 24/7
and can come from a number of individuals who use their mobiles technologies.
But these online bullies can remain anonymous. They may never be found out
because they can block mobile numbers and IP numbers.
Research conducted by the Dun
Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology, showed that 6.3% of Irish
children have been bullied ‘once or twice’, in the past 2-3 months and 5.5%
have been bullied at least once a week. This is a shocking statistic.
I recently heard of a new malicious
craze going across the internet. It is called ‘Trolls’. These are people who
surf the internet to intentionally provoke others. They enter forums and write
comments to annoy and they find websites that are set up in memory of the loved
one that passed away and hack the site to de-face photos are comments.
I think social media platforms need
to learn to monitor negative comments more and combat this.
The bullies need to learn that all
their actions have consequences and the ones being bullied need talk about
their treatment and realize that it is not ok.
Below I have attached a link to a
website watch campaigns to stop cyber bullying and we all need to be involved
so things do not get any worse.
This link will take you to the
article about the research conducted into cyber bullying.
http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/cyber-bullies-using-social-network-sites-104962.html#ixzz1tkfq4zav
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