Who Am I Online?
Today in class, we watched a video about the context of bullying, and what it does to someone. We also learned some tips about how to end it.
Bullying, left alone, can make a victim feel alone and helpless, while the bully probably feels better about him/herself.
Online, I believe I appear as a person who will intervene. For example, when I am playing a game online with other people who are strangers, and some guy starts picking on another player. I don't reply to the bully, but give complements to the person specifically. Later, I will report whomever was bullying to whatever site I am on. A more specific example of this is when one day, I was playing on Roblox, and a player called... I can't remember- they were bullying another player called... Water-something- and they were saying how they were such a bad player and kept costing the whole group points in a group game. This was in fact not true (It was me costing the group points) and nobody really believed this guy. So, I told the victim about all the things that he did well while he was playing this particular game, and that I would report the bully. I believe that my actions made the victim feel a whole lot better about him/herself in a good way. I hope that bully got what he deserved...
Based on my appearance, I think hat people think of me as an average player or sometimes someone different from who I really am, but this isn't always the case. Some people act as how they really are on the inside, because in reality they are too scared. Therefore, I think that sometimes I am different from reality, and sometimes people are extremely true to themselves online.
The goal of internet trolls is to make other people feel pain, or bad about themselves, in order for the internet trolls to feel better about themselves.
There are many different positives and negatives caused by online anonymity. Some negatives are online predators, hackers, internet trolls. As your identity is unknown, predators can prey on unsuspecting people- free of the worry that they will be discovered. They do this by making their victims feel valued and right all the time, even when they may not be. Believing that someone gets you is the quickest way to opening up to a complete stranger with your name, address, and personal information.
Positives include the ability to be true to one's self online because no one can criticize you to your face. For example, a very smart person may feel that they want to be a sports jock, but feel as though he will be undervalued if he actually becomes one. So, online, he becomes who he wants to be, and feels that he is online, aided by online anonymity.
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