Bullying Video Response

​Today we watched an animated video on bullying and its effect on people. In relation to that, we did an assignment on our identity on the internet and how we are portrayed by our social media.


The video we watched today about bullying really showed me how people feel when they are bullied. When you are bullied, even if the things people say aren't true, you begin to believe the lies you are fed and eventually this effects your self esteem. Online, I monitor myself pretty well. I don't curse or cyber bully other people. Once you put something on the internet, even if you delete it, it still resembles and embodies things that you associate yourself with, good or bad. I think that people think of me as a good kid who likes baseball. The goal of internet trolls are just to make you feel you feel horrible and to draw attention to themselves. A
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Vivian Pham- PART 2: Reflection

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  1. The video that we watched in class today showed a boy name Jack getting bullied in school and there are emoji's on the video at certain parts where when we click on it, it shows what should happen. Like when Jack thought a guy was going to hit him, when the emoji gets clicked on it shows him giving him a high five
  2. What does this video bring to your mind in reference to the topic of bullying? The topic of bullying is very strong and sensitive, and it is something that everyone has either experienced or saw happen in their lifetime. And many know that bullying is a very harsh thing that has a huge impact on the person who is getting bullied. Bullying can mean more than just words, it can mean actions, and the results of getting bullied.
  3. Who are you online, how do you appear? There isn't much content about me personally, but there is a lot of content about those with the same name as me
  4. How do you think people perceive you, based on this appearance? I think people may perceive me as someone who does go on social media a lot, and social media is a big part of my life. And I spend a huge majority of my free time online just surfing the web. 
  5. What is the goal of internet trolls? to make someone online feel bad by posting inappropriate comments on their social media or upsetting them in any way using their words. They would do anything to make anyone feel bad. 
  6. What are the positive and negative results of online anonymity? The positive results of online anonymity is maybe being able to post anything or say anything online like on a blog post or something without anyone finding out your identity regarding posting something. The negative results of anonymity would probably have to be if someone were to cyberbully someone or send threats and this person who is getting bullied wants to tell someone or report this person, this person wouldn't be able to because this person is anonymous

We looked at this web page to describe Internet Trolls - LINK

Reflection

1. We watched a video against and for the prevention of bullying.
2. If you see bullying happening stop it.
3. I don't have much of an identity of me online, but there are people with the same name that are very successful.
4.  People may see me as a person who done a lot in their life, but that is a lie.
5. To upset people.
6. The positive is that nice people who are shy can speak to you, the negative is that some people can hide being rude behind a mask.

Who am I ONLINE? by Sean DeSilva

Today, in Mrs. Hulls class we watched a short little animation called "I Am A Witness". While watching the video I thought to myself, "Wow, poor kid.. he did nothing to those three kids and yet they still bully him." I was thinking to myself, what I would have done if I were in his shoes. Bullying has been going on for years. To kids calling people names on the bus, to physically hurting them and even Online Bullying, called "Cyberbullying". Try your best to avoid bullying because once you get yourself into it, it's hard for you to get out of it. And it might not just be you that gets yourself into it, it might just be the bully himself/herself that just picks on you knowing that you can't do anything about it. So please, stand up for yourself if you're being bullied, and if you see someone else being bullied/picked on, don't just stand their and watch tell an adult. Because watching someone being bullied is worse than being the bully!
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1.The video  we watched in class was “I am witness” Bullying video. The classroom activity today was to tell a grown up if this was ever to happen to you and that you should never do this to someone else. http://iwitnessbullying.org/

2. This video brings to my mind in reference to the topic of Bullying is when someone being mean to someone in a hurtful way.

3. I am this random girl on google and I only have a picture of me on google. I appear as this girl from Housewives of Atlanta.

4. I think people perceive me maybe our names are kinda similar or face or race.

5. The goal of internet trolls is someone who post comments to be other people down.

6.. The positive and negative results of online anonymity are the people who score high on the Dark Tetrad said trolling was their favorite activity on internet and the people who score low on the Dark Tetrad except trolls their scores for the four traits increase on the chart.


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Reflection-Sydney Rogers

Today in class we watched the "I am A Witness" video. The video was about a boy named Jack who was being bullied by a group of his classmates. First we watched the video without clicking on the emoji, and then we watched the video and we clicked on the emoji and Jack wasn't bullied and his story ended up happier when we clicked the emoji. This video made me think about how bullying isn't always a public issue but there are so many ways for a bully to hide themselves. There are different types of bullying too that so many people are unaware of and they don't even see it happening right before their eyes because it's hidden. 
I am someone who has multiple social media accounts, but I mainly use Snapchat and Instagram. I'm not a bully online and I haven't ever witnessed someone being bullied online, but if I ever do see something going on then I would say something or tell someone who could stop it. I don't think I'm a whole lot different from other people who are online. I keep to myself, I don't comment rude things or say anything to people online or anything like that. All my accounts online are private and although Snapchat can't really be private you can control who views your snaps and who can send you snaps and even when people add me as a friend I have the option to block them, deny them as a friend or let them add me. I think people perceive me based on this appearance as basically a pretty average teenager. I'm not so incredibly different from any other person online. I post pictures of myself and me and my friends, I don't talk about other people on any social media in a negative way. There isn't anything that separates me drastically from other teenagers my age I don't think. 

The goal of internet trolls is to get attention. They want to get a rise out of the person that the'ye bullying. Their whole purpose of cyber bullying someone is to get some form of attention from someone. Most cyber bullies remain anonymous which makes it harder for the person who is getting bullied to stop them or face them. When your bully is anonymous in a way they have more power over you because they can torment you all they want without having to deal with any consequences when the person being bullied can't stop them as easily and it makes it harder for the adult who is supposed to stop the bully. A positive point for a bully to stay anonymous is that it usually means that because they've chosen to bully you online as supposed to in person means they are too afraid to go up to you in person. I think it depends on the circumstances, but if you are only getting bullied online then that should mean that you are at least getting somewhat of a break from the negative vibes. 
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Who I Am Online Reflection, Lucien Hearn

    Today in class we watched a video on bullying, created by the "I am a witness" campaign. This video, in my opinion, is stupid. Granted, I've never really been bullied in real life, people online have tried to bully me. Honestly, I don't understand why people care because whenever people try to insult me online, I just mess with them until they get really frustrated and give up. To me, this is hilarious, and all of those people are just morons. When people take these words to heart, I'm very confused, and I assume it's because they don't use the internet much. If you use the internet a lot, make any sort of content, play games, or really do anything online, after a week or two you learn what to take to heart and what not to. It gives you a thick skin, and you don't care anymore. This is the reason that when something "bad" happens to me, I just brush it off. If it happens to someone else, I'm confused if they're legitimately hurt, in a metaphorical sense. When you google my name, you get many results in images for boxers, after a few pictures of projects that I've made. Besides this, you see my Facebook and Google+ page. After this, you see nothing relating to me, and every name is different from mine. But to people that know me online, I just seem like a guy who likes video-games. People perceive me different based on how well they know me, as well as how they are discovering me. People will constantly talk about how "internet trolls" are malicious people who are psychopaths etc. They may be, however, usually they are just people who don't have anything to do, and so they use their time to just see others get angry, frothing at the mouth. Usually, people just ignore them and don't care, and someone who regularly uses the internet and is a part of the community knows how to spot one. The positive side of anonymity is that you can have privacy even online, and not everything you do or say needs to be seen by everyone. The negative side of anonymity is that sometimes, people can leave rude comments and won't have to deal with consequences. I'd like to end this post with one thing: you will not have more knowledge on a subject that someone who is at the core of that subject. I'm not saying that I'm the absolute expert, but you won't know exactly what happens if you only look at the information and don't experience it. The image In this post is of what every "troll" on the internet is. A stupid angry kid.
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ILP Reflection

For my ILP, I am volunteering at my previous school Kearny Elementary/Middle School located on 6th and Fairmount. So far I have went there two times and things have been going great. Its nice to see some of my old teachers and principle and help my previous school's community out the best way I can. I am looking forward to helping Kearny's basketball team and other athletics programs involving the students. Maybe an assistant coach spot, which I have hands on experience with by previously having this job with my basketball unit outside of school. One thing that stood out to me while volunteering for these 2 days, was how much my school has changed since I left. With most of the teachers leaving and Kearny having to replace them with new ones, a lot has changed, but I'm prepared to adapt all over again during my time there for ILP. I feel its important for me to come every Wednesday and have fun doing my time with the school I attended as a young boy to a young adult! 

ILP // Gear Up office

I don't remember exactly the day I first went to my ILP but I went twice. My ILP is that I am an intern at the Gear Up office at the school district building. The first time I went was a meeting and that went really well. It went well because before the meeting there was a me when each team was collaborating and the team that I was in wanted to hear my opinion and wanted me to participate. I am looking forward to keep going to my ILP and to really learn what Gear Up does. Something that stands out is how open people are to hear other people's opinion. It is a very friendly environment. I think it is important that young students learn about college and the opportunities that are given to them.

The Collection of The Album, "Power." By Ameer Forte and Isabella Beato

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In our project we decided to make up an influential album called "Power." by a white female. The purpose of this project was to highlight the themes, race and gender. Throughout our made up album our artist, Isabella Nella, brings out the importance of equality for all from a unique perspective. Her being a white female she is aware she is a rarity in the rap industry, and so her voice transcended very powerfully to the audiences listening to her album which we showed in our audience response(Which is the part of the project where an audience responds to the piece we've created). Our audience response is a review of the album on the popular album review website Pitchfork, but most of the other components of our project fit into that review also. The album cover(which is the press release, which is the part of our project where the album is released to the public through some symbol of some sort which for us is the album cover) is in the review and some other album suggestions or albums that influenced "Power."(Which is the Cultural Fabric, which is the part of this project where we connected our album to actual albums that influenced our thinking in creating our album) are in that review as well. The final component of our project is an add on to our audience response, which is a social media response by our audience. That is shown above. To conclude, our project highlights race and gender through the eyes of a white female rapper who has a message that is very influential as she attempts to change the world by preaching equality for all no matter race or gender. 

ILP

For my ILP I am helping Ms. Dianne in her office with the phone and running simple errands. Its fun because I get to speak to many parents and kids who are excited about becoming a part of the SLA community.  We also get a lot of strange calls though, for example a woman called asking if age mattered when applying to SLA. I said no thinking it was a 12 year old who was currently in the 8th grade. Turns out it was a 27 year old woman who never finished 8th grade. I was just shocked and passed over the phone to Ms. Dianne. Overall I like my ILP, and I feel like i'm really going to miss it when I go to my new ILP in January.

Digital Age- Q1 Benchmark (Malwina Dymek and Olivia Mack)

​     We chose to write about technology because currently in this 21st century, the majority of society is exposed or addicted to technology. We wanted to provide people with information of a different perspective and lifestyles that doesn’t involve technology and the idea of social media. To conclude to the end of the project we researched excessively and connected this novel to the modern day.


Trash: An Emo's Tale

If we assume the Metamoraphsis is a perfect representation of the modernist era, then what represents our time? 

We chose to make something somewhat satirical, making fun of the stigma around mental illness despite the rampant rise in diagnoses and the availablity of information that this generation has. We felt that these issues were best represented in the form of a book, as it gave us space to give detail and show day to day life for the main character, Callie. We set up a Twitter and a Tumblr account as our main character, post as if we were this character. Due to it's satirical nature, these social media pages make light of heavy subjects. We also made a book trailer promoting this work of fiction as well as an audiobook preview which can be found in the links below. 

Book trailer, audiobook, and review can be found here: http://panic-at-the-daddy-issues.weebly.com/project-materials 

The Dull And Ameer Show

Q1 Benchmark // Contemporary Kafkaesque

For connecting themes of this era through the literature of today, this is the ultimate project. To us, what defines this era is comedy, and it is fed to us through the fruits of the labor of previous eras. Throughout human history comedy has been prevalent. Kings had jesters, towns had circuses, however in no other era than today has comedy been so widely integrated into everyday life. Not just the everyday child's playful humor, but adult humor as well has evolved. It is now acceptable, often without prosecution, to say many politically incorrect things as long as this evolved concept of comedy is tagged onto it. Through this project we explore the thing that governs our social lives; the thing that has evolved so adeptly to such an extreme extent in humans that it defines us; the thing that eases our souls of grimace and pushes us towards good time and witty thought. What we explore here is a little thing called comedy; the theme that defines this era.

The Planning Doc - here
Some Alt Audience Response In Video Comments - here

Messele Asfaw - Reflection

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The video we watched in class today, we witnessed a boy named Jack, who continusly,
  1. This video brings up the topic of people witnessing bullying and not doing anything about it.
  2. I am no one online, and I appear as multiple things that I've done online.
  3. People think that I am an academic person. This is not the case.
  4. To make people feel bad about themselves and interrupt the conversation.
  5. A positive thing is that you can be secure and safe online, and a negative thing is that it is harder to identify you online.

Reflection - Lauren Nicolella

1. Today when we watched the video in the beginning of class, the activity we did was make Jack's day better when we pressed the eye emoji, since the focus was to stop the bullying that would happen to him. 

2. This video brought to mind how bullying is a terrible thing to be involved in, and you need to speak up immediately if something were to happen to you or someone else. 

3. Online, I am a fangirl who talks about One Direction and 5 Seconds of Summer. I appear to be a nice person who shares interests in the same bands with people so I am safely talking to people online. 

4. I think that people perceive me as an enthusiastic person who deeply loves bands and loves to be with her friends because of the constant contact on social media. 
 
5. The goal on internet trolls is to confuse, hurt, and damage people deeply. They don't care about peoples' feelings and are very disruptive and have no real reason to why they do it in the first place.

6. The positive and negative results of online anonymity is that people can talk to you if you're shy, but then could also talk to you to try and get info from you and be negative.

Who am I Online? -Jason Chen

​Today in class wer watched a video about bullying. An actively we did was to search up your name on google and see what pops up.
The video brings to mind how much negatively things that people can do and how people can counter it.
Who am i online? When i search myself online nothing pops up but a Singer with my name.
Maybe people may think im a singer just because my name is Jason Chen.
The goal of internet troll is that they are horrible people that whats you to suffer for their pleasure, so make sure to just ignore them.
The negative effect are they are just here to mess around so ignore them

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Today in class we watched a video called "I witnessed bullying" we had to look up our self and our partner's on google. The video really showed how people feel after a day of bullying when someone doesn't do anything and a day of bullying when someone does speak up. I am a photo of myself online. People percieve me as whatever they want to think as funny or even stupid I don't really care.The goal of internet trolls is to make people feel bad and they feed off of people and this keeps fueling them to keep trolling them. Online anonymity is good for security billing which is when you order something and you can talk to the delivery company the negative effect is people can get hurt by what people say.

Technology Reflection, Flores

The video we watched in class was an I Am A Witness video. The video consisted of a boy named Jack (probably in middle or high school) who got bullied in school, at the bus stop, and online. The activity we had to do today revolved around us looking up ourselves and explaining in detail what we saw. After doing this, we partnered up with someone and looked up their name. We were then supposed to give them five words to explain what we saw, even if there wasn’t a picture of them there. After we got five words from our partner, we were supposed to elaborate on their observations and say whether those words were an accurate representation of us.  

This video brought cyber bullying to my mind and also the fact that in the video, the bystanders didn’t do anything. The kind of bullying in the video and more vicious abuse (verbal and physical) in real life are the types of things that brings teens with low self esteem to think of committing suicide. I’ve heard of many teen suicide stories because my mom has a Masters in Human Behavior. she had unit on suicides and bullying. Words sometimes hurt more than or equivalent to getting punched in the face.  

On the internet, I don’t show up if you look up my first and last. I’m mostly anonymous on the internet. I am on social media, though. The site I use mainly is Instagram. However, I do have Facebook that I don’t really use. On both my Instagram and Facebook. I post pictures about my life and positive quotes. I think people perceive me as a nice person. I don’t really comment unless it’s something nice about one of my friend’s pages. The goal of Internet trolls is to derive pleasure from your response and pain about their verbal abuse. They want to feel superior and make someone upset. When you are anonymous on the Internet, you don’t really reveal your identity unless you choose not to use an alias. However, if someone is bullying you and you don’t know who they are, that can definitely be scary and upsetting.


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A Day In Technology Class (Reflection) - William Huang

In class, we watched a video about a boy by the name of Jack. Throughout the video, Jack gets bullied by what seemed like his classmates. During each of those instances, we are give the choice to press an "eye" emoji, which turns the bad situation into an alternate, positive one. Then, we did an activity on Canvas where we checked what our online profile was like.

In reference to the topic of bullying, this video brings to my mind just how scary and lonely it can be to get bullied.

Online, I almost do not exist. After the search, all I found were some comments I posted on YouTube a while back, and a blocked-off Facebook page that might by mine.

There really isn't much on the internet for people to perceive me by, considering how limited my appearance is. 

The goal of internet trolls is to make other people's day miserable. Not exactly, but they find joy in doing so.

The positive aspect of online anonymity is that people won't be able to identify who you are. At the same time, the negative aspect of online anonymity is that you won't be able to identify other people either. This way, if you happen to ever by preyed upon, you would never know who the person on the other side is -- the person who is doing it.
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Learning About Bullies - David Roberts

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Today in Tech class, we watched a very sad video. A kid, by the name of Jack, was being bullied at school. Then, after watching the video, we googled ourselves. We had to reflect on what we saw. With the topic of bullying in mind, this video brings to mind how many people are bullied and how many people people see bullying and then do nothing to stop it. This happens a lot all over the world. When I googled myself, I did not find anything about me. Throughout my life, I have not put anything about me online. This is why I did not find about myself. Since there is nothing online about me, there is not a lot of things to perceive me as. One thing we learned about is trolls. The goal of internet trolls is to make people hate themselves. To make people's days miserable. Trolls love it when they make people mad. The positive things about anonymity is that you do not have to give away your personal information and put it on the internet. The negatives of anonymity is that you do not know who is behind that screen name. It could be anyone. You just don't know. 

Contemporary Kafkaesque Project / Q1 Benchmark (Gina and Eamon)

PRESS RELEASE:

​For our project, we decided to focus on the themes of identity and connections. Due to our combined level of creativity, we chose to present these two themes in the form of a film trailer. I collaborated with Gina Sorgentoni on this project.
AUDIENCE RESPONCE: 

Below is a transcript of an interview of the director of "Unknown Connections", Eamon Kelly:

INTERVIEW TRANSCRIPT


The film of the summer,”Unknown Connections,” directed by Eamon Kelly and starring Gina Sorgentoni. The film about a teenage girl named Lucy and her blog kept secret from her peers. The film shows her  growth and change from childhood to adulthood in the digital age. The film has taken a new direction in the coming-of-age genre and has taken the cinematic world by storm. We were lucky enough to have an interview with Eamon Kelly and ask him about his upcoming film.


So we are here today to discuss your upcoming coming-of-age film “Unknown Connections” A story of a young teenage girl named Lucy running a secret blog. If you could Mr. Kelly tell me about your film?

Well, like you just described, it’s about a teenager named Lucy. She’s a pretty normal girl just like the others in school, except she secretly has a blog in which she writes about her daily experiences. Her blog is very popular at her school, but he twist is that no one knows the identity of the blogger. When the students find out it is Lucy, she has to deal with a lot of changes.


What type of changes?

Well, changes as how she views herself. She has been used to living in the bubble of a blog for so long, she could get by without interacting with others in her life she would observe them and then write about them in her blog. But now that she is “outed” so to speak, she is forced into a social situation she isn’t very used to. You see her growth in the film, you see her starting out as a shy and quiet teenager, who like most teens is uncomfortable with who she is, to becoming a young adult who is starting to accept who she is. It is something that even full grown adults struggle with, so I wanted teenagers to have someone to sort of look up to while they are going through it themselves.


Are there any particular themes you added into the film?

Yes. If you pay close attention to the movie, you’ll notice a mix of identity and connections, hence the title. I knew from the start that I wanted this movie to fall under the “coming-of-age” genre, and I then decided that I wanted to include the element of social media. These days, people are connecting with each other through Facebook, Instagram, Twitter or even Snapchat. That helped me create the concept of a teenager connecting with the world through one small blog account. As for identity, I knew that Lucy would have a very popular blog, especially around her school, but I wanted her identity to be kept secret for a plot twist. I asked myself, “Why does she want no one to know who this blogger is?” And that is what would draw the audience in.


Given this is a coming of age film, you obviously feel that those themes are something many teenagers deal with regularly?

Without a question, teenagers today have so much pressure put onto them by social media. Of course it keeps everyone connected and in contact with one another, but teens today not only have this pressure to grow up and deal with school and peers inside of school, but they also have to deal with that their peers say outside of school. And they are they first generation to deal with that, in the film you can see the gap between Lucy and her parents. Simply because they never grew up with this never ending social pressure, they could go home and relax, no pressure. But Lucy’s generation has this constant pressure, her generation had to grow up quicker. They don’t have the luxury of “just being kids” because it is out there online where it can be scrutinized by anyone and everyone.


Now still on the coming-of-age topic, many if not all viewers of your film will notice that it doesn’t focus on love interests or relationships. Can you explain why you chose not to go this route?

Well, I’ve seen many coming-of-age movies, drama, even comedies that all have some sort of romantic element. I wanted to take Unknown Connections in a new direction of the genre and not focus on romantic interests. I wanted the struggle of her character to be highlighted. I feel that it is so easy for mainstream media to take away from the character for the sake of them having a love interest. A character could go through magnificent things, but all you guys would care about is “Which guy will she pick?” I didn’t want that for Lucy. I wanted to show young teenagers that you can be living a happy life without necessarily having a love interest. That they can overcome things, and do amazing things without having a romantic partner.


Interesting. So, you described Lucy as a somewhat shy and quiet teenager, but a different person when she’s blogging. What was your thought process for creating Lucy?

Well, from the start, I wanted Lucy to be a big role model, but kind of also a teacher. I want teenagers to watch this film, teens like Lucy specifically, and learn to be more open with the world. Everyone understands that we become different people online. I think it’s important for people to interact with the world outside of social media. It is so easy for people to interact online, but so difficult to do the same things in person. I wanted that highlighted in the film, so that in a way, the movie is sort of a lesson.


Was there any important symbolism behind the cinematography in your film?

Taking from what I’ve said about Lucy, the themes of identity and connections, the social media element, I wanted to make sure I have shots of Lucy, Russ and the rest of the cast socializing with each other. I wanted to show how they interact with each other, and how Lucy interacts differently when she’s blogging alone in her room.


But isn’t her interaction while blogging just between her and her laptop?

It is easy to see it that way yes, but you have to think about the audience she is reaching out too. She writes the blog for herself, but in doing so is impacting all the other people who read it. She is bringing them joy though what she does, the students speak of the blogger like they are a friend. And Lucy knowing that begins to also write for her peers, there is this unspoken connection that they all have with each other.


CULTURAL FABRIC:

Here is a movie review of "Unknown Connections" from an online film critic known as Ralph. (We created the character) Take alook at what he thinks of the film...

Reflection

In class today, we watched a video about witnessing bullying. A boy got bullied by kids and we pressed a button to see what would happen if a witness spoke up. The classroom activity was finding out who we are online. We googled ourselves and wrote about what we saw. It makes me think about how many kids in the world are getting bullied and it also makes me think about all the people seeing these kids get bullied and are just watching and not doing anything to stop it. Online I appear as old bald dudes. People perceive me as an old bald guy. The goal of internet trolls is to make people angry. They put all of their energy into making people feel bad and creating situations to hurt and discourage people. The positive results of online anonymity are that you stay protected from weirdos. The negative results are people use online anonymity to hurt people without having their identity given up.

Who am I online?

Today in class we watched a video about bullying. The video was centered around a boy and how he was bullied throughout his day. Throughout the video, there was an eye button at the bottom. If you pressed it, the outcome of the video would change, and the video would have a happier ending. The premise of the video was to promote an eye emoji, which was meant to be used against cyberbullying as a way of saying, "That's not okay!" to people who were harmful to others. It makes me glad that people are really taking a stand against bullying online, which is a more recent, yet more harmful form of bullying.
One of the biggest flukes with the internet is the sheer anonymity that comes with it. Most websites make you go under a username. This username could tell everyone who you are, or give no information as to who you are. This makes it almost impossible to pinpoint the person behind the screen, which can be good or bad in certain cases. Anonymity makes it somewhat hard to find a person, so stalking someone over the internet isn't easy. However, being anonymous on the internet makes it easy to get away with trolling and cyberbullying without consequences. 
When I, or any other person for that matter, is on the internet, it's very hard to get a good first impression on me (or anyone). In the real world, people tend to make impressions of people even before they speak. On the internet, that is impossible. What you write through messages, what you tell other people, and the tone of your writing is the only impression others will have. Based on how I send someone online a message is the primary way they'll get a grasp of what kind of person I am, so that can vary. I could be a perfectly fine person, or I could be a troll, someone who causes disruption, anger, or general frustration in others through the internet. I try to never portray myself as someone who would be harmful to others over the internet, and I don't think anyone I meet online thinks of me very negatively, unless they're an extreme pessimist.
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Who Am I Online- Autumn Jerman

In class today we watched a video twice on I am a witness.org and it portrayed a boys day when no one would defend him from his bullies and the second time we watched how his day would go if people would have the courage to stand up or just have a different kind of heart. What this video brings to mind is how a simple act of kindness can help someone get through there day. Online I think I see my self as someone who is confident and will stand up for what they believe in. People may perceive me as a young 12 year old who has passion. Online everywhere there are trolls I believe trolls main focus is to make others feel like they're alone, that they aren't important in the world or anywhere. A positive about being  of online anonymity is that you can complement others and they will feel good about them self because a stranger compliemnted them
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