When talking about relationships on the internet, I can go back to one of my very first friends. His name is Mike, I met him when I was 10-12 something like that on a local billboard (Yes this was before the actual internet) Call Shadow scape. We played, probably the nerdiest text based game of all time together called Tradewars. No you don't know what it is... Lets just leave it at that... Like Nancy's friend Markus we had something in common. She had his sweedish music, and Mike was one of the best at this game, till I joined in. Funny thing is I remember at the time my parents didn't understand what was going on they just knew some guy named Mike was calling the house asking questions about a text based game that they thought was us hacking into the government or something. They did take my computer because of this... And with all honesty there was some sort of foul play just not with the government... Anyway, to this day I talk with him on AOL (IM) literally daily. We play Xbox together and help eachother out with daily stress issues... BUT to use my example from before if I was moving I would never call him for help and vise versa. It's not that I or he wouldn't help me, it's just that we don't talk aside from the computer or Xbox so we don't think to talk to the other to ask for help. Eventhough I have known him YEARS longer than anyone else, and he may know more about me than even some of my family members. He is still not in my core group of freinds.
Cyberbullying...
The Pew report wouldn't load on my computer for some reason so I was not able to read the 2007 report but I did look up the report from 2010...
This was the report I read...
http://www.pewinternet.org/Presentations/2010/May/Cyberbullying-2010.aspx
The stats are not all that shocking to me, I see myself engaging in many of these myself from the daily routine that is (not the bullying)
To be completly honest its VERY shocking to see that only 32% of teens are bullied on the internet... I will say however it is VERY shocking to findout that 26% of teens are bullied on their cell phones, the problem I have with this statistic is that they don't specify what core of friends are doing the "bullying". Are they random people? If so this is disturbing... Are they close friends that already have the number? How do people get the numbers to bully these kids? These are questions that would skew this report a little, because if the student gives out the number to someone who in turn bullys them I don't think you can contribute that to the internet as part of "Internet Communication"
Ah this brings me to "Spam"
Outlawed by the Government in 2003-2004 Spam used to be a GREAT way for X rated sites to make a killing. I knew quite a few people who did it.. Spamming now is more about harassment and seeing 54% of teens receive spam messages is amazing, it really makes me feel like the giovernment outlawing something makes a difference... (not really) Spam messages (the majority of the time) are the end user's fault. People don't just guess Cell phone numbers. These kids have given their numbers to someone who has sold it to the highest bidder, I know because I have seen this happen 100s of times but back then it was about emails rather than cell phone numbers.
Seeing that social network users are bullied more often is not suprising either, ladies don't put a cute picture of yourself on facebook and not expect creepys to come out of the woodwork and harass you. I wouldn't consiter this bullying more or less just being stupid.
For some reason the Ling Reading would not load either and I was not successful in finding it through Google so I will comment with my updates on this reading tomorrow when I get to work and have access to another computer... I hope you enjoyed the Blog!
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"seeing 54% of teens receive spam messages is amazing".
ReplyDeleteNot when you stop and think about all these commercials that are (or at least, used to be) on late night tv that the teens are up watching at all hours of the night. "Text 1234 to 5678 to vote for your favorite this or that" followed by two minutes of fine print scrolling past at a blur on the bottom half of the screen so fast there is no way to read it. Next thing they know, they've sighed up for all kinds of text messaging crap. To be honest, though, I haven't been up past 10:00pm in a long time and watched anything other than the news and maybe David Letterman. But, I'll bet if you turn in a teen oriented channel at 1:00am it will be filled with such commercials,
I feel the same way, I had friends to that I met off the social networking site. The more we talk the more I felt like I know them better than myself. The long conversations and the hours of texing brought us closer to realizing the genuine of good convo.
ReplyDeleteI think the bullying stat is alarming and sad. I am curious to see how this plays out over time. What solutions are even out there to stob cyberbullying? Hmmm...I don't know.
ReplyDeleteI talk to a lot of people on twitter and we socialize daily as if we known each other for years. I have two twitter friends who I speak with all day every day, the crazy thing is they probobley can't pick me out in a line-up if I was standing in their faces. lol
ReplyDeleteI read over the past year, a New York Times article about cyber-bullying being tied into schools and how the New York government was on its way to helping the issue die off. Basically, the NYC gov is training individuals to bring babies and their mothers into classrooms of the below junior high level of students, and with the baby, the students are to decipher what emotion the baby is portraying by facial expressions and sounds. This has apparently triggered some emotional phenomena with the younger students into realizing that the interpretation causes them to have a "happy" feeling in observation. Furthering their interpretive emotions and tying them in to cyber bullying? apparently the numbers have dropped ever so slightly in cyber bully casualties.
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