In September of 2015 the world lost another precious young life. Rebecca Sedwick leapt from an abandoned concrete plant and ended her life (Jenson). This incident was brought about because of harassment on social media. Harassment on social media is just as hurtful online as it is in person. Social media is creating a social problem in this antisocial country that may only be solved by changing the culture. Young people of America have been influenced poorly by the media. The media tells all young people of this world, that in order to be popular and cool they must have the greatest amount of likes friends or followers. Social media enables people to communicate through a medium that requires no face to face interaction. With this unnatural
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With this saddening situation about this young woman people take a step back and think about what is really happening in this generation. With this a generation is controlled by many apps or websites. One of the many apps is Facebook. Facebook many times showcases videos that humiliate people. These videos are able to be shared so millions may see them leaving the victim in despair. The app twitter shows a whole new side of many people. People who use twitter often feel invincible and think they can get away with anything this creates oodles of problems. All of the apps and websites are excuses for kids not to interact face to face. This then lessons their capability to talk through public and private speaking. With these now anti-social medias where does the world go.
Cyber bullying is very common and dangerous form of bullying. This ranges from putting mean and hateful videos up on …show more content…
Twitter is a site that allows people to write something about themselves other users and things happening throughout the world that grabs their attention. A new trend called a subtweet is taking the youth of the world by storm. Sub tweeting, it is the act of typing a public passive aggressive post about someone or something. Subtweets are under one hundred and forty characters and do not directly designate who they are for, but are left to the reader’s discretion. Many diverse translations of the meaning are found by the readers. Only the author truly knows who it is for and what it means. This makes it dangerous. If more people read it they may get the feeling it is about them and start drama between the two people. After that the snowball effect begins ending with multiple sides and opinions of what happened and who is right. According to Spradin many campuses have already taken action to combat the act of subtweeting in college (2015). Twitter 's easy accessibility has made it easy for many people to use. Since the app is so widespread many different people with many different backgrounds can access it creating disputes and fights. When fights occur there is never a definite winner only a loser and a bigger
With this saddening situation about this young woman people take a step back and think about what is really happening in this generation. With this a generation is controlled by many apps or websites. One of the many apps is Facebook. Facebook many times showcases videos that humiliate people. These videos are able to be shared so millions may see them leaving the victim in despair. The app twitter shows a whole new side of many people. People who use twitter often feel invincible and think they can get away with anything this creates oodles of problems. All of the apps and websites are excuses for kids not to interact face to face. This then lessons their capability to talk through public and private speaking. With these now anti-social medias where does the world go.
Cyber bullying is very common and dangerous form of bullying. This ranges from putting mean and hateful videos up on …show more content…
Twitter is a site that allows people to write something about themselves other users and things happening throughout the world that grabs their attention. A new trend called a subtweet is taking the youth of the world by storm. Sub tweeting, it is the act of typing a public passive aggressive post about someone or something. Subtweets are under one hundred and forty characters and do not directly designate who they are for, but are left to the reader’s discretion. Many diverse translations of the meaning are found by the readers. Only the author truly knows who it is for and what it means. This makes it dangerous. If more people read it they may get the feeling it is about them and start drama between the two people. After that the snowball effect begins ending with multiple sides and opinions of what happened and who is right. According to Spradin many campuses have already taken action to combat the act of subtweeting in college (2015). Twitter 's easy accessibility has made it easy for many people to use. Since the app is so widespread many different people with many different backgrounds can access it creating disputes and fights. When fights occur there is never a definite winner only a loser and a bigger