Trolling By Julie Zhuo Summary

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I read a news written by Julie Zhuo. She wrote about the influences of trolling and anonymous comments on the social network. However, at the end of reading, I agree with her thoughts “ Let’s start to rein in bad behavior by promoting accountability. Content providers, stop allowing anonymous comments. Moderate your comments and forums.” To be sure that she was right, and I can prove my agreement, I will say my opinion.
What does “trolling” mean? How it influences on the victims? Following Zhuo, she defined trolling as the act of posting inflammatory, derogatory or provocative messages in public forums, although everybody knows the meaning of trolling, they still keep use these trolling comments on the social network. As I know, this trolling behavior influential works great for those harmed. Moreover, psychological research has proven again and again that anonymity increase unethical behavior. So we should understand exactly about this problem and try to have a good behavior in from of others.
Until now, the high-tech is getting more convenient and developed, also have many applications we can use for communicate and learning. However, some applications have the function that we can write the comments, or press the button “like” or “dislike”. Then, people were abused of that function and many commenters wrote things that are rude or
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It can be influential to another, stressful, hopeless and no way out to communicate to the world. Instead of writing the trolling comments, we can write something makes people laugh or happy. In my opinion, before we start to write our comments, we should think carefully the words that we want to write on someone's personal and to not cause pity just because a saying. Having a good behavior in front of people in public places and moderate your comments and forums and use a good words will make people appreciate and

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