Trolls Among Us

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In today’s generation we have so many people with their opinions that aren’t often needed. We have a world filled with so many egos and everyone wanting to be heard that people being to lurk around and trolling accounts. If you’re unsure what trolling is well here’s a clear definition “make a deliberately offensive or provocative online post with the aim of upsetting someone or eliciting an angry response from them (English Oxford Living Dictionaries).” Yeah trolls, they are only here to raise hell on someone’s life. Growing up trolls where called bullies. Growing up I was bullied and I was tormented every day. It was from a group of girls in my class, so you know getting away from them was not an option. Going to school was hell. Having them …show more content…
We need to be aware of trolling and that it is something that we will be dealing with for a long time. It’s like a disease that can’t be cured. More and more people are becoming trolls and the comments that people say are getting worst and worst for example calling someone a monkey or telling them to go kill themselves and when they do you go and laugh and make it a joke. In Matthias Schwartz “The Trolls Among Us” talks about Trolls and how they a come into your life and just destroy it. In the beginning of the essay the author talked about a seventh grader names Mitchell Henderson who took a .22 caliber rifle and shot himself in the head. This was sad. People just don’t understand how much pain they are causing in someone’s life. This event also reminds me of a girl on Facebook who tried to committee suicide because everyone said that she was asking to get raped and that was sad. I personally didn’t know the girl but I followed her sister on Facebook. That is one of the reasons I don’t have a Facebook because the friends I had on there were honestly had no kind of …show more content…
When people know your exact moves or follow you on every social media cite it puts your life in danger. “Having Facebook friends and Instagram follower’s makes us feel all warm and special inside – the issue is, you never know if someone is following you a little too close for comfort (McGauley)”. This is a crazy thing to think about, knowing that one of your followers could just be following you because they are obsessed with you and they want to know what you’re doing on a daily biases so that they can Troll you. In the past it would be hard to troll a person. Now people can just click on the search icon an search your name and follow you. They can troll you on multiple accounts and you will never know. That is why sometimes just having your page on private and controlling who follows you is the best way. This is why my page is on private, because I have a psychopathic friend who is obsessed with me and there sole purpose to spam my page with multiple comments that would have you so mad that you don’t have no choose to reply. So that is why my page is private and blocked this friend so that I wouldn’t have to deal with their negativity anymore and I haven’t heard from this person in forever so its

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