#wasteoflife

[moddestmouse]

Ok well I've calmed down but today sucked horribly. And I did Nothing

[skull-n-cross-bones]

People fucking suck.

[astiffblog-blog]

Trolling and Social Media Conflict

The world of trolling and social media conflict, examining norms, potential abuses and new forms of conflict can all cause potential harm for on individuals.

Bullying has been in society for hundreds of years, however, technological bullying, known as cyberbullying has endorsed the expansion of the problem. Online publication of personal information put teens in a position of defenselessness where they were victims of online bullying or contributing in online bullying (Nilan, 2015).BullyingStatistics.com(2017) released some stats on cyberbullying. Over half of adolescents and teens have been bullied online and the same number involved in cyber bullying. The results are mental effects. Suicidal thoughts and violent actions (Bullying Statistics, 2017).

http://upworthy.tumblr.com/post/120210821694/remember-the-man-who-was-bullied-for-dancing-a-few

A social media troll, by definition, is someone who creates conflict on sites like Twitter, Facebook and Reddit by posting messages that are particularly controversial or inflammatory with the sole intent of provoking an emotional (read: angry) response from other users (The Huffington Post, 2017)

Digital citizenship is usually concerned with ethical behavior in online environments and takes aim at problematic or aberrant forms of participation. Troll histories and sites, trolling events and behaviors have caught the attention of mainstream media and have begun to feature in ethnographic scholarship. Burgess and Green state that the use of YouTube by young people is often associated with the relative lack of constraints placed on posting videos or commenting (McCosker , 2014). The Internet’s folk wisdom for trolls says: ‘Do not feed them!’ This remedy rests on a belief that response and interaction are the barest matters of subsistence in an attention economy. To call out a troll is thus to recognise who ought or ought not to speak or be listened to. The way that we talk about trolls and trolling as a spectacle of post-Internet culture places us in a wider, longer fight over the ethos, the history, and the politics of the digital (Bergstrom K,2011).

In 2013, Independent Senator Nick Xenophon called for a social media ombudsman. It was argued that schools have programs intact and that Facebook is responsive in answering information to Police.The article can be read here http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/digital-life-news/cyber-bullying-latest-election-battleground-20130905-2t6z3.html

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The ombudsman site NSW has a fact sheet that provides guidance on monitoring, assessing and responding to the anti-social use of social media and the internet. Unfortunately, this fact sheet has not stopped the amount of cyberbullying occurring and the suicides and cases we do not even hear of from happening. In my opinion, stricter rules and a social media ombudsman would be a deterrent to offenders and may save some lives. The office of the Children’s safety commissioner is the government’s safety website for children. Numerous focus is given to trolling within the school environment. It seems to be forgotten how many celebrities and adults are affected by this too. The question we need to ask ourselves and think about is whether the benefits of social media outweigh the hurt and problems caused by trolling. In my opinion and from stories that I have read, the approach to governing online behavior and social media practice is a work in process.

References:

Bergstrom, K 2011, ‘“Don’t Feed the Troll”: Shutting down the debate about community expectations on Reddit.com’, First Monday vol. 16, no. 8, viewed 5 January 2017  <http://www.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/3498/3029>.

Bullying Statistics. (2017). Bullying Statistics - Bullying Statistics. [online] Available at: http://www.bullyingstatistics.org/content/bullying-statistics.html [Accessed 6 Jan. 2017].

eSafety 2015, viewed 6 January 2016, <https://www.esafety.gov.au/>.

 McCosker, A 2014, YouTrolling as provocation: Tube’s agonistics publics, Convergence, vol. 20, no. 2, pp. 201-217.

 Nilan, P 2015, ‘Youth, Social Media and Cyberbullying among Australia youth, SAGE Journals, vol 1, issue no.2, pp1-6.

 The Huffington Post. (2017). Answering a Social Troll - What You Need to Know. [online] Available at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andre-bourque/answering-a-social-troll_b_6625654.html [Accessed 6 Jan. 2017].

[hocktan-108]

No matter how fast

your footsteps are moving,

you will never move forward

by stepping in the same spot.

👁😮👁

不 管 步 伐 多 快,

原 地 踏 步

不 會 向 前。

[hocktan-108]

👉大自然亙久展示，大道至簡：小溪匯流，孕育出大河。

👉As Mother Nature has always revealed, the universal truth is utterly simple: the convergence of tiny streams gives birth to great rivers.

[katiekutthroat]

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[aljusandres]

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[siddhantscribbles05-blog]

Cha(lle)nging times

There are times when you feel too much bogged down by the undue pressure living in a society brings along. There are so many rules one has to abide by in order to feel inclusive in a group of grownups. Being relevant has also a changed meaning altogether. There are n number of social media platforms that demand your effort in order to rise up the ladder of relevance. Then comes the career you’ve chosen and how well you are doing for yourself in terms of money, which also bring along peer pressure…

Bedrooms in your home should always be at least one more than those required,

car needs to be luxurious enough to carry a pet dog/cat (left to your discretion, although cats are more open minded in terms of expressing their freedom of speech),

hours your maid works for,

school your kid goes to (if there is one, more than one bring along judgements of another level),

vacations you take and destinations you choose (yes, India is so tacky to go holidaying),

the list goes on; I would rather jump to my next point!

It has become so hard to survive that people can judge you on the basis of language of the book you read or the movie you watch. Nothing is left personal, so much is the society externally driven. How does one keep one’s individuality intact and remain true to one’s choices without being judged at every step?

Does one start on a journey alone, not paying any heed to what is talked around? This makes one a rebel who is ultimately discarded by the society as a canker gone astray. The journey gets harder as time passes and after a while you start feeling heavy in your chest, struggling to keep up the righteousness while the juices last. And they run dry, they do as your breaths get heavier. With each passing day you curse the decision to branch away and walk alone on your own path. The strength to take the decision, as it turns out to be, is not enough to take you through, it eventually fizzes out. You gradually become a memory, a wasted life that could have been so much more if it fitted in the premise devised by the rules of the society.

They all shall talk once you don’t matter anymore!

But, he was right?

Just that no one understood…. What a waste of a life!!!