Friday, December 11, 2015

(2 Week Late Post) Nobody is Safe from Trolling

When you think of the certain type of person who is to be trolled on the Internet, you would assume that this person was probably part of some minority group, maybe even part of vulnerable or minority political groups, for instance feminists or third world freedom fighters. However, you'd be surprised that many people are attacked for more than just their beliefs, I can account from personal experience that, in fact, others have been solely targeted for their innate characteristics, excluding ethnicity, such as beauty or body positivity. Those who are also promiscuous by nature also seem to have the trolling beat stick thrown at them due to them being beyond the norm that we were either taught to be as children or the societal norm that experience from day-to-day living. People's personal choices are always being attacked on the web, and believe me, the person who was trolled can be anyone, they do not have to be an "Internet famous celebrity", they can be someone as unknown and uncharted as you or me, regular students who attend a regular high school in a decent neighborhood, and you can still be harassed by these heathens for no reason but to spite you or to get a rise out of you. I may have you asking yourselves is there a way for us to escaping this barrage of hate on social media websites, and yes there definitely is a solution to that problem. If we were to have people who monitor what messages can go through to another person's page, we could definitely lower the chance of receiving hateful or sickening messages online by a substantial factor. Companies would have to step up their game and start hiring more employees for this new job so that they can have a much more thorough search through what messages are to be deemed as trolling.

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