Trolls

A troll can be defined as a person who makes an online post to purposely offend someone else. Trolls like to cause emotional harm to other people and they enjoy stirring up drama. They're basically cyber bullies. I have been trolled on before. My sophomore year a girl that used to be my friend went on Twitter and posted all these mean and hateful things about me. Since we used to be best friends before, I had told her very personal things and she publicized everything and even made up lies that completely humiliated me. Her comments and posts were so horrible, I never imagined someone to say such mean things about me. I was lucky enough that this occurred over summer so when I started school most people had forgotten about it but it was still a terrible experience and I would never wish that upon someone else. I think trolls are troubled individuals who are self conscious or get bullied themselves. I hope that we can find a way to stop trolling or a way to ignore and avoid those hateful posts that they write. 

They see me trollin...

What is a troll? A troll is defined as someone who makes a deliberately offensive or provocative online posting with the aim of upsetting someone or eliciting an angry response for them. Someone who trolls probably has nothing better to do with their time. It's actually heartbreaking for the people who are being trolled. I don't want to assume that all trolls are heartless but it's hard not to think that way since they do things to bring others down i.e. creating fake accounts. How does bringing someone down make someone else feel happy. I don't think trolling is taken very seriously since there are so many of them. Posting mean comments about people or making fun of someone doesn't even cross my mind, maybe it's because my parents taught me that being mean to someone doesn't get me anywhere in life. I think if we all cracked down on trolling, it would be taken more seriously.

Internet Trolls are Grumpy Trolls

Troll. The first thing that comes to mind when I hear that is the little chubby umpa lumpa looking toy with colorful hair that sticks up, well, either that or a grumpy troll hiding under a bridge. In this case we are talking about internet trolls. Internet trolls are basically cyber bullies. I find it odd that they have the time to hate on someone. I just don't get why you want to take time out of your day to find any flaw you can in someone and then shove them in that persons face. In my opinion that type of person has an obsession or is jealous of the person they are hating on. Internet trolls are kind of like grumpy trolls in the way that they are only there to terrorize people and are always hiding. Grumpy trolls wait under the bridge until you pass by and try to scare you away. Internet trolls hide behind their computer screen and try to scare you away. They are pretty similar in my opinion. I feel like there are a lot of trolls out there and that is because they think that whatever they say won't come back to them or they believe it's completely anonymous. However there is not always complete anonymity because with things like the Internet once it's out there it can be traced back to you. Although there are people who hide and make fake accounts there are some people who hate on others openly. For example celebrities receive tons of hate on social media and if you click on the haters profile you'll find that they don't even care that people know who they are and how much they are abusing someone online. It's crazy how people don't realize what they're saying or that their words are hurting someone. Overall trolls in my opinion should be put to silence somehow.  I don't know how but hopefully the war on trolls is somehow stopped.

Internet Trolls

When I think of Internet Trolls, I think of Bully's who have no time for anything productive in their life. I really can't stand when people bully other people, especially on the internet. If you have something mean to say, you should 1) Not say it at all or 2) Be bold and say it to someone's face, don't be a chicken and hide anonymously behind a computer screen. There really is no way to stop internet trolls completely, but there are ways to minimize it. It really isn't fair to a person who is being bullied, that they should have to delete their applications, because an internet troll is coming after them. We deserve freedom just as much as they do. We can stop internet trolls by not responding back to them. If we respond back to their negative comments, they will continue to keep being negative, and they will also feel like they need to keep commenting, so they can feel like they're on top. I know it may seem downing, but you should never let them get to you. You should know you are loved, and that them bringing you down is not worth it. Let the internet trolls be trolls, and don't respond to them. If you know someone who is an internet troll, maybe you should advise them to be a better person, and stop trying to bring other people down, just because they're down. The world needs more peace and love, and less bullies...

When I think of Internet trolls, I think of people who don't have anything better to do with their life but bring other people down. They stop at nothing just to get a rise out of their target. To me a troll is a cyber bully in the worst form. Trolls intentionally hurt others, they comment and send messages that are deliberately mean and hateful. It's not necessarily easy to ignore or avoid online trolls. They're literally everywhere and come back like a virus stronger and harder to ignore. So how do you respond to trolls? Well it all depends on the type of person you are. Someone timid tends to not respond to them going only to the extent of blocking the troll. On the other hand, an outspoken person can easily stand up to their aggressors. I think that trolls are a product of our internet society.
Jessica Nwabuzor

Why you always trollin ?

I think it's funny to me hearing the word "troll." When I hear the word troll for some reason I think of those hideous dolls in Toy Story that have brown skin and hair that just sticks up like static. However in this case we're talking about an internet troll. Internet trolls in my opinion are somewhat another name for internet bully. In this generation we use the slang "lurker," which is someone who has nothing better to do than just always stalk someone else's page trying to figure out what their up to. But in this case not many people in this society use trolling in a good way. They use trolling as a way to express their own opinions about other people but don't necessarily know the difference between an opinion and cyber bullying. When you are asked to give an open opinion about something you are required to give a honest opinion but in a respectful manner where no one will get hurt. Moreover that's not what people do today. Today people don't care about taking other human feelings into consideration when there being honest about something. Many cyber bullies use the internet to be able to use verbal abuse to hurt other people without having to come face to face with that person physically. Then there are some trolls that will go as low as possible on social media by attacking the victim by exposing their personal business to make the persons life miserable. For me personally my grandmother taught me that if someone strikes you on the left cheek, turn the right cheek as well. Now she's not saying that reoffering to being in a fight, what she meant was if someone hurts you do not seek revenge, simply forgive them and continue living. Majority of the time when people bully other students it's caused by lack of self confidence and jealousy. One of the role's I like to go by is "If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say it at all." Believe it or not it has made my life much easier, you should try it (:

Trolling Around

   Social Media has given opened us to so many wonderful opportunities.  It allows us to open up to put our opinions out there and have other individuals view it. Not everybody is going to like what we have to say and what we do online but since you can have an opinion well so can they.  There happen to be certain individuals that love to start up problems with what you have to say and although they are allowed to express what they want there should be a certain limit on how far things should be taken.  It's so easy to say things when you're only facing a screen but many don't realize how much it can affect someone's feelings. It can lead to them lowering their self esteem and making them feel less of a person when we are all the same.
   If someone agrees with what you're saying it can give you a really good feeling inside but it's definitely not the same impact when someone bashes what you have to say. Individuals tend to have such stronger feeling towards things they disagree on which is something a lot of us will never understand exactly why. I have seen many of these trolling incidents on most teens favorite app, Twitter. I have seen many people, especially girls, put each other down for no good apparent reason and I don't think I'll ever understand how they get joy out of that. By putting someone behind the screen takes away the moment of feeling guilty or bad for what they're doing because you don't get an immediate reaction off of the other person. If the troll were to ever be confronted there typical response would be "learn how to take a joke", "I was kidding", "well you deserve it" but there is a huge difference between joking around and trolling around.