According to nobully.com’s online article “The Top Six Unforgettable CyberBullying Cases Ever’’, The origins of bullying began when Amanda Todd used video chat to interact with people. Then one day, a stranger harassed her to show him her breasts. As a result, the bully blackmail her and post it publicly for the world to see on Facebook. Amanda Todd was shamed by the public and the bully kept striking her according her mother Carol Todd. On September 7,2012 , Amanda Todd posted her well known video “My story: “Struggling, bullying, suicide, self harm” which included her telling her bullying story through flash cards. The video had reached 17 million views and on October 10, 2012 Amanda Tood committed suicide in her house by hanging herself. As a result of her story, school districts have been improving their code of conducts in order to prevent horrific stories like Amanda…
After years of dealing with depression and bullying, a fifteen-year-old girl by the name of Amanda Todd committed suicide by hanging herself just five weeks after posting a video telling her story on YouTube. The video showed Amanda displaying her story about her struggles with bullying, and how it began to progress throughout the years. She wrote about her dealing with stalking, harassment from her peers, and being cyberbullied and publicly humiliated in front of her peers. Bullying is a widespread concern, with studies conducted in a national…
In “Is Facebook Making You Mean?” an article by Lauren Tarshis, the author questions whether the negative characteristics of Facebook on children actually outweighs the positive aspects of social media. The author writes using different styles to both emphasize the important information and also to hold the interest of the intended audience. She begins by telling the story of a young girl named Anna who didn’t think through the words that she commented on another girl’s Facebook post and though not intentionally malicious, deeply hurt the receiver of those words. Tarshis immediately recognizes the opposition as she goes on to discuss the impact of those words not only in Anna’s case but also in the hundreds of similar scenarios that happen nearly every day. She then continues with the topic as she discusses both the positive and negative impact that Facebook has on the younger generation. Finally, Tarshis presents her own personal argument showing that social media can actually be extremely beneficial, especially to those who might have trouble being social in the physical world. She also recognizes the need for and…
"Bullied victims are 7 to 9 percent more likely to consider suicide according to a study by Yale University. Studies in Britain have found half of the suicides among youth related to bullying." I find it crazy that kids as young as eight years old are taking their lives because kids are mean to them for no reason. Kids at the age of eight to eleven should not even know what suicide is. Yet there are kids taking their lives by hanging themselves ad shooting themselves just so they don't have to go to school. This is Amanda's story of her cyber bullying and suicide. "On January 12, 2012 Amanda Diane Cummings, a 15 year old Staten Island youth, jumped in front of a bus. She carried a note on her that stated that classmates were constantly teasing…
Social networking has played a prominent role in allowing users to connect with each other around the world over the past decades. Social network sites are used in order to improve intimate communication and build better relationships with family, old and new friends. Facebook in particular is one of the most popular social networking sites. It provides a wide range of connection methods for users to interact with those people that they care about and to update status or photos on the website. The website was established by Mark Zuckerberg and his college friends in February 2004. It is owned and operated by Facebook Inc. The company has continued to develop and increase potentiality over the last eight years (PrivCo, 2011). As of March, 2012, there were more than 900 million Facebook users, more than 125 billion friend connections and there were an average of 300 million photos uploaded each day on the website (Facebook’s S-1 Filing, 2012). In this sense, Facebook has become the largest social networking sites in the world. Additionally, when the company started trading stock to public on 18 May, 2012, it was also recorded as the third largest IPO in the history of the United States (Hammond, 2012). However, the stock price has been significantly falling since selling the stock to public. Although social networking is a growing market and the company plans to continue developing its productions and services, investors remain worried about the ability of the company and they have doubted that the stock will not be able to turn profit margins in both short-term and long-term period. Therefore, the stock of Facebook should not be invested in because it is overvalued and overpriced and the company might struggle with commercial revenue and be restricted in many areas. This paper will describe the stock market and Facebook’s situation before and after trading to the public and will also discuss the question of investment in the stock of the company. It will then…
Logline: Bullying has become an epidemic in the USA and today, more than ever, we are hearing stories in the news about how kids are committing suicide at a younger age due to bullying.…
The results indicated that traits of extraversion, neuroticism and openness to experience had expected trends, however, the researchers did not find any significant connection between Facebook behaviour and the personality factors of agreeableness and openness. In addition, personality…
Amanda Todd, a Vancouver-area teenager who posted a story to YouTube last month about being cyber-bullied, was found dead Wednesday night in Coquitlam, Canada. Authorities believe she committed suicide (Grenoble, Ryan). This 14 year old girl committed suicide on October, 11, 2012 due to cyber bullying. Previous to her death, Todd posted a video on YouTube telling her story with a series of flash cards.…
In todays society it seems as if everybody is connected to social media somehow, especially us college students and young adults. It’s a way for us to connect with friends far away or even nearby. The thing is, social media is destroying young adults mentally and physically because it’s disconnecting them from the physical world. Texting, emailing, tweeting, and facebooking have become the preferred forms of communication for many young adults in the past 10 years and shows no signs of slowing down. We’re now in a society where interacting online has become the social norm. You’re probably more likely to speak to friends and family through electronic devices…
Unfortunately, in this day of age, we as a society have become far too dependent on technology and social media. Just taking a moment to look around yourself you can’t help but see so many people either swiping away on their phones or mindlessly lending over towards their computers. However, you can’t help but ask what are they doing? More than likely everyone was on one of the many social media platforms. In the article “Is Facebook Making Us Lonely?” the author argues that Facebook, one of the most popular forms of social media ever, is the reason why much of society is the way it is. For example, there used to be a point in time, where friends and families remembered each other’s birthdays and would mail you a birthday card, offer to take…
Facebook is an online social networking site founded in 2004 (Facebook.com, n.d.). The purpose of this website is to connect family and friends and to share content such as pictures, status updates, and event invites between the user’s contacts. The site also has numerous games that many users participate in for entertainment. The website states the mission of Facebook is to “give people the power to share and make the world more open and connected,” (Facebook.com, n.d.). Every day millions of people log on to connect with friends and family, sharing photos, links, and videos.…
Alyson Waite, a junior public relations major, wrote an article titled, “Beware of Facebook Danger,” on May 10, 2006. In this article, Waite ultimately tries to persuade her readers to avoid Facebook. She describes how predators can use Facebook as an opportunity to find unsuspecting victims. She also tells of the risk that a student might face from questionable photos posted of them. She explains how students can portray themselves as potential victims by exposing their insecurity. Finally, she talks about how employers can use Facebook to check the credibility of potential employees. Waite's claim about Facebook being a danger to students and potential employees are flawed because she uses faulty generalization to point out only the dangers of using Facebook and she has no evidence to support the claims that she makes about Facebook being dangerous to users.…
Facebook as we all know is a social networking website launched in February 2004. Its aim was that users can add people as friends, send them messages and update their personal profiles to notify friends about themselves…
NARCISSISTIC)—AND THAT THIS LONELINESS IS MAKING US MENTALLY AND PHYSICALLY ILL. A REPORT ON WHAT…
Small and Local businesses are discovering the advantages of having a Facebook fan page and are beginning to learn the secrets to attracting new customers and website visitors with simple tricks that are classified as affordable and easy. With some effort, your great plan or product can be become a fan favorite on Facebook!…