Online Trolling

The topic that I am going to talk about is online trolling. In the article, Online trolling used to be funny, but now the term refers to something far more sinister it basically talks about how today’s cyberbullying was called trolling in the past. One insight that I gained is learning what trolling is. I never heard the word trolling used for activity that is done on the internet until I took this class. In the article it stated, “ Trolling often started with a message that was intentionally incorrect, but not overly controversial. By contrast, internet “flaming” described online behaviour with hostile intentions, characterised by profanity, obscenity, and insults that inflict harm to a person or an organisation”. I learned that there were two types of trolling, one that was innocent and one that was intentional before I finished reading the article. Cyberbullying popped into my head and I realized that in the past cyber bullying was occurring but it wasn’t taken as seriously as it is today. In the article it also talks about how they will replace the name trolling with cyber abuse. I have learned that times change and even how things are viewed on the internet change over time. Back then smart comments were not taken as seriously as they are now and if you’re still “trolling” today it is taken way too seriously and not seen as funny like it was in the past.

I personally never experienced anything that I would call online harassment or cyber abuse until I read articles. There were times in 2012 that people that I thought were my friends would post a picture from google on the internet and say that it is me which I now know that it is harassment. There were also times when my friends would comment on smart stuff under certain posts on facebook that was trolling but when we were young we didn’t think of it in that way. My recommendations on how to avoid cyber abuse is to stay off the internet until you are in your teen years. Some people are mean and some people don’t intend to be mean but just try and joke on the internet but it really is harassment and trolling.I believe if it happens to you go to the person who it came from immediately and tell them how it is wrong and if nothing changes you may have to go to a higher power

My favorite social media platform is instagram and they are very effective with addressing trolling or what is called today cyber abuse. Instagram is a media site where you post videos and pictures on your feed or on your story. Everywhere you search on instagram have a button where you can report a post or story if it is inappropriate if it makes you feel uncomfortable ect. Instagram is very good with addressing something that shouldn’t be on their social media network. I remember one time it was this picture posted of me on the university of minnesota track and field page that I didn’t like and I reported it and within the hour they had gotten back to me about my issue and what they would do to solve it.

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