The Ups and Downs of Social Media
The Ups and Downs of Social Media Naomi Ohlsen INF 103 Week 5 Final paper Christine Stagnetto-Zweig 20 May 2013
Social Media has been growing over last the decade and more and types of communication through social media have been developed. Chat rooms and instant messaging through AOL was a new form of communication when I was graduating high school. Today there are multiple forms of social media. You can tweet, post, or pin just about anything. You can reconnect with old friends, or make new friends. Small businesses are becoming much more mainstream, by taking advantage of online markets with the help of social media. If you can be found on Google you can be limitless. Social media is something I never heard of until well after high school. I graduated in 2002 and bullying at my high school was done face to face instead of on the internet. Bullying in the information age has been defined as Cyber Bullying. Cyber bullying can be defined as an aggressive, intentional act carried out by a group or individual, using electronic forms of contact, repeatedly and over time against a victim who can not easily defend themselves. (Research Briefs www.dfes.gov.uk/research ).
There are 7 types of cyber bullying: text message, picture/video (via mobile phone cameras), phone call (via mobile phones), Email, chat-room, instant message, and through websites. (Research Briefs www.dfes.gov.uk/research ).
Cyber Bullying through pictures or video were perceived to have more of an impact on victims than traditional forms of bullying (Research Briefs www.dfes.gov.uk/research ). Bully victims are 2 to 9 times more likely to commit suicide than non-victims, according to studies done by Yale University. The impact on any form of Bullying is substantial, but Cyber Bullying I believe to be even more substantial because of the inability
Social Media has been growing over last the decade and more and types of communication through social media have been developed. Chat rooms and instant messaging through AOL was a new form of communication when I was graduating high school. Today there are multiple forms of social media. You can tweet, post, or pin just about anything. You can reconnect with old friends, or make new friends. Small businesses are becoming much more mainstream, by taking advantage of online markets with the help of social media. If you can be found on Google you can be limitless. Social media is something I never heard of until well after high school. I graduated in 2002 and bullying at my high school was done face to face instead of on the internet. Bullying in the information age has been defined as Cyber Bullying. Cyber bullying can be defined as an aggressive, intentional act carried out by a group or individual, using electronic forms of contact, repeatedly and over time against a victim who can not easily defend themselves. (Research Briefs www.dfes.gov.uk/research ).
There are 7 types of cyber bullying: text message, picture/video (via mobile phone cameras), phone call (via mobile phones), Email, chat-room, instant message, and through websites. (Research Briefs www.dfes.gov.uk/research ).
Cyber Bullying through pictures or video were perceived to have more of an impact on victims than traditional forms of bullying (Research Briefs www.dfes.gov.uk/research ). Bully victims are 2 to 9 times more likely to commit suicide than non-victims, according to studies done by Yale University. The impact on any form of Bullying is substantial, but Cyber Bullying I believe to be even more substantial because of the inability