Doug Johnson How To Stop The Bullies Analysis

Safer Social Networks
Emily Bazelon’s “How to Stop the Bullies” first appeared in The Atlantic in March 2013. In this essay Bazelon, shows the real life of the ‘Gossip Girls’ with some conflict on the social network, Facebook. In addition, Doug Johnson’s “Staying Safe on the Read-Write Web” first appeared in the Library Media Connection in March 2008. In this essay, Johnson aims to convince his reader to be safe on the social networks especially teenagers. The articles “How to Stop the Bullies” by Emily Bazelon and “Staying Safe on the Read-Write Web” by Doug Johnson argue using classical appeals that social networks should be safe from cyberbullying and how to prevent and stop it; however, Doug Johnson offers a more effective argument.
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She states “The angst and ire of teenagers is finding new, sometimes dangerous expression online … parents and school feel powerless to stop” but still, there is the way to stop the bullies from the social network, Facebook (Bazelon 82). But unfortunately, she uses one logical piece of information without further explanation. Actually, in the real life, “social network … requires its users to sign up with their real names”; but in this problem about the ‘Drama Queen’ who do not reveal real identity (Bazelon 82). Bazelon argues this problem is not in the appropriate way and there should be a solution. On the other hand, in Johnson’s article he states “Social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook are online spaces where users can easily post information” and “Fifty-five percent of all online American youths ages 12-17 use online social networking” (48). His arguments showed that young people are more likely to use the social networks, and also use to video tagging and share comments, the users are need to be careful because “[cyberbullying defines] as ‘sending or posting harmful or cruel text…’” (Johnson