The internet is one of the greatest inventions known to man. It is used for many things: research for your homework, dating, socializing with friends, and even making new friend. As helpful as it may be it can also hurt you in many ways. The internet is used to publicly say what you are thinking, but some things that people post are things they are not willing to say in person.
When you post a new picture or comment on the internet do you really think about who is going to see it. People don’t realize when they post something up that they are letting anyone see it including strangers. One issue on the internet is cyber bullying. People get bullied online every day, sometimes this leads to suicides. People also create ‘avatars’ online and some are questionable as to why the avatar looks so different from the creator? Also are avatars bad for peoples self esteem? Etc.
People use the internet to get revenge on people for example I read an article were a 35 year old woman named Dawn Putnam’s former boyfriend posted up nude pictures of her online. He tried to blackmail her asking for $5,000 in order for him to take the pictures down. Instead of paying him she called the cops and told them what was happening. Alan Douglas Westmoreland the boyfriend was put in Gaston County Jail on a $10,000 bond on an extortion charge. She denied posing for the picture and says he must have taken it when she fell asleep sunbathing naked. This all happened through the social networking sit named Tagged.com. One message that was sent to her read “Message: you want your video and pix???? cost you 5000$ or everyone will get it on top of everyone on your frinds (sic) list on here and my space! IM NOT JOKING!!!!”. Another message to her threaten to send it to Putnam’s teenage daughter. There are many cases similar to this one were people use the internet for the wrong reasons. They use the interrnet to try to hurt people.
People online get bullied everyday its called cyber bullying. There was a case where a girl was hurt by another girl and the mother of the girl that was hurt decided to get revenge. So she created a fake profile saying she was a teen boy and that he liked the girl. She got the teen girl to start talking to her and soon trusting her. Once she earned her trust she started to insult her and making her feel bad about herself. The teen was so hurt by what she was being told that she committed suicide. The argument was that she didn’t mean for the girl to commit suicide, she knew what her actions were and didn’t know that the girl would committe suicide, but she knew her actions were meant with bad intentions. I believe it should be trialed as murder since her intentions were to hurt the girl maybe not to that extreme but she knew exactly what she was doing. She is a grown woman and should be mature enough to solve the problem more wisely. She is suppose to be the grown up in this situation and instead of setting a good example for her daughter of how to deal with a problem she set a bad example.
Cyber bullying is a huge issue in the internet. People bullying others because they can’t physically do anything back, they even have the safety of keeping there identity a secret if they wanted to. People bully teens for being gay or acting feminine. I believe religion plays a big part to do with gay teens being bullied for being gay. Teens committe suicide because of comments made about there sexuality or sexual preference. Religion teaches you to love your neighbor. Love there similarities and their differences but they also say its wrong to be gay because it is wrong in the eyes of god/lord or that it is a life style they choose. They believe its wrong and there for no one should be gay. People grow up hearing this and being taught this that they wont accept when some one around them is gay and they start bullying those people who are gay. Some bully people online because it is easier and it is more viral everyone can see it. It causes a lot of gay teens to get emotionally hurt. They feel everyone will be just as cruel and the world will never accept them for who they really are, and it would be to hard to live like that and choose to end their lives. I believe that religious people should respect people’s life styles and choices just like people respect religion it should go both ways. Respect everyone no matter what there believes are. I believe is if they choose to live like that and are not hurting anybody then they should be left alone. People should be mature enough to respect their choice. Some religious people get mad because its wrong to like the same sex because they were told by some book ‘The Bible’ that it is a sin, that it is immoral. That love is only supposed to be between a man and a woman.
People create avatars for many reasons. Avatars are creator’s virtual self. People create avatars for games and some social sites were they create there virtual self’s. I think that it’s bad for some people. Some people might take it to serious when they play using there avatar. Some lose track of the real world. Some like there virtual self’s more because you can be anyone when you create an avatar. You can make it look yourself or you can make it look like a completely different person with huge muscles with abilities you wish you had. People are more accepted in the gaming world because you can choose what you look like and what you can do. They create alter egos you ask yourself if that person wish they looked like that or just made a character with cool characteristics.
When you post a new picture or comment on the internet do you really think about who is going to see it. People don’t realize when they post something up that they are letting anyone see it including strangers. One issue on the internet is cyber bullying. People get bullied online every day, sometimes this leads to suicides. People also create ‘avatars’ online and some are questionable as to why the avatar looks so different from the creator? Also are avatars bad for peoples self esteem? Etc.
People use the internet to get revenge on people for example I read an article were a 35 year old woman named Dawn Putnam’s former boyfriend posted up nude pictures of her online. He tried to blackmail her asking for $5,000 in order for him to take the pictures down. Instead of paying him she called the cops and told them what was happening. Alan Douglas Westmoreland the boyfriend was put in Gaston County Jail on a $10,000 bond on an extortion charge. She denied posing for the picture and says he must have taken it when she fell asleep sunbathing naked. This all happened through the social networking sit named Tagged.com. One message that was sent to her read “Message: you want your video and pix???? cost you 5000$ or everyone will get it on top of everyone on your frinds (sic) list on here and my space! IM NOT JOKING!!!!”. Another message to her threaten to send it to Putnam’s teenage daughter. There are many cases similar to this one were people use the internet for the wrong reasons. They use the interrnet to try to hurt people.
People online get bullied everyday its called cyber bullying. There was a case where a girl was hurt by another girl and the mother of the girl that was hurt decided to get revenge. So she created a fake profile saying she was a teen boy and that he liked the girl. She got the teen girl to start talking to her and soon trusting her. Once she earned her trust she started to insult her and making her feel bad about herself. The teen was so hurt by what she was being told that she committed suicide. The argument was that she didn’t mean for the girl to commit suicide, she knew what her actions were and didn’t know that the girl would committe suicide, but she knew her actions were meant with bad intentions. I believe it should be trialed as murder since her intentions were to hurt the girl maybe not to that extreme but she knew exactly what she was doing. She is a grown woman and should be mature enough to solve the problem more wisely. She is suppose to be the grown up in this situation and instead of setting a good example for her daughter of how to deal with a problem she set a bad example.
Cyber bullying is a huge issue in the internet. People bullying others because they can’t physically do anything back, they even have the safety of keeping there identity a secret if they wanted to. People bully teens for being gay or acting feminine. I believe religion plays a big part to do with gay teens being bullied for being gay. Teens committe suicide because of comments made about there sexuality or sexual preference. Religion teaches you to love your neighbor. Love there similarities and their differences but they also say its wrong to be gay because it is wrong in the eyes of god/lord or that it is a life style they choose. They believe its wrong and there for no one should be gay. People grow up hearing this and being taught this that they wont accept when some one around them is gay and they start bullying those people who are gay. Some bully people online because it is easier and it is more viral everyone can see it. It causes a lot of gay teens to get emotionally hurt. They feel everyone will be just as cruel and the world will never accept them for who they really are, and it would be to hard to live like that and choose to end their lives. I believe that religious people should respect people’s life styles and choices just like people respect religion it should go both ways. Respect everyone no matter what there believes are. I believe is if they choose to live like that and are not hurting anybody then they should be left alone. People should be mature enough to respect their choice. Some religious people get mad because its wrong to like the same sex because they were told by some book ‘The Bible’ that it is a sin, that it is immoral. That love is only supposed to be between a man and a woman.
People create avatars for many reasons. Avatars are creator’s virtual self. People create avatars for games and some social sites were they create there virtual self’s. I think that it’s bad for some people. Some people might take it to serious when they play using there avatar. Some lose track of the real world. Some like there virtual self’s more because you can be anyone when you create an avatar. You can make it look yourself or you can make it look like a completely different person with huge muscles with abilities you wish you had. People are more accepted in the gaming world because you can choose what you look like and what you can do. They create alter egos you ask yourself if that person wish they looked like that or just made a character with cool characteristics.
The internet can be very helpful when you use it right. “The Machine That Changed the World: The World at Your Fingertips” I saw this quote online and I always hear it when a teacher assigns a new assignment in class. When I was younger I never really understood what they meant until now I understand. The internet is world wide you can be in one place and simply type in a few words and know what is happening on the other side of the globe. You type in a question and can find the answer online. The internet has everything you can research, listen to music watch videos, find pictures, read books, and socialize with people. Now when most teens have a question they simply go on the internet to fin the answer. The internet has made thing so much easier. Most teens rather go on the internet for social sites: face book, myspace, and twitter than use the internet for anything else. This causes a problem because they tend to spend way to much time on it. They can’t wait to log on and talk to their friends or post what they did during the day. I personally think those sites are a waist of time because teens mainly talk to their friends from school so I think its dumb cause they can just talk to them at school. Also because people go online just to argue and talk bad about band other people their teacher or places. I find that to be a waits of time were they can be doing something productive. I believe even meeting people online is a waist of time because they simply can lie about themselves. I had a friend that I knew really well I had the same classes with him since we were little so one day I decided to look him up online, when I couldn’t find him I asked him for his email when I got to his page I couldn’t believe that was him. He sounded so different online than in person. In person he was the type of person that didn’t care about anything and never did what he was told to do. Online he was poetic and talked about politics on a very high level. Reading some stuff he wrote and couldn’t believe it was the same guy I knew from school. As I continued to read I thought to myself how many people must have completely different lives online I knew this guy didn’t just make everything up he knew what he was talking about, but what can you really believe its not like you can prove them wrong. It just gets you thinking that anybody can become someone else online they can tell you exactly what you want to hear because you wont know if its true or not.
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