After reading over Lindy West article, I’ve realized how cruel internet trolls are and how the hurtful comments can affect someone emotionally. It amazes me how far someone would go to hurt others feelings. I’ve heard and witness online trolling but never actually experienced it myself. The most common place I’ve personally seen trolling is on Instagram and Twitter. Trolls love to make fake accounts under innocuous username with barely any followers,posts, and no profile picture, commenting hateful things to the biggest celebrities. Some celebrities don’t entertain the trolls because they know it will gain them the attention that they are seeking. But every once in a while celebrities clap back and comment a classy remark against them. I don’t understand how dedicated trolls are making others lives miserable. Some will go as far as making multiple account if they were to be blocked or reported. It’s okay to have different emails that you use for different things. But it’s the way that you choose to use them. I have multiple emails but they all serve a different purpose. One is my personal email, the second is my school email, and recently I’ve made a third one that is more professional in which I’ll use for college or for emailing jobs. Going back to what I was saying just because you aren’t censored doesn’t mean that you can abuse the right of freedom of speech. That can only protect you from so much. There is a point where you’ve cross the line and now the law can step in a resolve to situation. What are your opinion on this topic! I would love to hear.
-Kayla Owens
I agree with everything you said here. It really is amazing that people will go to such great lengths just because they feel the need to hurt somebody. It's astonishing to me that there are people out there that dedicate their lives to attacking people online as if it were some kind of sport. It really makes me step back and think about where the world went wrong enough for us to get to this point.
ReplyDeleteI also agree with everything you've just said because people really try to do the most. I like your point about how not being censored means that you can't abuse your right to free speech. But it doesn't make sense to me that anyone would just make some random account with the agenda of trying to ruin someone's life.
ReplyDeleteHi Kayla, it sucks that people do this to other people that they don't even know but it comes to the point of what are we really going to do about it? There are so many people out there who have accounts for certain social media or emails. In my opinion we need to get our point across of attempting to stop these trolls by forming a giant group and share stories of who has hurt who and how it has affected them but that has been done many times over many websites and articles. I've never experienced or seen trolling on any accounts but it must really suck to have people you don't know go after you. -Juliet
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