Cyber Bullies

I found a reading to continue the idea of cyber bullying. It was interesting to see there views on how to solve the problem. The most common from both what we watched in class and what I read was for teens to block those people offending them. This is a great idea but how simple is it to create another profile or go onto a friends screen name and use it to carry out the dirty work.


The next piece of advice offered to teens suffering from the bullying is to simply limit their friend list to those whom that are truly close friends. This comes as a shock to me being that friends list should not be about how many friends they can claim to have when in fact they only talk with a few.


The following is a major hindrance to the idea of privacy. Teens sharing their passwords that are meant to only allow them to access their profile. How can it be seen as ok to share things of that nature? I find it disturbing that so little of the society is relying on building relationships in person.


I completely agree that having these means of CMC are easier to maintain long distance relationships or even reconnecting with friends long forgotten. But wouldn’t it look just as nice to keep those relationships, because if it was someone that truly meant something to me I could manage to find another way to stay in contact with them. Look people were able to do it across a country even prior to telegraphs, so why can teens not do the same and talk on the phone or just pass notes in school. This would eliminate the online bullying altogether, and when in person it could easily be deterred by a teacher, who is there to intervene.