A new study confirms what many Internet users know all too well: Harassment is a common part of online life.
The first-of-its-kind REPORT by the Pew Research Center found that nearly three-quarters of American adults who use the Internet have witnessed online harassment. Forty percent have experienced it themselves.
The types of harassment Pew asked about range from name-calling to physical threats, sexual harassment and stalking. Half of those who were harassed said they didn’t know the person who had most recently attacked them.Young adults — people 18 to 29 — were the most likely age group to see and undergo online harassment. Women ages 18 to 24 were disproportionately the victims of stalking and sexual harassment, according to the survey. And people who have more information available about themselves online, WORK in the tech industry or promote themselves on the Internet, were also more likely to be harassed.
Starting this summer, people involved in an online campaign termed “Gamergate” have been harassing several prominent women in the video game industry and their supporters for criticizing the lack of diversity in games and how women are portrayed. One of the targets is Brianna Wu, a software engineer and founder of game developer Giant Spacekat. Wu, who is in her mid-30s, said she has frequently been harassed online, but it’s gotten worse this year.Earlier this month, people threatened her and her husband with rape, death and castration on Twitter and posted her address online, she said, and they have been trying to impersonate her on the Internet to smear her reputation. She got so frightened that she left her home in Boston.
Wu went to the police, but most people harassed online don’t. According to Pew, just 5 percent of those who were harassed REPORTED the incident to law enforcement, while nearly half confronted the person online. Forty-four percent said they unfriended or blocked the person.
But victims of harassment often don’t know where it’s coming from. Thirty-eight percent of people who were harassed online said a stranger was behind the threats, and another 26 percent didn’t know who the person was.Among other key findings from Pew:
— Two-thirds of those who were harassed said the most recent incident took place on a social NETWORKING site or app, while 22 percent saw it happen in the comments section of a website. Sixteen percent, meanwhile, said it happened in online gaming.
— Men were more likely to be called offensive names than women. Of all Internet users (89 percent of the U.S. population), 32 percent of men and 22 percent of women were called names. Men were also more likely to be physically threatened.— Not everyone said they were hurt by online harassment. While 14 percent of people found their most recent incident “extremely upsetting,” 22 percent said it was “not at all upsetting.” The rest of the people surveyed had reactions in between.
The telephone and online survey was conducted between May 30 and June 30 among 3,217 respondents. It has a margin of error of plus or minus 2.2 percentage points.Taken from The Japan Times.
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Digitalization is now booming in different parts of the world where the world stated to convert to the digital world. This also happens with online harassment where it started to shift from physical harassment to online harassment especially sexual harassment. Not only sexual harassment happen in online , bullying also happen in the digital world. This condition is called cyberbullying where any form of bullying or harassment happen using electronic mean. It usually happens in the stage of teenagers and mostly using social media sites.
ReplyDeleteThe problem of todays cyberbullying is not only the perpetrator fault of doing harassment nor bullying, it is that the victim nowadays are either too scared to tell about the problem to the law enforcement or they just seem that its not a very big deal. This habit must not continue in the upcoming days when cyberbullying happens. The more it happens the bigger the chance bullying or harassment happen in online.
ReplyDeleteI have to say that I agree with the statement that harassment is, in fact, a common part of online life. I, myself never really experienced online harassment but I often see hurtful comments on other people posts especially celebrities or internet influencer. The most common things that I see is that netizens frequently comment about how they look whether they look too thin or too fat or they look different, all that kind of kinds of stuff. People may not realize it but those comments can actually affect someone’s life. There are often cases about people suffering from eating disorder or in some extreme cases even suicide. As millennials where social media is a big part of our daily life we have to really filter what goes in and out of social media accounts. We have to really see through who we let in on our life. We must also be cautious about the things that we post on our accounts and make sure that our post won’t harm anyone.
Nowadays, online harassment is unfortunately very common. There are often cases of teenagers that commit suicide because they were cyberbullied, and it is frequent to see very hurtful comments under online posts. I think that people are not aware that when they are talking on social networks, the things they say can affect the people as much as it would in real life. Cyber harassment also affects a lot of celebrities and influencers. I sometimes read the comments below the Instagram posts of some French influencers and some of them really shock me. I think that some people consider that, as influencers are exposing their life to the public, they can judge them and criticize everything they do and are often really mean to them. I believe that people should be able to give their opinion about everything they see online, but they should also be aware that what they are saying can really hurt others and that sometimes it can be better to say nothing.
ReplyDeleteThere is this infamous culture in the Internet, known as doxing or doxxing. It can be defined as the practice of researching and broadcasting private or identifiable information about an individual, whether it is just for fun, or for much more malicious intentions. I have to admit that I have doxed some cyber people in the past, just for the sake of ‘exposing‘ them to the mutual users in the platform that I was in, Football Twitter. I envied their success for having much more followers that I had at that time, so I decided to reveal the identities of some accounts. Most people that I exposed were not true to who they said they were. As for example, one person with the online name Sam, initially claimed to be from Manchester, is actually a person named Sameer from Pakistan. I started to regret my habit as Twitter banned my username for violating their laws. Never dox your online friends! Sooner or later, the authorities will get to you.
ReplyDeleteThis is crazy Raul, I need to report this to the police!
DeleteOnline harassment is far from being something that is uncommon on the internet. Online harassment tends to happen on a daily basis. As the technology and the internet are advancing more and more each day, the chances of online harassment are also increasing more and more each day. I have witnessed a lot of horrible harassment online towards celebrity and even sometimes my friends. I also read online that impersonation is one of the example of online harassment. I am sad to say that I have experienced online harassment. Someone made a fake LINE account of me and texted one of my friends and pretended to be me. My friend then proceeded to tell me that someone was pretending to be me on LINE so then I ended up confronting them. We ended up arguing because I was really heated by the moment. The person who pretended to be me continued to play the victim as if I was the one in the wrong in this situation when I was actually the victim. I have to say, being harassed online is not an experience you will get over quickly. It took me a couple days to get over it since the words that they told me was really hurtful and what they did to me was truly awful. So please, don’t ever harass anyone online or offline.
ReplyDeleteI found quite a lot of online harassment going on today. Starting from social medias to online games. So far, I have not experienced harassments by online or real life but I will tell what some friends of mine experienced. So few years ago, when I was at high school, a friend which is a girl got harassed by receiving chats from a random guy about rape and unpleasing words such as ‘bitch’ & ‘slut’. She cried and traumatized after the following online harassment. Other than that, there was also a friend of mine, who was a full-time gamer that received lots of mocking by online voice chat that. Just because he messed up one round, he was called names and somebody even shouted him “I will fucking kill you if I meet you!”. After this harassment, he never uses voice chat anymore unless he plays the game with the people he know. All in all, the simplest solution to online harassment is to block them & report them for abuse on the forum. Stay safe everyone!
ReplyDeleteWe all know that technology nowadays really helps people a lot with their daily routine. People can do their job much more efficient than usual. For example, people can use computer to typing rather than writting using a pen or pencil. The other function of technology that is very relevant is communication. We can communicate with family, friends, and many people out there with gadgets. But now, since everything has their positive and negative sides, technology is also have negative sides. In this case, the negative side is harassment in online life. Since communication with gadget is easier, and we don't have to meet face to face with the peopel who we want to talk with, people are often more courageous to talk dirty or maybe threaten people through this online communication with gadget. People freely throw their words to other people that maybe can harass and make people feel uncomfortable or unsafe. Of course this makes people who are threatened feel trauma, and can cause bay to their social life. Maybe they don't want to open up to their friends or maybe new people, and always feel unsafe as i said before. The best way to deal with this, i think is to block the person who threaten the victim, or maybe, if you report this to the police, the persin who threaten the victim will be prosecuted with UU ITE.
ReplyDeleteOnline harassment is one of the examples of drawbacks created by the existence of Internet which might be arguably inevitable. As something that you post online can be seen by anyone these makes something you publish online prone to online harassment. People responsible for online bullying do these because they might experienced bad experience themselves in the real life, which might gives them urges to deliver that similar experience to others. Internet is commonly used by these online bullies because it is a virtual world that makes these people feels invincible as there’s little to no chance that the bullies and the random victim might encounter in real life. We as an educated internet users should try to reduce these problems in any way we could because even if we don’t think that this a big problem, the victim of these might feel that it is. And for someone who had experienced these problems, you should try your best to ignore it and you should also set in your mind that any online harassment that happens online won’t effect you as a person as long as you don’t care about it.
ReplyDeleteNowadays, the advancement of technology is way than what we expected. The advantage of the internet seems has no limitation; and so the disadvantage. One example of the internet disadvantage is the occurring of harassment. Well, does it even exist in online? Yes, it does. Doing such harassment through online might be considered as a cyber crime; even more, the impact of becoming a victim of cyber crime sometimes can be worst compare to crime in the real life condition.
ReplyDeleteBased on the article, most of the cyber crime victim is from the range of 18-24 years of age; meaning that the current young generation seems very fragile in using the internet. By that, this data should be a crucial information for all the parents out there. Because they should realize how vulnerable the disadvantage of an internet is, so they can keep in track on their kids while using an internet. We know that everything about internet is unlimited, so it’s parents job to create the limitation in order to prevent the cyber crime happen to their children.
Unfortunately, online harassment is not an uncommon thing. We can see it in many forms: cyber bullying, hacking, hoax, and the list keeps getting bigger each day. Why is it with the advancements of new technology instead of seeing less of online harassment we actually witness more of it? The developments of better technology should enable users to keep their privacy more securely thus protecting themselves from any type of online harassment. But at the same time, it also benefits the hacker because they can be anonymous when they commit their crime and this is what gives them the power to be brutal. Because of this, users need to be more careful when using any media online. They can do this by not sharing private information such as address and phone number online; they should not share their locations live on the internet; do not talk to strangers; and not befriending anyone who is not their family or friends.
ReplyDeleteIn the modern era, technology helps us to get things done. Technology simplifies us to do our work, fulfill our daily needs, and many more. But the development of technology also brings bad impact. One of the most well-known negative impact is online harassment. In general, online harassment is the activity through online and websites to bully or otherwise harass an individual or group through personal attacks. Online harassment can be considered a crime. It can be in the form of hoax, cyberbullying, and many more. Personally, I have never experienced online harassment and hope it will not happen to me. I know some of my friends that has experienced being a victim of this crime. There was a person that left an inappropriate comment on my friend’s post, and it became a problem. To avoid online harassment, we can start by protecting our personal information. Be careful to who you share your information with, and do not publish your exact address, live location or others. In this modern era, we should be more wise in using technology to avoid crimes like these.
ReplyDeleteThe growing cyber world in this era is also followed by the growing number of harassment in the cyber world. Sadly, we have to admit that kind of a relation. Cyber world is used by millions of people around the world. When they move together based on a specified event or news, it will be close to impossible to control the movement from those people.
ReplyDeleteFrom many kinds of harassment, one of them is really dangerous. Bullying in the cyber world can be so massive and uncontrollable. It is like showing our dark side to the people. In a real world, we tend to act politely because we are interacting with each other directly. In the cyber world, we can easily hide our identity so that we can be interacting with each other indirectly.
Those people don’t hesitate to bully a person based on a social judgment. We may say that this is the consequence of what we do. But, the effect could be more greater than what we do. When a person is bullied by many people, he starts to lose his confidence. When he meets the limit of his confidence, he may start to get sick psychologically or even commit suicide. It is a sad fact we find in this new cyber era.
Online harassment happens alot nowadays. You would think that the internet would help us be closer to each other since it helps us communicate easier. The reason so many cyber bullies are on the internet is because they are cowards who know that as long as it is online, there will be no consequences towards them. They know that maybe they are half way around the world and that the person they are harassing won't and can't do anything to the bully.
ReplyDeleteWith the rapid growth of technology in today’s world, it is easier for internet users to voice out their opinions publically. While this might be a good thing, some users misuse this opportunity and use it to harass others. This is known as cyberbullying and is now one of the most common type of bullying. Cyberbullying can range from mean comments on someone’s Instagram to serious threats sent directly to the user. I personally feel that cyberbullying is the worse type of bullying as we don’t know how badly it affects the person that is harassed and it only motivates the harasser to send more hurtful words. It is also easy for these online bullies to hide their identity which allows them to say more hurtful things without being exposed. Although the social media platforms have already acknowledged these harassments in their platform and has tried their best to get rid of them, there are still so many of these bullies out there that needs to be stopped. As a daily user of social media myself, it is all of our responsibility to ensure that these online bullies should be contained by educating one another.
ReplyDeleteCyberspace has already become a reality for most of the citizen all over the world. You can literally make lots of lots of money just from sitting in front of your computer or maybe you can become an instant hit just because you post some kind of photos or maybe videos in the internet. Like it or not, some people has already leaving the real life and focusing on something they do in the internet and there is nothing wrong about that. What you really need is you really need to be aware about the consequences that you will face in the internet.
ReplyDeleteFirst, don’t expect that everyone will like you or your style or what ever including your behavior, your principles of thinking or even things that you do or have. Hater will be haters so be it. You have to prepared mentally that cyber bullying will happened at least once, so be prepared.
Second, use your common sense, it’s a sense that is not so common. Know where you living, what kind of behavior that the people or your follower have and try to adjust your content so that it can be suitable for every one. Post something that’s nice USING YOUR COMMON SENSE and also don’t judge and don’t spread the hate. It’s really just a basic thing. You all knew that.
Third, make it private, it’s really a good option to make your account private so that you can filter your followers. Its really important to have a really trustable, loyal and understand you as a follower so that you can express your self better. I’m going to take Instagram as an example, these days, most people have what they called as a first IG account, which is an account that they will share it to public so that the public have the ide of how this person is. The first IG is basically what you want to give an image of yourself to a public and the second IG is the place where you share anything to your close friends.
Fourth, don’t set your goals to be a celebrity or something, I think that its not necessary to build an image, so fake so that people like you. If you have a good personality or something that people find it attractive, it’s a natural thing. Most people also judge you in real life so maybe if you give an image so fake, you will eventually be called as a fake person. Back to the main point of the social media, it’s just a media, the social thing is real human that you met somewhere so don’t forget the reasons why social media was made in the first place.
That’s a tips from me and by the way, if you bullied for no specific reasons or something, maybe you should talk to the bully or maybe try to ask an advice from older people. But as always, don’t forget to do self-introspection. Despite of who is wrong and right, we also a factor of why that thing happened. See you on another article.
Internet have nearly become our primary daily needs though not all of them may need that much but still most people still need the internet to do their job, relieve their stress, speak to their loved ones, and etc. it can’t be denied that internet has brought us many benefits but still like every other things it has a its own disadvantage as well when normal, smart , common people will use the internet for their needs or for other people need there are also who use the internet just for their fun or spread their hatred this is called an online harassment, and the most common online harassment that I hear is bullying or cyber bullying. Cyber bullying is a very dangerous thing although I think it depends on how the victim react to it because based on my experience I am not really affected to cyber bullying although sometime I got bullied but yeah it’s still okay but I know some people may disagree with me and it is always the person who bullied is the one who is wrong and actually that is also correct so I just wanna say that in online harassment it is not always the victim who is right but it can be the person who bully them, maybe they have their own reason why they do it, but this doesn’t mean I am pro cyber bullying okay. - Dimasbitel (Dimas Aditya Permana)
ReplyDeleteIt's sad how people may have an alter ego once they go online. Most people can be a different person once they're on the internet since they know they are hiding behind the screen, having their identity hidden. Some may think that the internet is a safe space where they can say whatever they want, without even considering the feelings of other internet users. Cyberbullying is one of the problems that occur through social media which should be tackled seriously. There are several celebrities who couldn't bear with critics from netizen who constantly bullies them, and ends up having mental problem which may lead to drugs overdose, or worse, suicide. I think it is important for the government to have policies that will protect all internet users and ensure that attacking or harassing any individuals online is considered a violence. Promoting awareness towards these issues should also be taken seriously since internet users are continuously growing.
ReplyDeleteSocial Media Harrasment is starting to become a normal thing nowadays, because the internet has a reach as far as the person who uses it allow. A lot of people right now is becoming ‘keyboard warrior’, an act where you think you can speak freely about anything just because you’re in social media. This saddens me because right now, people are always feeling correct about themselves. ‘Freedom of Speech’, they said. People focuses so much on the ‘free part’, that they ignore the responsibility to respect other people’s right and the need to uphold and create a healthy online environment. Online harassment could lead to so much more terrifying problems, such as suicide. As youngsters who frequent on social media, I say we need to stop doing online harassment, or any harassment in particular. Who knows, we might end up being the victim one day and no one would want to help us. So stop right now
ReplyDeleteI have heard of several cases where people are harassed online either by the people they know or strangers they absolutely have never heard of such as cyberbullying; which happens very often nowadays amongst high schoolers. I’ve never really taken these cases that seriously as I have never experienced them personally myself, thank God, but after reading this article, these cases actually seem pretty extreme to the point that a woman moved somewhere else after receiving physical threats and exposure of her home address. As for cyberbullying, I’ve kind of more or less experienced it but it was something that I was able to ignore as they were just petty words typed online by people who are lower than trash, which didn’t bother me at all. I’ve experienced many backstabs and insults throughout my middle and high school years and was able to deal with them very well because I know that the things that people say were mostly baseless and garbage and I was able to burn them back twice as hard with my ability to quickly find people’s weak spots.
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion, online harassment is one of the negative effects or the downsides that are made by the Internet which may be apparently inescapable. Every post that you post online can be watched, read, or seen by anybody whether you know the person or not. This makes the videos or pictures that you post are prone to online provocation or harassment. I believe individuals that are in charge of online harassment and bullying do these horrible things because of the fact that they may experience bad things in their real life which made them feel the need to bully someone or they are just having fun in their own way and it is the wrong way. The internet is usually used by these online individuals that bully and harass other individuals because internet is a virtual world that makes these individuals feels powerful as there is practically zero possibility that the internet jerks and the victim of bully or harassment would meet in the real life. I also believe that we as internet users should try to minimize these issues in every way that we could. Why? Because even if it doesn’t affect us, it definitely affects greatly to the victims of online harassment. I think that it is important to not be effected by these online harassment, because what those jerks said online does not define who you are as a human and don’t let their words bring you down.
ReplyDeleteOnline harassment comes in different forms : cyberbullying, hate speech, promotion of self-harm, pornographic content, intellectual property protection and identity theft. Online harassment seems to know no boundaries, with constantly new opportunities for malevolence evolving all the time. Although it seems to be evolving overtime, the core concept is simple, a person uses online avenues like email, social media, apps and websites to cause emotional distress. Usually, it's just hateful words, but sometimes it spills over into physical threats or even worse, death threats. One of these online harassment cases I’m moat familiar with is the suicide of Amanda Todd. Amanda Michelle Todd is a 15-year-old Canadian student who is a victim of severe cyber and real-life bullying who committed suicide by hanging. At first, she used video chat to meet new people over the internet where she received compliments on her looks. Not so long after, a stranger convinced Amanda to bare her breasts on camera and took screenshots of it, threating her to spread it to her friends unless she gave him a “show”. It was months after that suddenly photos spread online, causing her to develop anxiety, depression and panic disorder and leads her to begin consuming drugs and alcohol. For the sake of her health, her family moved to a new home and transferred her to a new school. However, it only took a year for the stranger to appear online and beginning to contact Amanda’s new friends. Bullying at her new school was inevitable and was more severe than ever. Amanda was taunted by her friends at school due to her low grades after she spent some time in the hospital to treat her severe depression. Upon returning, she was still bullied and even called a psycho for having depression. On October 10, 2012, Amanda was found hanging at her home. I first knew this case when my teacher showed me her video entitled My Story: Struggling, bullying, suicide and self-harm, which showed her using a series of flashcards to tell of her experiences being bullied. Since then, I realized that online harassment like cyberbullying is much more serious and vicious than traditional bullying as is not limited to playgrounds and school yards but takes place at home as well, making the victim defenseless 24/7.
ReplyDeleteGlobalization has brought us to an era where boundaries between countries is no longer exist; technology and digitalization is the “transportation” that has taken us to this era where people can easily state their opinions, speak out, or even criticize others. However, this media that gives us the ease to communicate with people across the world is often misused by some people. To be honest, I’ve never experienced or witnessed any harassment in social media. From what my friends have witnessed and shared with me though, I observe that most online harassment which they shared to me involve physical look threatening e-mail. With my little knowledge about cyberbullying and online harassment, I want to share my view about on these topics. I believe that the ease of commenting on others has encouraged some groups of people to make bad comments on others as the recipient might not know who’s actually harassing them. Being unknown gives them the confidence to speak anything; what these people should know is that there’s always a limitation when criticizing or showing opinions about others. Online harassment is a serious problem in today’s society. It doesn’t just give short-term effect to the recipient but also negative long-term effects such as mental problems or lose of confidence. For the case of Brianna Wu mentioned in the article, I believe that this is no longer just online harassment as her reputation is damaged as well. All in all, I believe that we now live in a world where there’s no private space. Online harassment is something that we should avoid and prevent, but in case this type of crime happens to any of you, let’s just be brave to speak up and don’t ever look down on yourself.
ReplyDeleteHarassment is indeed a common part of online life. Most celebrities have tons of negative comments directed to them. People often post judge comments about celebrities, from the way they look, such as too thick or too thin, to the way they do or behave, such as his “fakeness” in front of a camera. What’s worse is that there are a lot of people who are giving dangerous threats to the victims, such as wishing them a bad luck. Sadly, these unnecessary comments can affect the mind of the victim. Those who are harassed may felt hurt from the comments and end up having a breakdown. Even a short comment of “you’re so ugly” might affect the victim so much, more than the bullies expect. Bullies may think that it is not a big deal and the victim should not take it personally, but those comments are offensive and hurtful. Therefore, harassment in online life or cyberbullying should be stopped, and we should watch our mouth (or in this case, our texts)
ReplyDeleteThe advancement of technology has brought human life to a whole new different level. It has allowed human to connect with others around the globe. While the advancement of technology had brought many prominent advantages to human life, it also had brought some unfortunate disadvantages. The disadvantages are rather inevitable although still plausible to be eliminated. One of the disadvantages is as written on the article; online harassment. Online harassment ranged from name calling, calling for threats, sexual harassment, to stalking. As a user, I have both seen and experienced harassment online and all I can say is that it was a very unpleasant experience. The internet is a place where every single person on the earth has the right to feel safe. It should be a place to seek sources of fun, academic, and other interests. Therefore, surfing the internet should not be a burden to any of its users anywhere particularly because of the harassment.
ReplyDeleteIn this era of globalization, technology has developed rapidly and we can obtain global information easily. However, there are several disadvantages due to the process of globalization. One of the disadvantages is online harassment. Online harassment is defined as any form of bully through online applications. This is a common tragedy in the digitalized era especially through social media. Online harassment has become a serious problem as it crossed people’s personal boundary and in the extreme case, there are several forms of the threatening action. According to the U.S. federal law enforcement, online or cyber harassment is considered to be a criminal action and there are penalties for people who did it and it includes imprisonment. In my opinion, a lot of people underestimate the danger of online harassment and find it as another form of sarcasm. Online harassment may cause damage to reputation which results in possibilities of depression or any mental illness.
ReplyDeleteThere are a lot of harassment cases these days. This is because it is very easy for people to do it now, especially through the internet. People usually experience harassment from social media where they would be stalked or they would be sexually harassed through the internet. It is pretty hard to point out harassment that is conducted through the internet because it is very easy for users of the internet to cover up their tracks. Preventing it from happening is also hard because the government would not be able to know without it being reported since the government does not have the right to invade other people’s privacy. Another reason why it is hard is because people are not confident enough to report it to the government since they could be embarrassed. In my opinion the government should take more serious measures when it comes to harassment whether it is through the internet or in real life because even though they do not have the right to look into the user’s private life through social media it is only the government that can help.
ReplyDeleteFor instance, the government could make up a rule about it or at least make the user’s aware that it would be better for them to report it because when seeing the trend of crime these days if one person would report it then other people will follow since they know that society and the state itself is already concerned about something like this. When it comes to online harassment, the best that the users could do for the mean time is blocking or reporting the person. Not to the government but through the application itself. Blocking the person harassing them is the most efficient thing to do because it would not allow them to access the victim’s profile anymore. In conclusion, harassment could be done through many ways and the government should either prevent it from happening or lessen it.
ReplyDeleteHarassment and assault happen every day to someone. Whether online or in real life. I have experienced it myself (being “cat calling” when I walking down the street alone). It’s very disgusting, and the look in their eyes is sick and it’s beyond creepy. I have seen it happen to numerous other women. It’s not okay, and just because a touch or a conversation isn’t assaultive doesn’t mean it can’t still make someone uncomfortable. And if someone has the courage to tell you that they are uncomfortable about what you are doing then you should respect it, stop doing it, and not mock their concerns. And this is why I’d like to urge you [men] to think before you speak. Think of all of the women in the world – the mothers, the grandmothers, the daughters, the granddaughters, the wives, the sisters, the aunts, the nieces. If you have any one of those, or even know any one of those, would you find it tolerable for them to have to experience harassment for the sole purpose that they are a woman? And In the end, we are all people who deserve kindness, and respect, regardless of our gender. It is the least we can do for each other.
ReplyDeleteOnline harassment is something that’s quite common nowadays, especially between players of online competitive games such as CSGO or DOTA, as a player, me and my friends have been frequently being harassed through trash talks, and sometimes our nationality as an indonesian’s being mocked by the term “indog”. Even worse, our teammate sometimes do that as well. I know it exactly that online harassment cases were also can be found frequently in social media platforms especially in indonesia where the netizens are mostly lacking of education regarding the importance to hold their fingers to not to type negative comments on something that’s intended for positive purposes or simply for comedic purposes. Some famous cases that took place recently in Indonesia was the case of Ratna Sarumpaet as well as this YouTuber named as Tretan Muslim which accused by “butt-hurted” Indonesians for making fun of religion while actually, it’s just something that’s intended only for sarcastic purposes. To be clear, social media harassment is something that needs to be avoided by every single netizen in order to make the social media a salt-free environment. Salt here refers to the negative comments made by people in social media or real life.
ReplyDeleteAs the world is evolving, harassment can happen anywhere, including online. Any type of harassment is never considered appropriate, but since the internet is a free platform for everyone, the boundaries to it may seem vague. That is why most people don’t consider harassment as a very significant thing to report to the authorities. I think the most common example that’s popular right now is hurtful comments on social media (specifically Instagram). That’s because Instagram is so easy to access, and it’s free for everyone. I may have experienced some kind of online harassments where there was this one comment on my Instagram stating something that I guess was some personal info that isn’t even based on facts. I was butt-hurt for a while but I chose to just ignore it and delete the comment. Everyone may have different perspectives about it. While some tend to just ignore those comments, some may get really offended. My advice is to always be careful of what you say online, because you never know how it might impact one being.
ReplyDeleteThe internet is the only place where you can roast and insult people as hard as you can without getting punched in the face. There are so many toxic people that comment bad things in someone’s social media account, like catcalling and body shaming. Even there are people that send murder threat or blackmailing to someone that they do not like. All of these is the bad effect of internet.
ReplyDeleteEven though there are laws regarding the cyber crime and online harassment, the enforcement of these law is not really strict and many cyber criminal and online harasser roaming freely on the internet without punished.
The education of “netizen” should be done to reduce the spread of online harassment, like hate speech and hoax in Indonesia. Indonesia also has to create a cyber police to restore order on the internet, because currently, the internet world in Indonesia is unhealthy.
The existence of internet makes everything to be easily done, in both positive and negative aspects of our lives. One of the negatives is an online harassment. I found it really shameful to know that people in this world still do harassment to others. Sometimes I lost faith in humanity. It’s not an uncommon thing anymore to see people sort of “attack” each other in social media. Nowadays we can say that it’s our daily intake of life to see one mocking another one. How is it so pity? Even now it exists a kind of account on instagram or twitter discussing only about the “war” of people in the platform. There is a saying of “stalking kills”. A kind of play from the famous “smoking kills”. As time goes by, the saying gets more relatable and true. Just by stalking could “kill”, not literally, but could be literally too. I think it’s very important right now to think before you upload everything on social media.
ReplyDeleteI do believe that online harassment is terrible thing and very common. The solution is certainly not as simple as turning off the computer or your phone. Even though this kind of negative interaction occurs in cyberspace, this also has serious consequences in the real world, which could be very dangerous. Victims can be caught in mental or emotional stress, their reputation is damaged, or they feel insecure. It could also lead to suicidal thoughts that will endanger the victim. HeartMob, a site that provides real-time support to people who experience online abuse, defines online harassment as a variety of negative behaviors such as hate messages, doxing (spreading one's personal information to the internet), ddoS attacks, swatting (deceiving the police or other officials to visit certain home addresses), slander, and many more. The goal of harassment is to expel targets from the internet, or punish them by spreading personal information, sending threats, or inciting people.
ReplyDeleteSo according to the Pew Research Center report in 2017, almost half of Americans have experienced online harassment. The majority of Americans (66 percent) have witnessed harassment or threatening behavior by others on the internet. Young women and minority groups are particularly vulnerable to this kind of attack. Even though sometimes you feel helpless if you have been threatened or harassed online, this trauma can be faced, but in the worst case, there some type of trauma that cannot be faced, especially if the harassment are going way too deep and personal. Online harassers could also be triggered and shaped by the factor of where the country they originated from. If the education service offered in the country is bad, most likely the knowledge and mind of it’s citizens are weak, therefore do not think about the long term impact of online harassment. So its very important to teach people how to behave properly in the Internet medium so these online harassment can be prevented.
DeleteThe advancement of technology in modern era has lead us to many things, including cyberbullying. It's very common nowadays for people to experience cyberbullying especially teenagers. Digitalization is one factor which provides a platform for cyberbullies. Although some people are mentally strong to face the cruel internet life, some people may have experienced depression because of what they had to go through online. I consider myself someone who has a thick skin meaning I don't really care what other people say, but then you have other people who gets easily offended or hurt. Bullying is still a big problem and more people need to speak up because, people are too scared to report to the authorities so it's not easy for the authorities to understand and eventually fix the problem. Furthermore, you don't know what's going to happen on the internet, there are bad people out there, cyberbullying is not the only problem on the internet there; scam is also a big problem and so is doxxing (spreading people's private information) so I would say it's better off to use the internet wisely and spend less time on it.
ReplyDeleteWith the arrival of the internet, some aspects of our daily life has undergone significant changes. Social environments such as the organisation of work, the education system, our way of interacting, the media, political campaigning, artistic activity or urban development have been significantly impacted, giving rise to new challenges in areas of social intervention. Harassment is no longer only about the face-to-face confrontation in the school hallways, instead the advance of the digital world has become a significant problem that causes cyber harassment. It can be widely defined as the use of online aggression, and includes attacks, negative comments, mockery and sexual references. There are many serious consequences that could rise from cyber-harassment, from permanent psychological problems to underachievement in school. If you are the target of this type of inappropriate online behaviour, or if a student confides to you that he or she is being harassed or stalked online, you should report it.
ReplyDeleteInternet has changed so much within the past decades. And now, our reality seems borderless. Everything can be done with a slide of a screen. Sometimes, people hide behind those screen. For most of us, our personality tend to be different online than reality. People tend to be bolder and less conscious about the consequences of their action. We may not realize it, but sometimes, our simple action could affect somebody else’s life. It could be extremely harmful to others. It can even harm their mental state which can leads to physical illnesses. These inhumane actions are what I personally think to be an online harassment. In my opinion, some measures has to be taken seriously to mitigate the consequences of these acts. As the awareness of us, “netizens”, are still not enough. Plenty of people will continue to be victims. But, internet will always be internet. As hard as we work, the freedom that attracts us to it will continue to be a double-edged sword.
ReplyDeleteA lot of us seems to look at online life as a free place to do whatever we want which can make some people to post anything without thinking the effect of it. This is really disappointing for me that there is quite a lot of numbers that shows most people in the internet has seen or experienced online harassment. I think those people do it because they could be anonym or they could be someone else with a different identity on the internet which made them think that whatever they do online won’t be their responsibility. There is a lot of people that said mean and hurtful things online and when they get asked to meet up with the people they attack, they chickened out. The fact that only 5% of the people harassed online report it to the police make it seems like it was nothing and the online bully could send hate to another person without feeling guilty.
ReplyDeleteOnline harassment also known as cyber bullying is any form of bullying which takes place online. Online harassment is a very common thing in the internet or online world. Online harassment or cyber bullying affects people from any age or walk of life, including children, teens and adults who all feel very distressed and alone when being bullied online. Cyber bullying can make you feel totally overwhelmed and sad at the same time which can result in many feeling embarrassed that they are going through such a devastating time, and not knowing what support is available to help them. Many children feel unable to confide in an adult because they feel ashamed and wonder whether they will be judged, told to ignore it or close their account which they might not want to do. Online harassment also can affects their everyday lives and is a constant source of distress and worry. The worst part of online harassment or cyber bullying is it could lead to tragic events including suicide, and self-harm.
ReplyDeleteHidden under the mask of social media built a feeling of 'security' for some irresponsible users to do verbal harassment. An abusive sentence spoken can only be heard once the perpetrator speaks, but harassment on digital world stays forever. It requires all stakeholders involved to get rid of this malicious act. People should be wiser on saying things online and remember that that is a law that could ensnare whoever reported to the authorities. To prevent further victims in the future, people should be aware of the fact that everything they write or post on social media stays forever and shareable to the other users. Overly sensitive content must not be sent through the digital platforms because no one can actually guarantee the secureness of that content; is it stopped on the recipient’s hand or continuously being shared to the other person? Most importantly, the victim should utilize the existence of law enforcement to solve verbal harassment or any abusive action occurs on the digitalized world.
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