Facebook Bullying
Facebook, one of the biggest and most popular social networks which connects us all, has brought us many good things as well as bad. Bullying is the new thing, It's now just not in person but we now have cyberbullying which is basically the same thing but over the internet.
A 15 year old Irish girl Phoeba Prince was a victim of cyberbullying over facebook which caused her to commit suicide 3 months later after all of this bullying started. They called her Suicide "the culmination of a nearly three-month campaign of verbally assaultive behavior and threats of physical harm."
They say that he commited suicide because she could not stand any more bullying through the social network Facebook and text messages, it became intolerable for her and lead her to hang herself in her home.
Facebook, the social network which we must be aware of
Facebook is one of the biggest social networks that we have today, Facebook has had a great impact on most of us. We can use it to communicate with everyone no matter where they are in no more than a few seconds. As good as Facebook can be, we should always be careful with what things we share on this social network because of it's great popularity and since it could be very easy for almost anyone to access your personal information like where you live, who your friends are and could even end up knowing which school you go to that could lead to bigger consequences as we can see in the article "When the most personal secrets get outed on Facebook."
This article shows us how we should be careful about everything we mention on there because anyone could find way of reading your things as it happened to Taylor McCormick who was added into a group letting her dad see what she least wanted him to know and unfortunately in less than minutes her dad found out that she was lesbian leaving her with nothing to do. Taylor and another student were "casualties of a privacy loophole on Facebook."
"In the era of social networks like Facebook and Google Inc.'s Google+, companies that catalog people's activities for a profit routinely share, store and broadcast everyday details of people's lives. This creates a challenge for individuals navigating the personal-data economy: how to keep anything private in an era when it is difficult to predict where your information will end up."
We have to be careful with the information we share on the internet because things could go wrong, especially when sharing information in a social network like Facebook which like in this case was not good but could have been worst because of how public your information is anyone could really use your personal information to harm you in any way they can. Facebook is a social network which we need to be aware of.
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