GROWING UP ONLINE - PART 3 - SOCIAL NETWORKING - - KEEPING IN TOUCH
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Margot Leysen Grade 12
Part 3: Social Networking – Keeping in Touch (A Revolution in Classrooms and Social Life)
3.1. One teen describes MySpace and Facebook as fun because they are “a section of the Internet that’s your own.” How is a profile – an online space – similar to and different from other parts of the world that are your own, like your bedroom, school locker or diary?
A profile online is accessible for any person to see without your permission. It is very different because the ‘other parts of the world that are your own’ have access restrictions that you can control. For example, your school locker can be locked and nobody would access it without your permission. On your profile you would put very personal information about yourself and it may contain personal feelings, especially when you have a blog. A diary is sort of similar to the blog, but you have your diary in your own bedroom; the profile is there for the whole world to see.
3.2. As shown in the program, social networking sites can be used as a way to “talk junk,” insult others or hash out conflicts. Is fighting online a relatively safe way to express negative emotions in responding to others (without having to deal with them face to face)? Or does online fighting do more harm than good?
Online fighting is not safe because people feel like they can say more to the other person since they do not have to face them. When you are face to face, I think you will realise faster that the other is just a person like you. You will feel more restricted since you have to say it face to face. Therefore online fighting will do more harm than face to face fighting.
3.3. The program describes social networking sites as places where kids post pictures, accumulate friends, post messages to others and describe themselves. What other kinds of things do teens and young adults do on social networking sites that aren’t mentioned?
Teenagers on social networking are also able to: • Play games together • Post videos • Post blogs • Find old friends • Share interests
3.4. Girls describe how online name calling among different groups escalated to physical violence between girls in a school cafeteria. The event was videotaped by students and posted to YouTube. From the list below, choose three of the following groups. Explain the similarities and differences in how the fight video would function for each group – and how these groups might perceive the video.
The girls who were fighting in the video – Parents of the girls who were fighting – Teens who viewed the video online
The girls who were fighting in the video might perceive the video as something humiliating. As the girls said in the program, they do not understand how it could have come this far since they did not even know the girls personally. The parents of the girls that were fighting might feel ashamed of their children for two reasons. The first reason is that their daughter would actually use physical violence to solve a dispute. The second reason might be when the parents discover how the dispute started. The girls did not even know the others personally; it was just for fun to start a fight online. A similarity between the girls and their parents is that they perceive the video as something negative. It shows a low point in their life and both the parents as the girls know that this video will have negative consequences since it might hurt their college applications or something else. The difference between these two groups is how their environment will react to the video. For the girls in school their peers might think that it is something cool that they did. They actually had the guts to start a fight. The people around the parents of these girls might be very judgemental and saying things like: ‘They did not raise their daughter properly, otherwise she would have never got into the fight.’ So for the girls this video might evoke some positive reactions of their peers but for the parents the reactions will be negative. The third group, teens who viewed the video online, may perceive this video as something really cool. They might think it is great that girls start to fight in a school cafeteria because it would bring some action in the school. This is because it is not actually in their own school. For them this is just a story, it is not a part of their reality. The reaction of these teens will be different than the girls who started the fight since the teens will not think about the consequences of this video for the girls’ future. They just see it as a funny event without thinking it through. There would not be any similarity since these two groups perceive the video in a total different way. Also for the parents and the teens online there are no similarities. However, there is a different between the parents and the teens. The teens will have respect for what the girls have done, but the parents not at all.
Part 3: Social Networking – Keeping in Touch (A Revolution in Classrooms and Social Life)
3.1. One teen describes MySpace and Facebook as fun because they are “a section of the Internet that’s your own.” How is a profile – an online space – similar to and different from other parts of the world that are your own, like your bedroom, school locker or diary?
It is similar to an utility the teenagers use, in the way that profile on the internet is definitely yours, you have agreed to open an account and show yourself to your friends and make more friends, you can define and show your abilities and feelings to share with someone else. But the difference with diary and lockers, it is not physical it is a pieces of electronic signals that carry the personal and sensitive information of the user all over the internet. One moment it is very yours, but that information could easily be stolen, distorted when reached a wrong place in the wide cyberspace.
3.2. As shown in the program, social networking sites can be used as a way to “talk junk,” insult others or hash out conflicts. Is fighting online a relatively safe way to express negative emotions in responding to others (without having to deal with them face to face)? Or does online fighting do more harm than good?
When there was a traditional way of fighting between accomplices, it used to be divided between girls and boys way. Boys used to take things very physically and used to resolve problems immediately and without any pretense of being nice to each other. Girls on the other hands were more quiet in fighting with each other, they did not tear each other up and made their conflict known to the public’s eyes, but though it was mainly not physical it had great psychological impacts on the girl. In my opinion, the online fighting is very verbal with its silent threats and its gestures like girls, but it could also mean that the hatred and dislike between the arguing sides can be misinterpreted and stretched out to the point that the argument may lose its focus, it could become a routine and continue. Instead of dealing with each other by fighting it becomes living with each other by fighting. And that could increase the level of hatred and may lead to unnecessary violence.
3.3. The program describes social networking sites as places where kids post pictures, accumulate friends, post messages to others and describe themselves. What other kinds of things do teens and young adults do on social networking sites that aren’t mentioned?
The following are the things that teenagers do that weren’t mentioned in the video: uploading videos of themselves, blogging their views, commenting on people’s photos, sending bulleting news to all the friends, anonymously surfing through distant friend’s profiles, share videos/news/pictures that were posted on other sites.
3.4. Girls describe how online name calling among different groups escalated to physical violence between girls in a school cafeteria. The event was videotaped by students and posted to YouTube. From the list below, choose three of the following groups. Explain the similarities and differences in how the fight video would function for each group – and how these groups might perceive the video.
• The girls who were fighting in the video – The girls might have gained some popularity in their school and among their peers for a while, and their parents might have been contacted about their behavior by the school administration and been a target to punishment. These are the short term consequences, but in the world of the information era, keeping good information about yourself is important, and as the girls themselves said: “Their future employers would see the video or the colleges would see the video, therefore it has long term effects on the well-being of the girls, because once it is spread, the whole world will see it, and there is not returning it.
• Other students in school – The video could act as a way of entertainment; they could perceive this video and the fight amusing. But for them, this fight escalated online could also mean that they shouldn’t take violence out in the public, and it lets them learn that online fighting is still one of the strongest and most anonymous and safe ways to fight.
• The person who filmed it and uploaded it- the fight did not mean anything to them personally, but they thought they should share it with the world, because that is what everyone does when something interesting happens. It is not in their mind that the fight between the two girls is definitely not their business, and they have certain permissions to get to upload the photo. But as this scene is entirely public, it doesn’t already matter who and why they are fighting, the watching of that fight becomes their possession. Maybe the people who filmed it thought: ‘ It was for everyone in the cafeteria to see, why not the rest of the town and the rest of the world?’ This would illustrate the break of the boundary between privacy in a community and global privacy.
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Margot Leysen Grade 12
Part 3: Social Networking – Keeping in Touch (A Revolution in Classrooms and Social Life)
3.1. One teen describes MySpace and Facebook as fun because they are “a section of the Internet that’s your own.” How is a profile – an online space – similar to and different from other parts of the world that are your own, like your bedroom, school locker or diary?
A profile online is accessible for any person to see without your permission. It is very different because the ‘other parts of the world that are your own’ have access restrictions that you can control. For example, your school locker can be locked and nobody would access it without your permission. On your profile you would put very personal information about yourself and it may contain personal feelings, especially when you have a blog. A diary is sort of similar to the blog, but you have your diary in your own bedroom; the profile is there for the whole world to see.
3.2. As shown in the program, social networking sites can be used as a way to “talk junk,” insult others or hash out conflicts. Is fighting online a relatively safe way to express negative emotions in responding to others (without having to deal with them face to face)? Or does online fighting do more harm than good?
Online fighting is not safe because people feel like they can say more to the other person since they do not have to face them. When you are face to face, I think you will realise faster that the other is just a person like you. You will feel more restricted since you have to say it face to face. Therefore online fighting will do more harm than face to face fighting.
3.3. The program describes social networking sites as places where kids post pictures, accumulate friends, post messages to others and describe themselves. What other kinds of things do teens and young adults do on social networking sites that aren’t mentioned?
Teenagers on social networking are also able to:
• Play games together
• Post videos
• Post blogs
• Find old friends
• Share interests
3.4. Girls describe how online name calling among different groups escalated to physical violence between girls in a school cafeteria. The event was videotaped by students and posted to YouTube. From the list below, choose three of the following groups. Explain the similarities and differences in how the fight video would function for each group – and how these groups might
perceive the video.
The girls who were fighting in the video –
Parents of the girls who were fighting –
Teens who viewed the video online
The girls who were fighting in the video might perceive the video as something humiliating. As the girls said in the program, they do not understand how it could have come this far since they did not even know the girls personally.
The parents of the girls that were fighting might feel ashamed of their children for two reasons. The first reason is that their daughter would actually use physical violence to solve a dispute. The second reason might be when the parents discover how the dispute started. The girls did not even know the others personally; it was just for fun to start a fight online. A similarity between the girls and their parents is that they perceive the video as something negative. It shows a low point in their life and both the parents as the girls know that this video will have negative consequences since it might hurt their college applications or something else. The difference between these two groups is how their environment will react to the video. For the girls in school their peers might think that it is something cool that they did. They actually had the guts to start a fight. The people around the parents of these girls might be very judgemental and saying things like: ‘They did not raise their daughter properly, otherwise she would have never got into the fight.’ So for the girls this video might evoke some positive reactions of their peers but for the parents the reactions will be negative.
The third group, teens who viewed the video online, may perceive this video as something really cool. They might think it is great that girls start to fight in a school cafeteria because it would bring some action in the school. This is because it is not actually in their own school. For them this is just a story, it is not a part of their reality. The reaction of these teens will be different than the girls who started the fight since the teens will not think about the consequences of this video for the girls’ future. They just see it as a funny event without thinking it through. There would not be any similarity since these two groups perceive the video in a total different way. Also for the parents and the teens online there are no similarities. However, there is a different between the parents and the teens. The teens will have respect for what the girls have done, but the parents not at all.
Part 3: Social Networking – Keeping in Touch (A Revolution in Classrooms and Social Life)
3.1. One teen describes MySpace and Facebook as fun because they are “a section of the Internet that’s your own.” How is a profile – an online space – similar to and different from other parts of the world that are your own, like your bedroom, school locker or diary?
It is similar to an utility the teenagers use, in the way that profile on the internet is definitely yours, you have agreed to open an account and show yourself to your friends and make more friends, you can define and show your abilities and feelings to share with someone else. But the difference with diary and lockers, it is not physical it is a pieces of electronic signals that carry the personal and sensitive information of the user all over the internet. One moment it is very yours, but that information could easily be stolen, distorted when reached a wrong place in the wide cyberspace.
3.2. As shown in the program, social networking sites can be used as a way to “talk junk,” insult others or hash out conflicts. Is fighting online a relatively safe way to express negative emotions in responding to others (without having to deal with them face to face)? Or does online fighting do more harm than good?
When there was a traditional way of fighting between accomplices, it used to be divided between girls and boys way. Boys used to take things very physically and used to resolve problems immediately and without any pretense of being nice to each other. Girls on the other hands were more quiet in fighting with each other, they did not tear each other up and made their conflict known to the public’s eyes, but though it was mainly not physical it had great psychological impacts on the girl. In my opinion, the online fighting is very verbal with its silent threats and its gestures like girls, but it could also mean that the hatred and dislike between the arguing sides can be misinterpreted and stretched out to the point that the argument may lose its focus, it could become a routine and continue. Instead of dealing with each other by fighting it becomes living with each other by fighting. And that could increase the level of hatred and may lead to unnecessary violence.
3.3. The program describes social networking sites as places where kids post pictures, accumulate friends, post messages to others and describe themselves. What other kinds of things do teens and young adults do on social networking sites that aren’t mentioned?
The following are the things that teenagers do that weren’t mentioned in the video: uploading videos of themselves, blogging their views, commenting on people’s photos, sending bulleting news to all the friends, anonymously surfing through distant friend’s profiles, share videos/news/pictures that were posted on other sites.
3.4. Girls describe how online name calling among different groups escalated to physical violence between girls in a school cafeteria. The event was videotaped by students and posted to YouTube. From the list below, choose three of the following groups. Explain the similarities and differences in how the fight video would function for each group – and how these groups might
perceive the video.
• The girls who were fighting in the video – The girls might have gained some popularity in their school and among their peers for a while, and their parents might have been contacted about their behavior by the school administration and been a target to punishment. These are the short term consequences, but in the world of the information era, keeping good information about yourself is important, and as the girls themselves said: “Their future employers would see the video or the colleges would see the video, therefore it has long term effects on the well-being of the girls, because once it is spread, the whole world will see it, and there is not returning it.
• Other students in school – The video could act as a way of entertainment; they could perceive this video and the fight amusing. But for them, this fight escalated online could also mean that they shouldn’t take violence out in the public, and it lets them learn that online fighting is still one of the strongest and most anonymous and safe ways to fight.
• The person who filmed it and uploaded it- the fight did not mean anything to them personally, but they thought they should share it with the world, because that is what everyone does when something interesting happens. It is not in their mind that the fight between the two girls is definitely not their business, and they have certain permissions to get to upload the photo. But as this scene is entirely public, it doesn’t already matter who and why they are fighting, the watching of that fight becomes their possession. Maybe the people who filmed it thought: ‘ It was for everyone in the cafeteria to see, why not the rest of the town and the rest of the world?’ This would illustrate the break of the boundary between privacy in a community and global privacy.
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