GROWING UP ONLINE - PART 6 - ONLINE RELATIONSHIPS - - HEALTHY OR UNHEALTHY?
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Margot Leysen Grade 12
Part 6: Online Relationships – Healthy or Unhealthy? (Private Worlds Outside Parents’ Reach? And Cyber bullying)
6.1. Teens turn to the Internet to find information about health, such as changes the body goes through, nutrition, sexuality issues, mental and emotional issues, and substance abuse. A teen who’s seeking support for a problem might surf the Web for answers, bring up the problem in a chat room or blog post, put up a video or join an online support group. In the program, we see two teens using online media to find information and express damaging thoughts and behaviours. In Sara’s case she found tips that supported and praised anorexic behaviour by browsing and chatting on “ana” sites. After experiencing online and offline bullying, Ryan Halligan chatted with a friend about killing himself and learned about various ways to commit suicide. Why might someone be attracted to dangerous or unhealthy communication and Web sites with dangerous information? Why might someone want to create such sites?
Someone might be attracted to such websites because it is all anonymous. Because you can be whoever you want online, users will start to be less afraid of things. Another reason is that they might want to feel part of a group. Some of these groups might have very extreme thoughts or opinions, making the user change his or her opinion to fit in. People might make such sites to get attention. By having such extreme thoughts or opinions they might think they are special or cool. They probably just want to get noticed. Another reason might be to express themselves. Because they cannot say these things in their real life, they might post it on a website. Because the Internet has no restrictions their ideas might become even more extreme.
6.2. Teasing, lying, gossiping, threatening, spreading rumours or harassing online (and offline) can severely affect people’s self-concept and self-esteem and have an impact on their emotional state. In the program, we see one girl who describes flirting with boys and then revealing she was just kidding. She explains: “You wouldn’t do that to someone’s face, but online is completely different. ... No one can do anything. You’re at your house, they’re at their house.” What are some of the short- and longer-term consequences of this behaviour for life online and in the real world?
A short-term consequence might be that someone is much more verbally aggressive. Since there are no restrictions on what they are saying (because they do not have to confront the person), they will feel much freer to say mean things.
A long-term consequence might be that someone who spends almost all their time online talking to people, might start to have difficulties interacting with people in the real life. Another consequence might be that a person gets more prejudices since he or she starts to judge people on very superficial information received through the Internet. This may eventually lead to more hatred.
Another long-term consequence might be that the language ability of younger people decreases. Since they have to type what they say, they will use abbreviations or slang. This will reflect later in their language usage in the real world.
Part 6: Online Relationships – Healthy or Unhealthy? (Private Worlds Outside Parents’ Reach? And Cyber bullying)
6.1. Teens turn to the Internet to find information about health, such as changes the body goes through, nutrition, sexuality issues, mental and emotional issues, and substance abuse. A teen who’s seeking support for a problem might surf the Web for answers, bring up the problem in a chat room or blog post, put up a video or join an online support group. In the program, we see two teens using online media to find information and express damaging thoughts and behaviours. In Sara’s case she found tips that supported and praised anorexic behaviour by browsing and chatting on “ana” sites. After experiencing online and offline bullying, Ryan Halligan chatted with a friend about killing himself and learned about various ways to commit suicide. Why might someone be attracted to dangerous or unhealthy communication and Web sites with dangerous information? Why might someone want to create such sites?
The intention of being attracted to this sites may be very natural. The curiosity of people are hard things to fight against. For Sara ‘ana’ sites provided a hide-out where she sought people who were like her, even though she did not know names she knew they were real people affecting the world they lived in somewhere in the planet. For Ryan, he was safe from judgments and adults trying to make sense to him that this bullying is just a phase that it will go away when you get older or something similar to that. The main reason to be attracted is finding someone who is exactly just like you, and you get to experience and know each other’s lives. Therefore there is a stronger connection between human hearts as they express themselves without danger of being judged and punished for having dangerous and unhealthy habits. It is same as the people who make the sites, either the creator of the site supports the information on their sites, or it could be that the creator has a information collecting or making business out of the sites and its users. 6.2. Teasing, lying, gossiping, threatening, spreading rumours or harassing online (and offline) can severely affect people’s self-concept and self-esteem and have an impact on their emotional state. In the program, we see one girl who describes flirting with boys and then revealing she was just kidding. She explains: “You wouldn’t do that to someone’s face, but online is completely different. ... No one can do anything. You’re at your house, they’re at their house.” What are some of the short- and longer-term consequences of this behaviour for life online and in the real world?
The short term consequences are that the spread of offensive or defensive information will spread faster than it by physical means, it could be mass distributed or anonymous mail sending and forwarding. Basically when you are sitting home and doing the above mentioned activities online, you plot and create a master plan to follow. The relationships with your targets and you is not personal and it is distanced by the fact that in the real world your target is someone you don’t usually encounter during the day. In a longer term, this kind of distanced relationship means that people will be abused more, because it is more free and easy to abuse them.
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Margot Leysen Grade 12
Part 6: Online Relationships – Healthy or Unhealthy? (Private Worlds Outside Parents’ Reach? And Cyber bullying)
6.1. Teens turn to the Internet to find information about health, such as changes the body goes through, nutrition, sexuality issues, mental and emotional issues, and substance abuse. A teen who’s seeking support for a problem might surf the Web for answers, bring up the problem in a chat room or blog post, put up a video or join an online support group. In the program, we see two teens using online media to find information and express damaging thoughts and behaviours. In Sara’s case she found tips that supported and praised anorexic behaviour by browsing and chatting on “ana” sites. After experiencing online and offline bullying, Ryan Halligan chatted with a friend about killing himself and learned about various ways to commit suicide. Why might someone be attracted to dangerous or unhealthy communication and Web sites with dangerous information? Why might someone want to create such sites?
Someone might be attracted to such websites because it is all anonymous. Because you can be whoever you want online, users will start to be less afraid of things. Another reason is that they might want to feel part of a group. Some of these groups might have very extreme thoughts or opinions, making the user change his or her opinion to fit in.
People might make such sites to get attention. By having such extreme thoughts or opinions they might think they are special or cool. They probably just want to get noticed. Another reason might be to express themselves. Because they cannot say these things in their real life, they might post it on a website. Because the Internet has no restrictions their ideas might become even more extreme.
6.2. Teasing, lying, gossiping, threatening, spreading rumours or harassing online (and offline) can severely affect people’s self-concept and self-esteem and have an impact on their emotional state. In the program, we see one girl who describes flirting with boys and then revealing she was just kidding. She explains: “You wouldn’t do that to someone’s face, but online is completely different. ... No one can do anything. You’re at your house, they’re at their house.” What are some of the short- and longer-term consequences of this behaviour for life online and in the real world?
A short-term consequence might be that someone is much more verbally aggressive. Since there are no restrictions on what they are saying (because they do not have to confront the person), they will feel much freer to say mean things.
A long-term consequence might be that someone who spends almost all their time online talking to people, might start to have difficulties interacting with people in the real life. Another consequence might be that a person gets more prejudices since he or she starts to judge people on very superficial information received through the Internet. This may eventually lead to more hatred.
Another long-term consequence might be that the language ability of younger people decreases. Since they have to type what they say, they will use abbreviations or slang. This will reflect later in their language usage in the real world.
Part 6: Online Relationships – Healthy or Unhealthy? (Private Worlds Outside Parents’ Reach? And Cyber bullying)
6.1. Teens turn to the Internet to find information about health, such as changes the body goes through, nutrition, sexuality issues, mental and emotional issues, and substance abuse. A teen who’s seeking support for a problem might surf the Web for answers, bring up the problem in a chat room or blog post, put up a video or join an online support group. In the program, we see two teens using online media to find information and express damaging thoughts and behaviours. In Sara’s case she found tips that supported and praised anorexic behaviour by browsing and chatting on “ana” sites. After experiencing online and offline bullying, Ryan Halligan chatted with a friend about killing himself and learned about various ways to commit suicide. Why might someone be attracted to dangerous or unhealthy communication and Web sites with dangerous information? Why might someone want to create such sites?
The intention of being attracted to this sites may be very natural. The curiosity of people are hard things to fight against. For Sara ‘ana’ sites provided a hide-out where she sought people who were like her, even though she did not know names she knew they were real people affecting the world they lived in somewhere in the planet. For Ryan, he was safe from judgments and adults trying to make sense to him that this bullying is just a phase that it will go away when you get older or something similar to that. The main reason to be attracted is finding someone who is exactly just like you, and you get to experience and know each other’s lives. Therefore there is a stronger connection between human hearts as they express themselves without danger of being judged and punished for having dangerous and unhealthy habits. It is same as the people who make the sites, either the creator of the site supports the information on their sites, or it could be that the creator has a information collecting or making business out of the sites and its users.
6.2. Teasing, lying, gossiping, threatening, spreading rumours or harassing online (and offline) can severely affect people’s self-concept and self-esteem and have an impact on their emotional state. In the program, we see one girl who describes flirting with boys and then revealing she was just kidding. She explains: “You wouldn’t do that to someone’s face, but online is completely different. ... No one can do anything. You’re at your house, they’re at their house.” What are some of the short- and longer-term consequences of this behaviour for life online and in the real world?
The short term consequences are that the spread of offensive or defensive information will spread faster than it by physical means, it could be mass distributed or anonymous mail sending and forwarding. Basically when you are sitting home and doing the above mentioned activities online, you plot and create a master plan to follow. The relationships with your targets and you is not personal and it is distanced by the fact that in the real world your target is someone you don’t usually encounter during the day. In a longer term, this kind of distanced relationship means that people will be abused more, because it is more free and easy to abuse them.
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