Violation

My personal feelings about Jaron aside, he brings up a good point about the violation that happens on the internet.  Kathy Sierra was the target of a several death threats over blogs and emails, when she was slated to be a guest on the O'Reilly Etech conference.  But she isn't the only one. How many cases have been out there about Teenagers being bullied over the internet and even worse, how many of them have committed suicide because of it.




Even here at Lawrence we have seen a similar incident, as a twitter account @hatingonLU have posted some very defamatory statements towards the LU community explicitly towards the members of the GLOW members.  But how do you combat these attacks? Bullying has been an issue in schools for years. When I was younger, it was always ignore them, they're just trying to get attention and when we get upset about what they say you give them the attention they want.  Obviously when you get death threats you shouldn't just ignore them, but that's why step two tells us to get an adult.  Again, Obviously the police need to get involved in certain situations but there is one thing that we also need to be teaching our children and ourselves about the internet and it's bullying.

First, that there is such a thing as blocking and reporting things as spam.

Second, that you can change the station- it's like TV if you don't like what's on, you don't have to watch it, I've been saying that for years.

Lastly, that there is an inflation rate inside the internet.  Not everyone hates you or thinks the same way as other people, it's still ok to go talk to someone.



Bullying, death threats, and other violations are already locked into the minds of those on the internet, Trolls have made it so that people think that it is cool to do so and that is maybe the saddest part of the Internet.