SOCIAL NETWORKING

By: Danielle Cerroni

KEY INFORMATION

• It helps you stay in touch with family and friends

• You can share pictures

• Make new friends

• People will harass you

• People feel strong behind a computer screen or

behind a cell phone

PROS

• Finding relatives you never knew about

• Find pictures of you and old friends

• Keep in touch with friends from different schools

• Keep in touch with friends over the summer

CONS

• Cyber-bullying

• Sexual/ Regular harassment

• Exploitation

• Identity theft

• Suicide

• Death threats

• Rumors

MY WORDLE

INTERVIEWING PEGGY-AGE 24

Question- What do you think of Social Networking?Answer- I like social networking because as a hairdresser I use it to keep I touch with my new and old clients. Question- Do you think people get bullied more over the internet?Answer- In todays society, yes. People feel stronger behind the computer. The internet is too open for people.Question- Do you think people commit suicide more often because of what people say over the internet?Answer- Yes, because when you’re online or on the computer being mean to someone you can’t see their physical reaction.

INTERVIEWING MY MOM

Question-What do you think of social networking?

Answer- um, I think it is important as it give the opportunity to stay in

touch with people, but I do think people abuse it.

Question- How do people abuse it?

Answer- They use it to invade other peoples privacy. They use it as a

tool to get inside peoples head.

Question- Why do you think teens commit suicide over internet issues?

Answer- Because internet issues put pressures on them that they

cannot deal with.

MY THEORY

• Teens become more at risk of harming them selves due to

what people say

• No matter what you put up or send to people, it will find its

way onto the internet.

• Gardner, Amanda. "Bullying, Abuse Linked to Suicidal

Thoughts in Kids." CNN. Cable News Network, 01 Jan. 1970.

Web. 10 May 2013.

<http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/23/health/bullying-suicidal-

thoughts>

FOLLOW UP

• CNN Health- Amanda Todd

• ABC news- Jamey Rodemeyer

QUESTIONS

• Has anyone in this room ever been bullied? Or

know anyone who has been bullied over the

internet?

• Do you have a social networking website?

• Why do you think teens feel more power full

behind a computer?

MY SOURCES

• Gardner, Amanda. "Bullying, Abuse Linked to Suicidal

Thoughts in Kids." CNN. Cable News Network, 01 Jan. 1970.

Web. 10 May 2013. http://

www.cnn.com/2012/10/23/health/bullying-suicidal-thoughts

• JAMES, SUSAN DONALDSON. "Gay Buffalo Teen Commits

Suicide on Eve of National Bullying Summit." ABC News. ABC

News Network, 21 Sept. 2011. Web. 10 May 2013.

<http://abcnews.go.com/Health/gay-buffalo-teen-commits-

suicide-eve-national-bullying/story?id=14571861>.