Don’t be a Troll Have you ever seen a hateful comment online? Comments so hateful people end up blocking one another or getting into fights over it. Yeah, so have I. I guarantee that kind of stuff doesn’t look good on a resume. By the end of this speech I will have you convinced that people shouldn’t be trolls. You shouldn’t, and neither should anybody else. Over the course of this speech you will know that people online are posting hurtful things about others, which shouldn’t be happening.
My harms including people may become depressed, you won’t feel good about yourself as a person, people won’t like you and many will begin to even hate you. Move Right On to my first point, the problem that is consistent all over the internet is “trolling”. Let’s start by defining the word troll. A troll is a person who deliberately makes offensive or provocative online posts with the aim of upsetting someone or eliciting an angry response from them. The cause of this trolling is immature kids deciding to be mean.
Maybe they are jealous of the person they are making fun of. OS News article titled “Why People Troll and How to Stop Them” (January 25, 2012), “The traditional definition of trolling includes intent. That is, trolls purposely disrupt forums. This definition is too narrow. Whether someone intends to disrupt a thread or not, the results are the same if they do. ” They don’t realize how they make people feel. This is an important issue that we need to deal with because people won’t stop until they realize what they’re doing to other people.
Many people around the world are being made fun of by these trolls. Sometimes, trolls aren’t just on the internet. They can be in everyday life too. Examples of these include that one kid who says a mean comment without thinking it through. We all know this can seriously hurt someone. Trolls are active all over the internet and in everyday life as previously stated. Good advice for a troll attack is to simply stay calm and don’t respond to the troll.
From that comes the saying, “Don’t feed the trolls. Move Left For my second part of this speech I will state the different effects trolling can have on people. As we know trolling can have many different effects on many different people. The negative effects include people becoming depressed. When you see a hateful comment online about yourself, you begin to feel less confident and insecure about yourself. Lack of confidence and insecurity lead to depression. Carrie Steckl, Ph. D. says “the hardest times in my life have occurred when I’ve felt insecure about my abilities, relationships, personality, or self-worth.
During these dark days, I inevitably found myself in embarrassing situations where I became insecurely attached to someone – or something – that I thought would make me whole” she goes on to say “Feeling insecure in a relationship creates anxiety over being abandoned and the feeling that every day is uncertain. It’s no wonder that those times when I felt insecurely attached were also accompanied by intense sadness. ” We know that the intense sadness she mentioned is often known as depression.
New York and Atlanta teamed up to study the neurological relationship between depression and insecure attachment. In their study, 28 women (half of them were depressed) participated in functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) while viewing images of people important to them as well as strangers. They also completed the Beck Depression Inventory, the Adult Attachment Interview, and blood-oxygen level monitoring. The team then tested the connection, if any, between depression and insecure attachment.
Interestingly, the results showed that depression and insecure attachment involved related but distinct emotionregulation processes in the brain. Another harm to trolling is you not feeling good about yourself. If you decide to troll on the internet, people will laugh and all that but deep down you are slowly losing confidence in yourself. The fact that a person would have to stoop so low just to make fun of someone is senseless. If the person you are harassing online decides to act upon what happened then basically anything can happen to you depending on what you said.
According to criminal. findlaw. om online harassment (cyberbullying) could get a person into trouble ranging anywhere from civil penalties, such as school intervention via suspensions and/or expulsions, to jail time for criminal misdemeanors and even felonies. People will begin to hate you. If you are being hated by your own community then what can you do? Nothing. When the whole community hates you, you will become depressed because nobody will like you or want to be around you. So ask yourself, what’s the point of trolling? There is no point! The only thing internet harassment will get you is hatred and possible jail time.
There is no point to cyberbullying, or being an internet troll. People who “look up to you” will follow in your footsteps by ruining people’s moods and attitudes. I’m not sure what you think but, that doesn’t seem like a very smart idea. Move Forward For my third part of this speech I will talk about how we can fix trolling. We can fix trolling basically by thinking things through. If we think about what we’re doing then we wouldn’t have any problems. Trolling is caused by people being rude online and not putting themselves in the other person’s shoes.
If you decide to post something you should think about whether it’s kind or not. Our culture tells us it’s our right to comment on everything, regardless of whether it was addressed to us and without consideration for how it might affect others. We’ve replaced face-to-face confrontation with sharp comments and mocking memes. We write demeaning tweets addressed to celebrities or openly criticize individuals we have never met, hiding behind the convenience that they cannot directly defend themselves and nobody is putting our personal lives on display for public criticism” says relevantmagazing. com.
We shouldn’t feed the trolls, if we laugh at their comments and tell them it is funny then the problem will persist. We need to take action and stop things from getting worse. If we do not take any steps to stop this, then the internet will eventually be taken over by trolls. Move Back In conclusion, when a person trolls over the internet it can cause people to become depressed. You won’t feel good about our self as person. In the beginning you may feel like you’re just making people laugh and have a good time but, after a while of ruining people’s lives you will begin to feel unscrupulous.
Also. the people who used to like you won’t anymore because you will seem like a dishonest, heartless, and immature person. Most people don’t want to hang around a person who has those types of traits. Those kids who used to be followers of you will begin to torment others and build hatred upon themselves Would you like to see the internet being taken over with thousands of trolls? I know I sure wouldn’t. Trolling can, and will ruin peoples live says relevantmagazone. com. The nest time you see someone posting hurtful comments and posts online tell them to stop before things get out of hand.
