Website:http://puresight.com/Real-Life-Stories/david-molak-2000-2016-puresight.html

Summary:  January, 2016, David Molak, a fitness enthusiast, Spurs fan, and an Eagle Scout, a sophomore at Alamo Heights High School in Texas, hung himself in his family's backyard because of cyberbullying. There were about 6 to 10 bullies, bringing him down with insults and comments on social media and text message. The bullies really never had a real reason to bully him, it was all out of jealousy. They might’ve been jealous because he had an attractive girlfriend, or maybe because he was a good kid minding his business. His brother said that one night he was added to a group chat and was made fun and was removed from it 2 minutes later. His brother said “In today’s age, bullies don’t push you into lockers, they don’t tell their victims to meet them behind the school’s dumpster after class. They cower behind user names and fake profiles from miles away constantly berating and abusing good, innocent people.”

Immediacy, meaning the quickness of action. Immediacy played a role in this because of when David Molak was added to the group chat, it was quick, and everyone in the chat started saying all bad things to David. He couldn’t even say anything back, after, they just removed him.

Lack of Control, meaning not having enough power to do something. Lack of control played a role in this, also when they added him in the group chat, he never asked to be in the group chat. He didn’t know he was going to be added, so he couldn’t prevented any of that.

Permanence, meaning the state of remaining unchanged. Permanence has played a role, when the kids that bullied David text all the mean things they said to him in the group chat. They might've removed him from the chat, but the messages were still sent and somewhere it's still up.

I think that kids should not bully others because they don't know how they are thinking, some kids can take the bullying more than others. Or if you are getting bullied tell someone, that's what everyone says, but telling someone could really save your life, or another.

Allison Abate                             Think before you post

Trevor project lifeline : 866-488-7386           Trevor Project Text : 202-304-1200

Trevor project-http://www.thetrevorproject.org  

Articles -http://www.thetrevorproject.org/blog/entry/tyler-oakley-celebrates-trevor

-http://www.tubefilter.com/2014/04/11/tyler-oakley-trevor-project-charity-campaign-prizeo-half-million/

       Introduction - This day, in age, all you here about is the negative things that are happening in our world and more importantly now even more on social media . For my article I am talking about about Tyler Oakley . Tyler Oakley, is a 27 year old youtube star who made a difference in our world’s younger (LGBTQ+) community. Instead of asking for gifts for his birthday Tyler asked to send in donations for the Trevor Project . The Trevor Project is an American non-profit organization founded in 1998 focused on suicide prevention efforts among lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning (LGBTQ+) and other queer youth.Tyler ended with donations at more than a half a million dollars.

      Tyler Oakley plays a role in Permanence in a very effective way. Tyler Oakley couldn’t have a better places on the internet . He used to just be known for effecting teens and adults on the internet for being funny,talking about pop culture and for entertainment.Now he not only makes people feel better,he changed peoples lifes.Permancy is effected on him now because he is saving otheres lives ,by the donations he has sent in ranking over a half a million dollars.Now everytime someone searches for him by name on the frist page of google The Trevor project comes up with an article all about him and what he did for the project.He is always going to have a good search now because of the way he impacted people and it will always be remeber by millions of people on and off the internet.

    Immediacy plays into Tyler Oakley’s  Accomplishment from the time he posted the youtube video,sent out tweets,and made a instagram post.He  got tons of support when he posted  the video. He also got some people who didn’t support him; that hate is important, it lets him know he is getting far .Once he posted that video it wasn’t going down he has over 8 million subscribers someone else has that video.Now he gives and shows eveone a sense of help that needed it or wants it.So immedicacy comes in when the video was posted on youtube it couldn’t be reversed.

       Lack of control has one of the biggest impacts on social media these day , some people don’t even realize what their getting into. In Tyler Oakley’s situation in lack of control plays out when he asked to send in donation.He couldn’t tell people to donate ,he could only ask.He could have made no donations at all , but because he did it for a really good reason he got over a half a million dollars . He also had lack of control of how much people were donation you could donate how much or how little you wanted . To anyone it didn’t matter because if you did everyone was thankful.

      Conclusion- Most importantly over everything Tyler Oakley made a huge impact for the trevor project .Little did everyone know he did it again a year later and continues to help the trevor project. Lack of control,Permanence,and  Immediacy impacted and will continue to impact social media. The point I think he wants to get across is that there is always someone to talk to even if it’s just on the phone with someone from the trevor project.You never should hurt yourself because there always someone to talk to regaurdless of you think there is or not; everone is equal no matter what.Tyler Oakley impacted social media and peoples lives in the best way possible.

Faria Sanida

Be Conscious, Think Before You Speak

North Stream

11/2/2016

    The story of Amanda Michelle Todd started like all the other cyber bully stories begin. She was a happy Canadian fifteen year old girl with friends and family until she met this anonymous person on Facebook who flattered and complimented her so much to the point of persuading her to show her topless body to him. It all started when she was in 7th grade and used to video chat with new people over the Internet and met the anonymous person. That person blackmailed her with threats of sharing her topless pictures to her friends. A year later another anonymous sent her the same picture of her and it went viral, causing bullying and teasing to the point she had to change schools. After that she fell into drugs and alcohol and then attempting suicides a few times before she finally succeeded at last. On October 10, 2012 she took her own life. The month before she died, she posted a video on YouTube with the use of flashcards, telling her stories of being abused, bullied and harassed. She described her silent story of how she used self harm, drugs and alcohol into silence the pain she suffered. All Amanda wanted was someone to understand her, listen to her and a trusted friend. Therefore, because of the choices she made, it affected her later in her short life.

    Immediacy, Lack of Control and Permanence had played a major role in the story. Immediacy refers to how fast something gets spread and or post online. If Amanda didn’t share her private photos with the anonymous person than the teasing from the classmates would’ve never started and she would’ve never had to change school constantly. Lack of Control means that when you post something you lose all control of where that post may end up and who that post might end up with. Amanda shouldn’t have shared her photos with the anonymous person because now she doesn’t have any control of that photo once they were sent to someone. Permanence means that something is being permanently posted online. Even though Amanda didn’t share her photos publicly, it was still sent to someone through online which means once you send someone to something they could do anything to it. However, Amanda shouldn't have talked to anyone she met online and trusted them extremely quickly. There is no way you could ever find out that the person you're talking to could actually be them because in reality it could be someone else behind that profile picture. Be careful who you talk to online because no one ever wants to be in a position where Amanda Todd was once in.

https://nobullying.com/amanda-todd-story/

YouTube Video- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThKVodI1Mf8

    A mattress store in San Antonio made a video about their twin tower mattress sale. They were referencing what happened on 9/11. You should never use a horrible moment to make money off of it. You can find it on their FaceBook Feed. She got a lot of hate for that video. Then she was on the news to explain why she made the video. She said it was stupid and a dumb thing to do. Later she apologize and said that she lost some close people too. After her apology, she still get a lot of hate from what she has done.

    How immediacy played a huge row is because the video spread quick and lots of people seen it. It spread so quickly that it went to the news and spread even more. Also a lot of people was quick to judge them and giving them hate.

    How permanence played a row is the video is now stuck in people's heads. Also that video can still to there store reputation. For example that video can make people judge the store before they even go there.

    How Lack Of Control played a row is when she post the video and knew she was getting a lot of hate. She took it down, but people reposted it and she couldn’t take it down. The video was reposted on YouTube. Then on other social media.

My advice is to think before you post something. Think if it's a bad time to post anything. Also to not use something that impacted the U.S in a bad way to make a profit. Those are some advice I have for her.   

Leafyishere makes sarcastic content on Youtube. He often makes videos that offend people, but one video he posted offended even his biggest fans. This video was about a man who wears a fedora and go's around recording himself. In the video that Leafy was reacting to the man whose youtube name is TommyNC2010. In Leafyś video he makes fun of the man's weight appearance style and personality. He often does this in the other videos he makes but in this one he did not realize that the man in the video was autistic. Leafy quickly took down the video and apologized on his twitter. TommyNC2010 made response video. ⬇         

                                                            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24KRxVvQjAo

I think the main aspect that affected Leafyś video was immediacy. Leafy was not thinking when he posted the video and because of this he brought lots of hate on himself. Lack of control was also a big factor in this case because of how much this video blew up, I could not find out how many views Leafyś original video had but the response video that has over 4,000,000 views on Youtube. Permanence does not have too big of an affect on this situation because leafy's apology was accepted. Most people have forgotten about the incident.

There is a real problem with cyber bullying on Youtube that a lot of people think should be stopped. Leafyishere, Pyrocynical and many other Youtubers base their channel on satire content. I like many other people watch Leafy is here and Pyrocynical. I do think that Leafy’s  content is wrong and that some of his videos are a but to harsh but most of them are still funny. On the internet it is nearly impossible not to get bullied or yelled at. I am a frequent user of the internet and i know that something needs to be done about it.

Link to the article: http://www.craveonline.com/design/967689-youtuber-leafyishere-bullying-autistic-man-highlights-major-problem-site

2013 Boston Marathon bombings

           This girl dressed up as a victim of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings before coming to work and tweeted about it to the whole world. Attempting to make a joke out of an event that left dozens injured, some fatally, is a guaranteed way to get yourself kicked out of any job.

           This women’s choice affected individual's life because she made fun of peoples family, when dressing up as a victim of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings. This lady could have really gotten hurt for dressing up that. Immediacy played a role in this because this lady just reminded the people family’s death and how tragic it was. Permanence played a role in this because that post will always be on the internet somewhere and can not be taken down. Lack of control played into the story because this lady thought it was funny to post something like that on the internet, and this is disrespectful to some people.

http://emgn.com/entertainment/12-tweets-that-got-people-fired-from-their-jobs/