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How online bullying can harm, when the person can hide behind a screen.
SOCIAL MEDIA AND HOW IT MAKES PEOPLE BRAVE
We’ve all done it, haven’t we? Said something on social media that we would never even consider saying to another person’s face. We do it all the time.
Sometimes, this is a good thing, and can be cathartic, but other times, it can be not only negative, but detrimental to our, or another person’s mental health.
We’ve probably all experienced it, the feeling that comes when we read something online about ourselves that isn’t very nice. We see it all the time, particularly when it comes to celebrities.
This seems particularly true when there is an event on, which a number of celebrities are attending. Best dressed lists? Worst dressed lists? I wonder if the person that decides who is going to be on the worst dressed list would actually go up and tell those people to their faces that they were going to be on it.
KEYBOARD WARRIORS
The internet (and while I’m not knocking it, because it isn’t the internet that is bad, but the way that some of us use it), has spawned an entire generation of keyboard warriors, all intent to have their say on this issue, or that.
