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Rumors can happen online or offline and provides the same effect. Tell a group of 4 people in a school a lie can spread to the entire school population in an
by ipaddr 2mo ago
Rumors can happen online or offline and provides the same effect. Tell a group of 4 people in a school a lie can spread to the entire school population in an hour.
Your saying social media and the internet in general makes this effect worse. I agree it can speed up the messaging but it always starts from those same 4 people. And the same people turning on you because of an online post are the same group who will turn there backs on you for an offline rumor.
In both cases its bullying.
On the other hand the same internet and social media allows you to connect with other kids from outside of your local groups enabling a wider social net.
- ElProlactin 2mo agoIf you don't want to acknowledge how social platforms allow this type of abuse to be accelerated, scaled and amplified, directed in ways not possible offline, and recorded permanently (with no possibility of deletion), I can only conclude that you're being intellectually disingenuous.