Draft:Hidden On the Internet

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Dating apps, websites, and services invite people to put the "best" version of themselves into the dating world. This generally requires answering questions about themselves, their interests, hobbies, employment, personal details regarding their age, income, education and so on. One, and possibly the most important necessity of having a dating profile in the picture. With the technology that we have in our cell phones, apps, and editing abilities; there is endless possibilities for creating the perfect online dating picture and the ability to produce and post a picture that is without flaws, imperfections, and represents the best possible version of your attractiveness. At some point, although the picture is of them, it is enhanced and the best edited and tweaked version of themselves, they are hiding behind an edited, enhanced, photographic version of themselves.[1][2][3][4]

Social media allows for us to all sanitize and polish what our family and friends see. This works with what or how we post information about our lives and how we react to information we read. Humans all believe that they are better humans than they really are.  We now view ourselves through the filter of how wonderful we are and on Social media we are at the same time telling people who we think we are and searching for validation that we are right. When presented with a mirror of ourselves without the Social media filter in place we are repelled. We believe that "liking" is the same ad contributing. We grandstand and get on a soap box online but would never actually dispel the advice, judgments, or racism that we so freely do from the safety of our glowing device.[5][6][7][8]

YouTube, the Holy Grail for those that want to be rich and famous as fast as possible. With very little investment can create a persona for their YouTube channel, and portray themselves as anything they want, with zero credentials. Although, the responsibility for critical thinking is on the person watching the video, the very fact that someone has a YouTube channel leads itself to being credible. There is very little risk of presenting yourself as an expert and it is more important to produce video's, quantity over quality, get the subscribers, the money from ad revenue and keep it going as long as you can before the next YouTube Creator comes along and knocks you out of your place. Many often stop being a persona and start being a commercial. [9][10]

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Beyond the quest for fame and fortune through being a YouTube creator, or misleading ego driven Facebook posts or Tinder profiles the most unsettling is cyber bullying. This is arguably the most dangerous and harmful practice employed by those that want to inflict the most harm as possible from the safety and at times the anonymity of their own homes. Cyber bullying is now pervasive in our culture. Very young children are well connected to the internet through a variety of apps, school websites, their home computers and their cell phones. There is no safe place for a child that is being bullied, access to them is 24/7.  Children have been driven to self harming, and to suicide from being cyber bullied. Many times their parents are unaware that their children are being cyber bullied and are shocked to find the extent that their children are in pain. Cyber bullying is relentless for the victim, and for the Bully, the level of detachment from bullying through a digital platform creates a false belief that it is harmless.[11][12][13][14][15][16]

References[edit]

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  4. ^ Atasoy, Ozgun. "You Are Less Beautiful Than You Think". Scientific American. Retrieved 2018-10-08.
  5. ^ "Sorry, But Your Facebook Friends Don't Care About You". PCMAG. Retrieved 2018-10-08.
  6. ^ Proud, Alex (2016-06-29). "Facebook brings out the worst in people. Here's nine reasons why it's ruining the internet". The Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 2018-10-08.
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  9. ^ Hern, Alex (2018-07-19). "FamilyOFive: YouTube bans 'pranksters' after child abuse conviction". the Guardian. Retrieved 2018-10-08.
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  11. ^ "Young victims of cyberbullying twice as likely to attempt suicide and self-harm, study finds". ScienceDaily. Retrieved 2018-11-18.
  12. ^ Campbell, Marilyn; Bauman, Sheri (2018-01-01). Cyberbullying: Definition, consequences, prevalence. Reducing Cyberbullying in Schools. pp. 3–16. doi:10.1016/B978-0-12-811423-0.00001-8. ISBN 9780128114230.
  13. ^ "Bullying Statistics". Retrieved 2018-11-18.
  14. ^ "Q&A: How and why we studied teens and cyberbullying". Pew Research Center. Retrieved 2018-11-18.
  15. ^ "Cyberbullying Research Center - How to Identify, Prevent, and Respond". Cyberbullying Research Center. Retrieved 2018-11-18.
  16. ^ "A Disturbing New Trend Involves Teens Cyberbullying Themselves". Tonic. 2017-11-22. Retrieved 2018-11-18.