Charlotte Dawson blaming her breakdown and suicide attempt on social media trolls. Is this valid? How much is the media/public to blame?
Article Issue: An opinion by Jamila Rizvi remarks this issue as "You can blame the people who wrote those horrible things, you can blame Charlotte for fueling the fire by engaging with them, you can blame Twitter for providing a platform for such things to be said, you can blame the Government for not policing social media better… Hell, you can blame the advent of the Internet itself. What is much harder though and where the conversation absolutely MUST go next, is one step further along the thought process from blame – and that, is responsibility".
My view: And he is absolutely right! Someone/something needs to take responsibility and action is required. One solution that will no doubt be offered up, is that social media and networking sites should have more checks and balances to ensure people are held accountable for what they say.
Article Issue: An opinion by Jamila Rizvi remarks this issue as "You can blame the people who wrote those horrible things, you can blame Charlotte for fueling the fire by engaging with them, you can blame Twitter for providing a platform for such things to be said, you can blame the Government for not policing social media better… Hell, you can blame the advent of the Internet itself. What is much harder though and where the conversation absolutely MUST go next, is one step further along the thought process from blame – and that, is responsibility".
My view: And he is absolutely right! Someone/something needs to take responsibility and action is required. One solution that will no doubt be offered up, is that social media and networking sites should have more checks and balances to ensure people are held accountable for what they say.
Our current generation is fuelled with new technological advances and gadgets and surround more social media hype than ever. With the use of smart phones and iPads, the apps to Facebook and Twitter, are with you all day long - Not just on your computer at home. This constant attachment to social media links only allows for around the clock social media, bullying and abuse. It is not just pertained within the school grounds any longer, it follows you home.
Charlotte Dawsons' most recent debacle over the Twittersphere and contact with what is known as "Twitter Trolls" catalyses this issue further. Although cyber-bullying has been an unfortunate prescence for sometime, and the reason for many upsetting suicide stories, Charlotte Dawson, as a celebrity figure in Australia, has only catalysed this issue further. It has come to the point where it is so prevelant in today's society that something must be done about cyber-bullying.
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