This is probably why stalking cases are so hard to bring to court. It technically doesn't harm the victim when a stalker follows them around, and it also doesn't technically harm a victim when a stalker views their profile. It still doesn't do anything if the victim blocks the stalker, and the stalker creates new profiles to continue viewing the victim's socials. But it's the fear of what MIGHT happen and how far the stalker is willing to go, but that's unfortunately really hard to argue for in court, or even police reports, since nothing has actually happened yet. It's disappointing that something has to happen that harms the victim in order for anything to get done, and even that isn't guaranteed proper justice

I think putting public pressure on someone, a group, or organization can be helpful when it feels like justice is being violated. However, full-on crowd harassment or any other form of harassment doesn't feel right, mainly because violence usually leads to more violence. That's why people often encourage peaceful protests or a non-violent protest over ones that encourage violence or threats because it's often taken better.

I feel like crowdsourcing can also be harmful when it comes to legal proceedings. It's easy for people to find evidence online and spread it publicly as a way to help the court findings, and I may be wrong, but I think that may only leads to the evidence being concluded as inadmissible because it was found externally.

This is extremely prominent in TikTok. I feel like people are always making something up and spreading it around, and because so many people are covering it, it seems believable. Even the TikTok searches start to cater toward the rumor by highlighting searches that other people are making about the rumor. This is why I don't rely on information I find out about on TikTok, and instead research it myself by reading a few articles I find on Google to generate my own conclusion.

The most I really do is report accounts for impersonation because they're impersonating someone I know. It's either that a new account has been made impersonating a friend or acquaintance of mine and they've followed me, or the original account was hacked and I find out because they message me asking for "help." Other times that I've reported someone was for hateful behavior thats beyond regular hate that people get, such as hateful comments followed with racial slurs.

In a way, I feel like this doesn't hold up in most cases. Of course, social media platforms have their functionalities to prevent trolling and harassment, but there are thousands of cases (or more) where their users are genuinely in danger or their safety is compromised in some sort of way, and the companies don't do anything productive to help. If anything, their actions may be more beneficial toward the perpetrators rather than the victims. For example, in stalking cases for content creators (especially big content creators), little is done on the company's end to actually ensure safety and justice for the creators. Twitch has a handful of occasions (that I know of) where their creators were attacked by their stalkers during Twitchcon, and hardly anything was done to arrest the attacker or permanently ban the attacker from their platform.

I feel like social media has kind of helped me get away from whats happening in my reality by allowing me to just sit and watch a few short videos. It frees me from a sense of responsibility and gives me a break from whatever I'm thinking about in general. However, using social media in general makes me feel lazy and guilty about how I'm spending my time. There are a lot of things I could be focusing my energy on to relax, and social media just doesn't seem like the best one.

It's honestly quite difficult trying to find a way to automate detection. Words often overlap in contexts, and I feel like people often use these trigger words in both positive and negative ways. For example, people may make videos/posts using the word "suicide" as a way to discourage bullying, promote seeking help in forms of support lines or therapy, or keeping someone's story alive. On the other hand, people may make videos or posts also using "suicide" to encourage self-loathing or techniques to harm yourself/commit suicide. It's a double-edged sword that ends up affecting both sides no matter what the intentions are. Additionally, those who try to bypass the limitations to create positive videos are giving the other party (negative) another way to talk about it freely.

This is actually really funny because this is exactly what was happening when I was in middle school. There were always pictures that had some sort of "repost this for good luck" or "share this with someone else or you'll get bad luck." I think this is still pretty prominent on platforms that mostly host older users because I still see my aunts and uncles reposting things like that on Facebook.

I looked at Facebook for this activity and funnily enough, Facebook doesn't really have a lot of options for accessibility other than display options (which are a whole option of 2). One includes dark mode, which I'm assuming is for those with eye sensitivities and for those in darker settings. The other option is for notification timing which automates when notifications are dismissed, which I have no real idea of who this might be actually useful for other than personal preference.

The first thing that came to mind would be the collection of specific location (such as I.P. addresses and specific addresses where the device is being used). While this may help in some cases (there's a case I know of where police found the location of an online bully for severe bullying and threats through pinging their IP address and pinpointing a specific house address.), there are cases currently where specific location pinging is used by ICE to track people down using their devices. It's something that can be used or abused.

I was unable to see what Google thinks of me because apparently I have my personalized ads turned off alongside any data collection option other than my youtube activity. Despite that, I still feel like I get quite a few ads that are aligned with my interests, which make me question whether or not enabling personalized ads and data collection really matters for whether or not your data is being collected (I'm sure it doesn't).

I think this is a difficult question to answer purely because every person (or every troller) has a different motive and different reactions motivate them more. While ignoring trolls can be useful in some cases, it won't work on every case (or every troller) as explained by Film Critics Hulk. It can lead to dangerous levels of behavior like stalking, threatening, confronting, etc. On the other hand, engaging could still give them power, but it might take it away too. For example, if a rumor is being spread just for the fun of it, a simple shut down like "Not true" without further engagement can be effective. Privating your account can also be an option of protecting yourself from outside engagement, but it also fuels trollers into thinking they've won, which will ultimately encourage them to continue (especially if the intention of their trolling was to kick someone off their platform or off the internet). Kicking trolls off the platform can also be effective, but it won't stop all of them because they can always find ways to create another account, that's why stalking can be hard to track or avoid. Overall, it's a tough situation and depends on the situation.

I think this still occurs in settings like video games. For example, tricking a new player into doing something that every experienced player knows doesn't work or negatively impacts the new player in some way. I see this most often when streamers are trying out a new game (typically well-known and the streamer is just late to playing it, like minecraft), where they suggest things they know are trolls. Something that comes to mind would be like playing a bed in the nether for Minecraft.

Although it wasn't explicitly explained, the fact that 4chan was probably created because some 15 year old kid wanted less regulations when their platform already had a forum for "Anime Death Tentacle Rape Whorehouse" is already quite disturbing. But the fact that someone found 4chan to be TOO restrictive and made something with even WORSE regulation is truly disappointing. It gives too much space for people to feel comfortable saying dangerous things (such as ideology from mass shooters) and being encouraged/enabled for it.

This code looks like it would be used to notify people when others have liked their posts. Maybe not exactly how that's achieved but the results kind of reminded me of those notifications, and when you're someone who has a lot of active followers and get a lot of likes, I would imagine this code would make it easier to make notifications at a larger scale.

Is it necessary to have a character limit for personal information like this? I feel like in a way, that can be a little demeaning for those with longer last names, especially because I feel like some ethnic groups have names that might go over the character limit.

This definitely opened my perspective on data constraints. In the reflection before, I figured that the best way to store information for social media would be through pre-set categories (for things like relationship status, address, etc), but there are definitely important details that can be hard to simplify and cut out (though, I'm sure no one needs additional details on someone's relationship status). I guess that's why there are some instances where you're able to put down a permanent address and a temporary address for those who are only residing somewhere for a short-term opportunity.

This actually got me. When I watched the first video and it was "revealed" that the creator was "not real," I fully believed it because I've definitely been tricked by AI videos before. After watching the second video by Professor Casey Fiesler, I was genuinely shocked, both because I fell for it so fast and because I felt double tricked. I might've believed it as fast as I did because I've never seen any of Kurt Skelton's videos before, so it was easy for me to imagine that he might've just been curated by another creator. Maybe had I seen that creator's videos prior to that video, I would've been more skeptical since I would've seen a longer history of the creator and his personality. Definitely a shocker to me either way though!

Not really. I think in a lot of controversial cases involving bot behavior are often not excused because at the end of the day, someone programmed it. Maybe it's because I don't know exactly how bots work, but I feel like a bot's actions are limited to what its programmer allows it to do, so if a bot is able to do something (such as post racist comments, as explained in an earlier section of this chapter), then something in its code allowed it to process racist information and express it. In the case from earlier this chapter, it probably should've been considered that if the bot is using other twitter users' tweets toward the company and that information is public, there probably should've been safeguards to detect racial remarks and block it from the bot's vocabulary and processing. It could be argued that that scenario slipped from their minds, but I think that anything that will be released to the public should be tested and be given feedback from a smaller community before released to the mass public. Surely someone would've thought that the bot could pick up racist tweets.

I feel like this statement in itself is a little contradictory to what this entire chapter is about. We've learned about multiple different kinds of ethical frameworks there are, which in turn means that we've learned that what might be morally right and wrong differs for everyone. Nihilism in itself rejects the existence of morally good conclusions, so how can we say that just because we use an ethical framework to look at a situation, doesn't mean we will come out with a morally good conclusion, when everyone's definition of a "morally good conclusion" differs? I initially agreed with the statement, but upon further processing, I think it'd be much harder to firmly decide a situation to be a morally bad conclusion since the opinion can fluctuate depending on who you ask and where. It doesn't make much of a difference to consider someone's ethical framework if it differs from our own if we're still going to make a definitive conclusion that their situation is morally bad from our own framework.

In contrast to how people are saying "social media isn't real life," I think that people tend to be a more exaggerated version of themselves when engaging online. I think this might be because they don't feel an immediate consequence for poor or extreme behavior alongside the fact that it's very easy to just say whatever you want and click post. It's easy to post impulsive thoughts and not think about how others would react, especially when you're not physically seeing any effects in your real life. So in a way, I think that social media is a part of our real life, but in a much more exaggerated way now that social pressure is generally lightened.

Once we're in a certain headspace (especially if it's related to something we're really excited about), we can overlook even the simplest things. However, it should be our responsibility to seek outside perspectives and test other reactions to our inventions/creations in order to gain new perspectives and make sure that our products are ready for introduction. I think this might have been the issue that occurred when the people Kumail talked with didn't have answers to his questions. They didn't think to seek feedback on their new products which led to a narrow concept.