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41 Percent of Adults In the US Have Been Harassed Online, Says Pew Study (techcrunch.com)
According to a new Pew Research Center study, 41 percent of adults said they have experienced harassment online, and 66 percent of people said they've seen it happen to others. What's the most common form of online harassment? According to the study, it's offensive name-calling. TechCrunch reports: It's worth noting that while men are slightly more likely than women to be harassed online (44 percent versus 37 percent), women are more likely to be sexually harassed online. For example, 53 percent of women surveyed reported receiving explicit images they did not request. Unsurprisingly, social media is where people are most likely to experience online harassment, with 58 percent of those harassed saying the most recent incident happened on a social media platform. Also unsurprising is the fact that more than half of people harassed don't know the person harassing them. Pew also explored "emergent" forms of online harassment, like doxing (posting someone's personal information online without consent), trolling (intentionally trying to provoke or upset someone), hacking (illegally accessing someone's accounts) and swatting (when you call 911 for a fake emergency and have the police show up at that person's house). "While many Americans are not aware of these behaviors, they have all been used to escalate abuse online," the report states.
Internet tough guy trolls find out what's real when they wake up in county to a rapo pushing their shit in.
The misinformation spewed by fools like you is extremely tired and more than slightly pathetic.
I've spent time in a bunch of jails and a few prisons too. Rape is _extremely_ rare. I never once witnessed anyone being threatened with rape. Nor did I ever meet anyone who had been a victim of such things, nor did I ever hear anyone else talk about how it had happened. I did however witness people who were willing to engage in homosexual acts get ready to engage in said acts. No, I didn't see them fuck etc. because I don't want or need to see that shit, so I left the area and gave the lovebirds their privacy.
Real life is not like the movies ( surprise ! ).
If you go into jail or prison and act like a man, **always show respect for others**, and mind your own business, there's a very high probability that you will never even be in a fight, much less be the target of a rapist. I speak from close to ten years' experience, which is as real as it gets.
Next time, try only speaking of that which you actually know, and don't pretend to know about things you have never experienced.
SJW is just your snide name-calling.
SJW is a descriptive term that applies to people who engage in certain behaviors and who tend toward a certain mindset. The term is most assuredly apropos in this case, and your cretinistic mouth-breather whining doesn't change that.
Your definition of journalist is so vague it is comical. So a person who manages to sell articles to some website is a journalist ? I reckon you'd call a person who used a needle to remove a splinter a surgeon.
The notion of "harassment" has got very blurry lately...
Back in my days, I was the little big guy in the school yard. I had to deal with insults, punches in the belly and snowballs in the face. Guess what? The school director did absolutely nothing. I had to learn to defend myself. My grandfather taught me how to fight, and after a few lessons and practice, that's what I did.
Never did I complain to my mother, it would have been cowardice.
After a few good fights where I showed I would not let others make fun of me, they left me alone, and I made some good friends for the rest of high school. With all those millenials pouring in, defended by their parents and having never felt what it's like to be truly harassed, the notion of harassment has got down to almost considering unfriending someone on Facebook as harassment.
I am happy to be born in the early 80's, I may be part of the last generation of real men that had to physically defend themselves to be respected, just as the nature gave us in our genes. Not being defended by our parents or going to the police for a slight schoolyard fight.
"We're really in a pussy generation. Everybody's walking on eggshells. We see people accusing people of being racist and all kinds of stuff. When I did Gran Torino (2008), even my associate said, "This is a really good script, but it's politically incorrect." And I said, "Good. Let me read it tonight." The next morning, I came in and I threw it on his desk and I said, "We're starting this immediately.”
- Clint Eastwood
Why take internet and platforms on it such as social media so seriously ?...There's only one life that matters, and it's called Real Life.
The internet is part of reality. The internet is real life.
Social media is a serious medium of social interaction. People well-established in their careers and already married can possibly ignore it, but for anyone younger you need to have a social media presence to get a job and have good romantic prospects.
Social media is how people network. Social media is how people build and retain contacts. Social media is how people get jobs. HR people have been saying for years that not having a Facebook account is a mark against you. That story is from 2012. The importance of social media has only gone up since then.
Although the majority of people that use linkedin exclusively for their job searches do not come up successful, the MO for hiring managers makes it so that if you are not on linkedin, you are invisible. People find eachother on social networks. They might not use those platforms for contact or hiring decisions, but if you don't have a presence at all, your odds of being hired tanks very hard.
And these points don't even begin to cover the social pariah you make yourself out to be if you do not participate. Many people that do not have a Facebook account have stories of missing out on family news, social experiences, invites to events, and more. Your dating options dwindle down to less than your tiny circle of contacts if you are not participating. What do potential partners do before they willingly go on a date? Check a person's profiles and see if they are creepers, interesting, or have unnecessary drama in their lives.
Why take internet and platforms on it so seriously? Because they are real life. Society moves on. Once you could get by without a telephone. For many years you could get by without internet. For a few years social media was no big deal, something teenagers foolishly post their entire lives to. Today, the internet and social media is a big part of your identity, your career, your dating prospects; your reputation in the world exists online.
Technology improves and changes. Society changes too.