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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.
Have been harassed in real life.
Help Help, I'm being oppressed!
100% of Slashdotters have been harassed online. And if you're reading Slashdot, and you haven't been harassed, you're a stupid piece of shit.
There. It's back at 100%.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
I'm on internet since 1998 roughly. I'm 32 now... so started pretty young. I also spend 10+ hours on the computer per day, since 2001), so one can say internet is pretty important thing in my life, more so to me than to these that got _harassed_ probably.
First thing, most people are just asking for it. They subconsciously dig themselves into these holes, like they are unknowingly addicted to drama. It's like ghost stories.. the only people that seem to see ghosts are those people that believe in ghosts.
Furthermore, "Cyber" bullying ? Seriously ? Bullying is if i slap the shit out of you, yell at you, and take your lunch money, and I REPEAT it every day. That's bullying.
Somebody wrote a nasty comment on your facebook ? Are you kidding me ? Maybe I have this attitude because I "grew up" on IRC in early 2000s where these "abuses" were actually just a normal day, and I seen real bullying in the same time at school, but anything that happens on internet is totally insignificant, it's bordering make-believe, especially if you connect to internet with that intent, and it's not that hard people. Why take internet and platforms on it such as social media so seriously ?
Maybe this is happening because people choose to upload their lives on retarded platforms like facebook, maybe not, either way... you have control over it all, so all you doing calling this bullying is marginalizing real bullying. There's only one life that matters, and it's called Real Life.
I'm sure there are hordes of geeks that will attack me for saying cyber is make believe.. but that's just uh... like, your opinion man.
And screw them too.
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I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say you might be a nerd.
The last several years I've been the only nerd moving in non-nerd circles, and apparently people like that don't get the lifetime of putdowns that someone like me just assumes are normal for everyone. I've seen major freakouts that ended with social sanctions against the "abuser" for stuff I wouldn't even notice.
The interesting part for me is that these victims have the social power to fight back. There *is* something they can do, if they cry the right things the rest of the social circle flocks to their defense, so they never had to learn to grow a thick skin like you and I. Now they're in an environment where their social power doesn't work, and it's freaking them out. We're all nerds on the internet, and they never had to learn how to live with it.
Fuck all of you.
41% of adults have been harassed online. The other 59% haven't visited Slashdot yet.
"That's the way to do it" - Punch
If you read the actual survey it has categories like "physically threatened", "stalked" and "sexually harassed".
Same that the summary links to some clickbaity reporting rather than the actual study. It's not the best study, but it's not measuring how often people were told they are wrong.
const int one = 65536; (Silvermoon, Texture.cs)
SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
Oh, so you are saying I should have added other non-harassment items to my list?
No. If you could get past your assumption that everyone who disagrees with you is an "SJW" you might see a more reasonable interpretation, e.g. that the study is looking at a whole range of behaviours, some of which are quite serious and might even be illegal. Focusing on name calling and assuming that the report is trying to define harassment (it isn't) is silly.
Conflating terms is marxist tool
LOL, but yes, conflating a survey on frequency of incidents with an attempt to define harassment is deliberate misrepresentation, a common tactic in internet debates.
const int one = 65536; (Silvermoon, Texture.cs)
SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC