Question 4
Online
etiquettes it is the way one should behave whenever they use the online wold.
In the world
of internet everyone has a right as well as their responsibilities. Everyone
needs to behave themselves each time they interact with people online, for
example when you comment on someone’s photo or status on Facebook, tweeter,
Instagram, and all other social media sites.
This
a is why people online like to be offended so much
After an online backlash against Stephen Fry,
an expert explains online outrage.
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SUNDAY NIGHT Stephen Fry hosted the BAFTA awards in London.
Dotted in among the expected witticisms from
the avuncular host was a joke about Jenny Beavan, the winner of the costume
design award, who he said looked like a bag lady.
This was enough to send Twitter into
overdrive.
People took aim at Fry for insulting Beavan,
and accused him of misogyny.
One tweeter said that the host had “gone down
in a lot of people’s estimations” and may even have lost him his status as a
national treasure.
Fry responded to this by writing “Christ, I
fucking hope so” and subsequently tweeted a picture of himself and Beavan with
the caption ‘Jenny Baglady Beavan and Stephen Outrageous Misogynist Swine Fry
at the #EEBAFTAs after party’.
The
picture that Fry tweeted outSource: Twitter
Still – that didn’t stop Twitter users coming
out in force against him, with Fry deleting his account.
Speaking
to TheJounal.ie, clinical psychologist and President of the
Psychological Society of Ireland Paul D’Alton explains the process of “I tweet
therefore I am” comes down to two things.
“Genetically our brains are predisposed to
seek out social contact,” D’Alton explains, “We exist and we survive when we
have social contact.
That’s a lot of what is going on.
“There’s
a thing call negative intimacy. That even when contact is negative and
insulting, it is still something people go after.”
This may explain why the Twitter users continued
to go after Fry even after he posted the picture with Beavan.
The deeply superficial world of social media doesn’t satisfy us,
and sometime we’ll go back for more and more even when it’s insulting.
The
second thing is something known as the the the ‘Proximity Effect’, which was
developed by psychologist Stanley Milgram in the 1960s.
“He did these obedience experiments,” D’Alton
explains, “And what he discovered was that the closer you are to someone, the
less likely you are to punish them.”
And, chances are, we can expect more incidents
like this in the future.
“This is a huge area of psychology now,”
D’Alton went on, “You have a whole generation of natives now who are born into
the world of social media. There are huge psychological implications that we
don’t quite understand at this point.
I think that people are right to be concerned.
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