The Flip Side of Internet Fame

David Bouvier
ENGL 0250-154
H. Susi
9/26/11
" The Flip Side of Internet Fame"
The story "The Flip Side of Internet Fame" was written by Jessica Bennett. The whole main idea of this story was about this one particular story about one kid named Ghyslain Raza. He was a teenager who loved star wars and one day he decided to film him self acting out a fight scene from "star wars" using a make shift light saber. After a whole year of the copy of the film sat on the shelf at his school a student came across this film. the student posted this film online naming it "Star Wars Kid". Jessica Bennett tells you about the story in great detail and also tells you a few other interesting stories about a few kids that also suffer from bulling.
Bennett Explains how much of an impact a viral video can make on a person. In this day and age having the advanced technology having camera phones and cameras on iPods, you cannot hide from pictures. You are always being filmed no matter where or what you are doing. This causes a huge problem in society today. This began bulling on the internet, abusing the internet to use it as a gate way to anonymously post, type and say what you want. Bulling was always a problem but not as big of a problem as it is today with all the devises kids can use to access the internet. Kids will use texting and picture mail, send explicit pictures to friends and all can be used as black mail towards someone else.
I have seen and encountered bulling a few times. I have been around bulling while my close friends have been the abusers and every time i have saw it happen i would tell them to stop immediately. I do not approve of bulling at all unless some one deserves it, and even in that case it is still sad to watch how big of an impact a bully will make on even the strongest minded person. Being bullied will turn any person into a weak person over time. When it happens again and again a kid will not know what to do and may harm them selfs. I will put my foot down if i see bulling no matter who it is because i know that if some one gets bullied enough it can ruin their lives.
Anyone who is a bully should just stop and think about what they are doing. put them self inside the victims place and see how they would like it. I have personally been the bully before and i knew it was wrong so i stopped and kind of turned around and walked away. when your in the heat of the moment and your with your friends you don't act like your self and definitely do not care about other peoples feelings. Acting towards the bully and stoping them will be the right thing to do. This will make you feel good about your self and people will see what you are doing and maybe grow feelings for people and do the same. If its in school or out side of school people will watch the good deids you are doing and helping people and will have lots of respect for you and may treat you differently.
The new generation is where a lot more problems have started because of the internet and all of the new electronics that are out today. all of these devises used as the gate way of interacting with people through the cyber world and not being face to face will make kids act more confident and say things that they would never to someones face. Any type of bullying is not healthy over time this act towards someone will make them harm them selfs physically. A lot of times bullying is the cause of suicide if not very bad injuries result of bullying. The moral is that you should treat other the way you want to be treated. If everyone is equally there would be no problems but since no two people are equal it causes problems that will never stop but definitely can be help and prevented.