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William Brady

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            These past couple weeks have been pretty interesting in class. We have been talking a lot about CMC Groups vs. Face-to-face Group communication. We have discovered many important advantages for both of these two groups. CMC communication is great when you need to get a task done quickly. Normally group members work sufficiently and quickly with less messing around. With face-to-face communication groups tend to get distracted more easily. With everyone involved and talking it is hard to have everyone to agree one which answer is best. Face-to-face is better though when it comes to reading peoples verbal cues. With CMC, you only get words, and those words end up meaning more then they would if you said them F-2-F. Overall, both of these groups have disadvantages and advantages.

            Another major topic we talked about was cyber bulling. We had the opportunity to look into a few cyber bulling cases in class. One that really caught my attention was when the mother pretended to be a girl in her school in order to find out what she was saying about her daughter. The mother ended up cursing off the girl and telling her that the world would be a better place without her. In my opinion that is completely unacceptable. The little girl should not have been saying those things about the other little girl, but the mother had no right in acting the way she did. She should have handled the situation more professionally, for example calling the school and letting know that bullying is going on, or calling the child’s parents and informing them how their daughter is behaving. It makes me sick to my stomach to hear about cases of cyber bullying. I do think that there needs to be a law against cyber bullying, but I also do understand that it is extremely hard make one when cyber bullying is such a broad topic. We as a society need to figure out how we can solve this issue. I think one way to fix this problem is to make cyber bullying into different types. I am not truly sure how to categorize cyber bullying into different types but any cyber bulling that is directly related to death should be the highest. From there we can look at how old the cyber bully is, and see how they were teasing them. But that again is too broad of a category. Because we could have a 30-year-old cause a 13 year old to kill themselves, but we could also have a 13 year old cause a 30 year old to kill themselves. It is just way to hard to make a correct decision on whether or not what they did was wrong. The lawyer for the 13 year old would fight that the child did not understand what they were doing. And the 30 year old could fight back saying they said they were older. There is really no winner or looser when it comes to cyber bullying. Someone may feel better for a couple minutes, but eventually where does it lead too? As a society we need to come together and stop cyber bullying.