Cyberbullying involves bullying that occurs online or through digital technology. It can include posting negative pictures, videos, or words about someone without their consent. The "Amalayer Girl" incident from 2012 showed how quickly cyberbullying can spread on social media. A video went viral showing a woman shouting at an LRT guard. She became mocked online and in memes. This spread negative comments and judgments about her without understanding the full context. It's important to use social media responsibly and ensure others can freely express themselves without harm.
Cyberbullying involves bullying that occurs online or through digital technology. It can include posting negative pictures, videos, or words about someone without their consent. The "Amalayer Girl" incident from 2012 showed how quickly cyberbullying can spread on social media. A video went viral showing a woman shouting at an LRT guard. She became mocked online and in memes. This spread negative comments and judgments about her without understanding the full context. It's important to use social media responsibly and ensure others can freely express themselves without harm.
Cyberbullying involves bullying that occurs online or through digital technology. It can include posting negative pictures, videos, or words about someone without their consent. The "Amalayer Girl" incident from 2012 showed how quickly cyberbullying can spread on social media. A video went viral showing a woman shouting at an LRT guard. She became mocked online and in memes. This spread negative comments and judgments about her without understanding the full context. It's important to use social media responsibly and ensure others can freely express themselves without harm.
What is Cyberbullying? this is bullying that takes place in new digital technology or different platforms that are accessible because of the modern world. it includes sending and posting and showing a negative picture video or word against someone or which includes someone. It usually occurs on the following platforms:
Multimedia Sharing Social Media Messaging Platforms
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#AMALAYER November 2012, a local commuter named Paulo Salvosa went viral because of a video which showed how she shouted foul words to a lady guard at the LRT station.
She was dubbed as the Amalyer Girl for reiterrating the
sentence “so you're telling me I'm a liar?” which was used as a mockery for a long period of time here in the Philippines. #AMALAYER Paula has been a victim of cyberbullying as she was used as a pawn for memes and her video was made fun of by people producing parody versions. This incident showed the Philippines how powerful social media can be and how it can greatly affect a person. Case Breakdown Aside from being mocked and used for memes, this incident is proved to be an example of Cyberbullying since a massive amount of people who watched the video online commented negative and threatening thoughts and opinions about Paulo's acts and judged her immediately without even asking her reason for doing such action towards the lady guard. Also, the video was taken without the consent of the persons involved. Understand and Prevent "With the various uses and advantages provided by the social media, a person must be responsible with his use of the use of social media. He must make good use of his very right to freely express himself responsibly while ensuring that others enjoy the same freedom.” (Varsitarian) References stopbullying.gov https://news.abscbn.com/lifestyle/06/26/1/how-cyberbullying- changed-amalayer-girl https://www.gmanetwork.com/news/news/metro/282717/amalay er-girl-seeks-face-to-face-with-lrt-guard/story/ http://varsitarian.net/opinion/20121109/amalayer_a_victim_of_cyb er_bullying