Im in Visual Communications, Year 3. I'll be doing my FYP this year, it'll be a branding project for a company that helps teach english to countries with english as a second language or less. I'll have to do the logo, some colaterals and other promotional items like brochures.
I started to design when I was in Sec 2-3, starting with simple photography, then moving to websites design, then to print design and others. I had a good build up into design school, coming in with both my portfolio and grades. I really enjoy a good design problem to solve, and I have been spending a good long time building up on basics that I didn't have in secondary school (I was a science student).
My topic is Cyberbullying and its impact on Internet Users. I enjoy reading about different social networking sites online, and basically observing net culture, by means of blogs and forums. I dont usually participate, unless I'm required to, but if its a good topic, I'll put in my two cents worth. I have heard of the different cases where teens are insulted or bullied on the web, and they commit suicide, but I have never really read into the different cases. I thought this topic would be a good opportunity to do so.
In all honesty, I always felt that the victims of cyberbullying deserved it, because I always saw the obnoxious forum member posting online and everyone would flame him because of the things he says. In that sense, I felt it was well deserved, even though it was bullying. As for the cases where the teens commited suicide, I felt that they were being over dramatic and overly emotional. I did not realise that the definition of cyberbullying went up to text messaging a person and harrassing them the moment they go online. This would definitely scar someone and I very readily agree that that is wrong in all accounts.
My starting position on this matter is that cyberbullying is grey, and sometimes "internet justice" needs to be done. I think my stand will change over time, and I hope it does, for a more interesting lesson to learn for me. =)
Here are two websites that I regularly frequent to get good web news, and updates about different interests.
digg.com
is a social news website, where users update links and items online, and other users can vote to digg it (make it more popular) or bury it (making it less popular). Top user stories appear in a little feed on the site itself, and may be covered in the video podcast, Diggnation. Replies on the articles themselves are also dugg or buried, to applaud a comedic response or to trash a response that was uncalled for.
failblog.org
is a comedic website based on "fails" of the events or items around the world. Based on a blog style, the followers can email the site administrators images or videos that show a funny misspelling or a humorous chain of events. The group that own this site also own icanhasacheezburger.com, a site with pictures of cats.
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