Blog Week 8

Recently with the development of social media sites and the growth in their usage a main issue that has risen from it is cyber bullying. A lot of teens these days are using sites like Twitter to attack other people and reveal personal things about them in order to embarrass them. This year I’ve seen on Twitter numerous fight between friends about stuff that should have been kept private and dealt with in not such a public manner. Girls will either directly “tag” someone in their tweet in order to hurt them or tweet about them indirectly which is called “sub-tweeting”.  Although people think that they are being clever when sub tweeting it usually isn’t that hard to figure out whom the person is generally tweeting about. This year because of the multiple twitter fights between girls, sororities have started to implement a social media contract, which they all have to sign and agree to the terms. This is an approach to stop the consistent Twitter drama and because it doesn’t make the girls or their organization look good. Approaches like a social media contract is something that most organizations have had to develop due to some of the controversy about content on people’s individual social media pages.