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Pornography - a lot of rapists and sexual offenders start off with pornography
4. cyber bullying - social networks or blogs flaming or flaming through gaming
5. leaking personal information accidentally through social networks
Social hacking describes the act of attempting to manipulate outcomes of social behaviour
through orchestrated actions. The general function of social hacking is to gain access to
restricted information or to a physical space without proper permission. Most often, social
hacking attacks are achieved by impersonating an individual or group who is directly or indirectly
known to the victims or by representing an individual or group in a position of authority.[1] This is
done through pre-meditated research and planning to gain victims confidence. Social hackers
take great measures to present overtones of familiarity and trustworthiness to elicit confidential
or personal information.[2] Social hacking is most commonly associated as a component of social
engineering.
Although the practice involves exercising control over human behaviour rather than computers,
the term "social hacking" is also used in reference to online behaviour and increasingly, social
media activity. The technique can be used in multiple ways that affect public perception and
conversely, increase public awareness of social hacking activity. However, while awareness
helps reduce the volume of hacks being carried out, technology has allowed for attack tools to
become more sophisticated.

First, friends, ex-friends and acquaintances can hack into an account and
post damaging and embarrassing information.
Teens also are likely targets for phishing attacks, where the bad guys trick
the victim into clicking on a link that installs malware or uses your
Facebook account to then spam your contacts. Criminal types often send
invitations to view a funny or risque video. An invitation might even suggest
that the supposedly hilarious video features your teen.
6. false information - websites that give wrong information
Disinformation is intentionally false or inaccurate information that is spread deliberately. It is an
act of deception and false statements to convince someone of untruth. Disinformation should not
be confused with misinformation, information that is unintentionally false.

7. involvement in criminal acts, such as piracy

What is Cyberbullying
Cyberbullying is bullying that takes place using electronic technology. Electronic technology includes
devices and equipment such as cell phones, computers, and tablets as well as communication tools
including social media sites, text messages, chat, and websites.
Examples of cyberbullying include mean text messages or emails, rumors sent by email or posted on social
networking sites, and embarrassing pictures, videos, websites, or fake profiles.

Why Cyberbullying is Different

Effects of Cyberbullying
Frequency of Cyberbullying

Why Cyberbullying is Different

Kids who are being cyberbullied are often bullied in person as well. Additionally, kids who are cyberbullied
have a harder time getting away from the behavior.

Cyberbullying can happen 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and reach a kid even when he or she is
alone. It can happen any time of the day or night.
Cyberbullying messages and images can be posted anonymously and distributed quickly to a very
wide audience. It can be difficult and sometimes impossible to trace the source.
Deleting inappropriate or harassing messages, texts, and pictures is extremely difficult after they
have been posted or sent.

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Effects of Cyberbullying
Cell phones and computers themselves are not to blame for cyberbullying. Social media sites can be used
for positive activities, like connecting kids with friends and family, helping students with school, and for
entertainment. But these tools can also be used to hurt other people. Whether done in person or through
technology, the effects of bullying are similar.
Kids who are cyberbullied are more likely to:

Use alcohol and drugs

Skip school
Experience in-person bullying
Be unwilling to attend school
Receive poor grades
Have lower self-esteem
Have more health problems

Pornography (often abbreviated as "porn" or "porno" in informal usage) is the portrayal

of sexual subject matter for the purpose of sexual arousal. Pornography may be presented in a
variety of media, including books, magazines, postcards, photographs, sculpture, drawing,
painting, animation, sound recording, film, video, and video games. The term applies to the
depiction of the act rather than the act itself, and so does not include live exhibitions like sex
shows and striptease. The primary subjects of pornographic depictions are pornographic models,
who pose for still photographs, and pornographic actors or porn stars, who perform
in pornographic films. If dramatic skills are not involved, a performer in a porn film may also be
called a model.

Pornography addiction is a purported[12] behavioral addiction characterized by compulsive,

repeated use of pornographic material until it causes serious negative consequences to one's
physical, mental, social, and/or financial well-being.[13][14] There is no diagnosis of
pornography addiction in the current Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
(the DSM-5).[12] The DSM-5 considers such diagnosis and rejects it because "there is
insufficient peer-reviewed evidence to establish the diagnostic criteria and course
descriptions needed to identify these behaviors as mental disorders."[12]
A 2014 review found that high-frequency use of visual sexual stimuli "fails to meet standards
of addiction", e.g. because it can reduce unhealthy behaviors.[15] Scientists do, however, state
that excessive pornography viewing can be unhealthy if it becomes problematic for an
individual due to personal or social reasons, including excessive time spent viewing
pornography instead of interacting with others. Individuals may report depression, social
isolation, career loss, decreased productivity, or financial consequences as a result of their
excessive Internet pornography viewing impeding on their social life.[16]

The quality of information online cannot always be relied upon

Point
The Internet has become a major source of information for many people. However, online
information has usually not gone through the same checks as newspaper articles, books or
factual television programming. There is a higher risk that some of the facts or quotations
from a particular source in an article are false. Whereas newspapers might lose customers if
people find out they have been selling lies, a blog and other online content can be easily
created and uploaded as well as just as quickly being deleted. If people base their opinions on
the information they find online, they could well be basing their opinion on false information.
Take for example the 2006 conspiracy film Loose Change which has had millions of views. A
report from the thinktank Demos in a report titled Truth, Lies and the Internet: A Report into
Young Peoples Digital Fluency[1] state that the film contains a ...litnay of errors,
misattributions, vague insinuations, subtle misquotes, and outright falsehoods... Since the
Internet gives equal space to material of greatly varying quality, the degree to which the
internet can been viewed as being a total force for good is drawn into question. If an informed
society is an empowered society it therefore stands to reason that a misinformed society is
disempowered society.
[1] Bartlett and Miller, Truth, Lies and the Internet. A Report into Young Peoples Digital
Fluency. 2011

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Counterpoint
The Internet gives millions of people access to information they would not otherwise have
had, which is a huge benefit. People who read the news, offline or online, are not inherently
dupable, they like all people do not simply accept messages they are, to varying degrees,
critical of what they read and not simply passive. When people spend a lot of time reading
online content they can differentiate between bloggers who are untrustworthy or extremely
biases from bloggers who carefully refer to legitimate sources. The problem of bad
information in news-making is not unique to the Internet; there are lots of trashy magazines
and poorly researched news content in traditional print channels of communication as well.
We learn in formal education to double-check our sources and not believe everything we read,
and we can apply that skill while surfing the Internet.

It is not enough to say that the internet contans falsehoods to dismiss the value of the
internet. All mediums contain falsehoods whether intentional or unintentional but there is a
much broader picture that needs to be considered in terms of the ability of the internet to
provide people with freedom of expression and freedom of information, if it being a free for all
has the downside of some falsehoods then thaty is a price worth paying.

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The Internet is a threat to privacy

Point
Everyones privacy can be greatly harmed by the Internet. Some websites store information.
Some ask us to fill in information which can be sold to other sites for commercial purposes. As
the Internet gains more and more users the temptation for criminals to gain our private
information becomes greater. Hackers can hide their true location when engaging in illegal
activities online, so the likelihood of their being brought to justice is low. Whenever people
post something online, it becomes almost impossible to erase, and with the proliferation of
social networks posting personal information online is becoming second nature, this is a
dangerous precedent. Take for example the posting of our locations online via geotagging,
this for many is an action which doesnt take much consideration, however, to demonstrate
the danger of this designer Barry Borsoom setup the website PleaseRobMe.com which would
grab geocaching data and tell people when a persons house was potentially empty.[1]
With the aid of the Internet then, we are symbolically sleepwalking into a big brother style
existence, in an information age all data about ourselves is an important asset and one which
needs defending. The infringement and degradation of our privacy as a side-result of the
Internet should be of great concern, and it is potentially one of the most detrimental effects
the Internet could have on society.
[1] Hough, Please Rob Me website causes for telling burglars when Twitter users are not
home, 2010

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Counterpoint
Privacy online is a big concern, but an educated citizen can navigate the Internet in a safe and
sensible manner with minimal privacy issues, although as with being offline a the threat of
crime can never be entirely eliminated. When we go online no-one forces the user to share
private information, it is volunteered by the user in exchange for a free service, it is often a
small price to pay for the services that can be received in return, such as free e-mail or free
webspace. Of course privacy can be infringed in other ways, by unlawful access to personal
files for example, but if protection such as firewalls are setup and users are careful about
what they download privacy online can be easily maintained. It is misleading to say we are
sleeping walking into a big brother existence, it gives in impression that the effect the
Internet is having on society is conspiratorial, this is clearly not the case, people like the way
the Internet can bring people all over the world together. Privacy is no more of a problem
online than privacy is in the offline world, the issue is being overstated by the proposition.
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The Internet has allowed a large amount of criminal, offensive and

discriminatory information to be easily accessed.

Point
The ability for anyone to be able to publish anything online without barriers resulted in a large
amount of information which could not only be incorrect but could also be criminal, offensive
or discriminatory if it were available to the general public. This sort of information would not
usually be widely published via offline channels, but with the advent of the Internet it is very
easily accessible by anyone like never before, and this is a dangerous president. A cavalcade
of propaganda from extremist groups such as religious zealots or Neo-Nazis for example can
be accessed by anyone around the world. This is dangerous as vulnerable people could easily
be taken in and exploited if the discovered this material. It is quite often found that lone-wolf
terrorists, for example, have gotten their information and inspiration from the Internet. Garry
Reid, deputy assistant secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Combating Terrorism in
the USA states that Enabled by 21st-century technology, extremists have optimized the use
of Internet chat rooms, Web sites and e-mail chains to spread their virulent messages and
reach a global audience of potential recruits.[1] But it is not only terrorists who are utilizing
the Internet at a detriment to society. Various reports have linked a sharp rise in paedophilia
with the growth of the Internet[2] as it is an easy and often anonymous way to share such
material with the world. The ability for anyone to publish anything online could clearly do
considerable harm to society, which would have otherwise been much less prevalent and
easier to control and regulate.

[1] Romm, Internet Helped Flight 253 Suspect Radicalize, 2010

[2] Cowan, Arrests of Internet Paedophiles Quadruple over Two Years, 2005. Daily Mail,
Psychologists Warn of Causal Link Between Internet Porn and the Rise in Sex Offenses. 2011.

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Counterpoint
Freedom of information should mean freedom of all types of information, even if it is extreme
propaganda from fringe groups such as neo-Nazis or Al-Qaeda. The public must be trusted to
be able to make its own decisions on the value of such texts. What is great about the Internet
is that points of view that would not necessarily get much publicity in traditional media can be
aired and discussed online, from serious issues such as capital punishment to less serious
ones like aliens. Of course one of the downfalls of such freedom is that illegal content such as
child pornography can be made available in a way which it could not have before, but
highlighting this issue is not entirely fair as it is greatly outweighed by the information
available online that is perfectly fine and legal. This does not of course excuse the publication
of such images. It is, however, a slight misnomer to suggest that the Internet is entirely free
from the restraints of law. In issues of legality, governments can take action: they can either
trace the origin of the images or force web space providers and ISPs (Internet Service
Providers) to take down the content. On the whole, having ready access to such a large
amount of information, and being able to freely add and discuss it, is beneficial to society,
because it is both liberating and educational.