Wikipedia Project

I put the final edits on our wikipeida project. I am not too happy with the final product because, along with most of our group, I feel that it could look a little prettier. We did seem to have some trouble with learning how to post pictures and organize things to look right. The final page can be found here. The tasks that I ended up doing were some basic copy editing on the page for dog food and some style editing on the page for a book called Rainbow Boys.

Trolling...

I think that the pleasure of trolling is the same pleasure that someone gets out of teasing someone in school. He is a bit smarter than your average schoolyard bully, so his teasing and pranks are a bit more extreme, but it is the equivalent of a snotty girl spreading rumors or a bully taking kids lunch money. It is an online version of making yourself feel better by making others feel small, with the results and the intentions being the same, but representing itself as fighting for justice or helping out society.

Cyberbullying

I think that basic characterization of a true profile as opposed to a fictitious one is the intention of misrepresenting yourself. This case is a clear example of a fictitious profile, because it was created by a mother, but the profile represented itself as a 16-year old boy. I think that learning the difference between a true profile and a fake one is very relative. Some people can misrepresent themselves so well that you would have no idea. There is no absolute way of telling whether or not any profile is true. As for who is at fault, I believe it was the mother who created the profile. Somehow it is acceptable to bully a child online, but would she have said those things to her face. If a mother had been found to be spreading a rumor like that in a social situation as opposed to online, she would have been vilified, as she well should be. How would she feel if someone did that to her daughter?

Wikipedia Tasks

The tasks that I am planning on doing are to copy-edit an article and editing one for neutrality.