Monday, 8 May 2017

QUESTION 4-DIGITAL ETIQUETTE

QUESTION 4

DIGITAL ETIQUETTE


Several types of inappropriate behaviours
a)    Cyberbullying – Sending mean or threatening messages
      Can be defined as the use of Information and Communications Technology (ICT), particularly mobile phones and the internet, deliberately to upset someone else. Cyberbullying is a sub-set or ‘method’ of bullying. It can be used to carry out all the different ‘types’ of bullying (such as racist bullying, homophobic bullying, or bullying related to special educational needs and disabilities). (Robert, 2016)
Online reputation:  There will be grown-up consequences, such as ruined professional relationships due to cyberbullying. 

b) Flaming- Flaming is similar to harassment, but it refers to an online fight exchanged via emails, instant messaging or chat rooms. It is a type of public bullying that often directs harsh languages, or images to a specific person.
The examples of flaming are: Sending mean and threatening messages,  Posting offensive messages over the internet, Commenting on someone’s picture in a mean way,  Posting of mean Facebook status and  Sending a tweet about someone and saying something cruel.

Online Reputation: Threatening someone is an offense according to the law  therefore this can lead to serving of jail, not acquiring a proper job, being blocked by people close to you because of not being able to use the internet in a good an professional way.
c) Identity theft- is a situation where a bully creates a fake identity to harass someone anonymously. In addition to creating a fake identity, the bully can impersonate someone else to send malicious messages to the victim.
Example:  Stealing someone’s credentials in order to get into their account to do actions which are not supported by digital citizenship, Stealing the credentials in order to steal important information.
Online Reputation: Stealing other peoples information is highly a crime , this can cause on to serve jail time because of in-pleasant behaviour online , which can impact once online reputation

d) Photography- Taking pictures which are inappropriate for the audience to see.
Examples:   Taking half naked pictures,  Taking nude pictures, which exposes every single part of the body and Sexting online.  (Robert, 2016)
Impact on online Reputation: People will no longer respect you once naked pictures have been posted, some will also go an extra mile of in-friending you on Facebook this could also ruin better chances of acquiring a good job. Taking nude pictures and putting them on social media like Facebook is highly inappropriate.
e) Hacking –Corrupting other people’s computers or rather cell phones by invading their privacy. Logging on to someone account and making changes.

Impact if offers on online reputation: The impact it has is on other people because  they corrupt other peoples information  which this end up ruining their image online. You may find that a companies Facebook has been hacked and the image of the company has been tarnished this can be bad for the companies online reputation.


2.  Digital citizens should use their cell phones and internet very wisely, Good digital citizens should accept feedback from others to make sure that they are using technology wisely,  Do not steal other peoples identity,  Remember the human.  Do not abuse your power,   Do not use offensive language, Do not ask the questions that cannot be found on the site , Share and expert knowledge,  Know where you are in cyberspaces, Respect other people’s time,  Do not flood and Make yourself look good online.(Avaya, 2015)





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