I knew someone who created a Club Penguin account to troll the other users on it. They didn’t do anything on the account except for start protests and say… things to the other penguins. For example, they would take their penguin into a popular area and start a Club Penguin women’s march and get all the other penguins to shout out their protests. It was pretty inspiring, actually. But then they would go up to other penguins and say other things and get reported by them. After 20 minutes of creating their penguin, it died and got kicked off the website. I know this is a pretty lame trolling story and not as extreme as most, but it was the only one I could think of. I haven’t ever really been trolled the way we’ve been talking about in class. I think trolling like the example I shared is harmless and can be kind of funny depending on your humor.
Of course the more extreme forms of trolling aren’t so funny to anyone, unless you’re heartless, of course. If all social media took the action of deleting trollers accounts like Club Penguin, the internet would be a much safer place.
- Halla Bachle
I agree that the type of trolling you observed was harmless, but I noticed too that there was quick action to stop it. I think it is good that within 20 minutes of the activity the game shut the person out. I think more sites need to take actions like this to stop the more serious forms of trolling, and agree that doing so could make Internet use safer. Social media and Internet Sites could possibly learn a lot from this games proactive measures on trolling!
ReplyDeleteI have been tolled before on club penguin and it was not fun. As a 10 year old just going on to have some penguin fun I got told many things, but club penguin helped me out and they deleted the troller as soon as possible. I do agree with you that if all social media cites deleted trollers accounts the internet and social media would be a safer place.
ReplyDeleteI completely agree with you. I think that other social media apps should put more time into finding a way to stop trolling or to delete the comments. Club Pengiun did a good job of regulating it because many young kids use it, so it would be unfortunate for them to see trolling at such a young age. I liked your post because it brought to my attention that trolling even occurs at games meant for younger kids. I'll definitely be aware of what games I show my little brother online, so that he hopefully doesn't see trolling at a young age!
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