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Course : 76-101.
Contribution Paper
Abstract :
By replacing roses, diaries and candles with pages, birthday reminders and 'likes',
social media has affected the way we interact with people around us. These tools
which include pages and groups have started affecting our lives enormously by
providing us with platforms where we can say whatever we want without facing
immediate consequences. Confession pages are also such platforms which have
gone viral these days. Many confessions on these pages give room to the users
to make fun, taunt and lay allegations on eachother which often lead to drastic
reactions and even trigger people to suicide. Ironically this is not one-sided. Where
at times, the 'confessor' makes fun of a specific person, many a times, the
confessions are very emotional and are followed by some one-liner sarcastic
comments which can actually cause distress for the confessor who would then
think of his/her feelings as vague and those that nobody cares about. Moreover,
since the comments are not anonymous, they would infact ruin the relationship of
the 'confessor' and the 'commentor'. Not only do confession pages affect
individuals but because they are followed by the name of an institution, they also
cause harm to the reputation of such institutions. Thus my paper shall discuss how
these confession pages, an instance of tools on Facebook are affecting our
relationships negatively, triggering cyberbullying, and causing harm to the identity
of schools and universities. The importance of the issue lies under the fact that if
these pages are disconnecting us rather than integrating us, then our offline
from creating strong ties with people and eventually making us lonely. Dr. Larry
Rosen (2012) in his book "iDisorder" complements Marche and tells us that this
narcissism and carelessness towards other peoples' feelings makes us selfcentered and isolates us. Talking about Facebook's negative impact on our