PUPOSIVE COMMUNICATION IN THE 21ST CENTURY

TASK 5
Name: Teresa Faith R. Manlangit Date: September 11, 2018 Score:

Start with Ethics Makes Cyber Communication Smart

The impact of cyber communication in today’s youth can affect and influence our
personal, emotional and social domain. Communication has innovated by the necessities
of today’s generation. The Internet has a pivotal role in our advancement of our life.
Websites, e-mail and especially social media creates a faster simultaneous interaction.
Even though cyber communication makes sending and receiving messages easier, there
are still challenges on facing ethical issues that can harm vulnerable victims of cyber-
bullying and other possible circumstances.

Integrating the Internet with communication allows us to share personal perspectives,

knowledge, and experiences, and structure discussions for debate. However, cyber
communication can access personal information without your permission. With the press
of a button, someone can stalk you and simply summarize your life with your give info in
social media. Someone can blackmail you through this collection of found info’s or
expose something shouldn’t be exposed. Youth are depending actively on the internet as
an essential form of social interaction. Social interaction nowadays are more virtually
rather than physically. In result, there is a less direct human contact creating social
isolation during young adulthood that gives identical crisis which makes a person more
vulnerable. Freedom is widely spread but too much freedom can allow someone to harass
you online since there are no repercussions personally. This creates cyber-bullying,
cyber-stalking, cyber-harassment conversations, or “flaming,” a public personal attack,
where people demonstrates verbal abuse and aggression. The group of norm violations
such as racism, sexism, and homophobia are usually differentiate and treated badly.
Discussions of suicide, self-mutilation, harming oneself or someone else are prevalent on
the Internet that vulnerable people may be conveyed. A simple bad cyber communication
can destroy one’s good peaceful life.
 To be safe from any circumstances, we need to balance personal, social, and
emotional awareness in interacting through cyber-communication. Always make your
own safe environment which means limit yourself and be wise who you are
communicating in social media. We should be aware the safe ways to deal with cyber
communication to create health social relationships. Do not start or be part of cyber-
bullying. Consider the consequences when you post something in social media or what
you share on group chat. Acknowledge the reliable sources and do not support any fake
news or even make one. Always treat respect not only in the real world but in the virtual
world too since the internet is a big world of communication with different cultures and
norms. Finally, the key is to start yourself with ethics and influence others to make cyber
communication safe and smart.

References:
https://www.infosecawareness.in/infosec-concept/internet-ethics
https://ryanruud.com/resources/cyber-communication-mass-media-theory/
https://www.counseling.org/resources/library/ACA%20Digests/ACAPCD-14.pdf