Cyberbulling on tuenti.

Unfortunately, the Internet, like all tools, can be used for good or for evil ... Therefore, there have been cases of inappropriate use of social networks as a platform for bullying.

Despite the bullying has already existed, the emergence of new technologies, especially social networks in the school area by the hand of mobiles, have given a new dimension to the phenomenon by adopting the name cyberbullying.

Cyberbullying is defined by performing repeated acts to cause harm using new technologies, especially mobile phones and the Internet.

Social networks are particularly vulnerable to this problem due to their characteristics:

• Ease of anonymity (using fake profiles).

• The ease of communicating with a closed group of people

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• The ability to use all the tools you use the bully in the same interface.

For example in tuenti exist some profiles of Francisco Franco or Mussolini who extends racism messages or pages like ‘Hitler fans’.

From a legal standpoint, the implication is to consider where the acts are performed by minors, is that you notice when a minor is considered unimpeachable subject (not accountable for not having the necessary maturity) or when is considered to have sufficient maturity so that it can be judged.

The social networks play an important role in our life. On one hand they help us to keep the contact with the people and to inform us but on the other hand they have a lot of controversial problems.

Photo: http://soloeduca.org/bullying/

and the winner is... Facebook!

This new map confirm the Facebook power, which has been increased in 2010 getting be the first social network in Peru, Portugal, or India, countries that the last year were leaded by alternatives like  Ourkut or Hi5.

The map confirm that Ozone and his leadership in China is the most important alternative to Facebook while Twitter, with a high importance like a communication and informative (at real time) media, get 200  millions of users.

Despite this, Orkut, the Google social network, is still heading in Brasil and Mixi in Japan; however in both countries Facebook threatens to be, in a short time, the first social platform.

The Japan’s disaster on Social Networks.

The past 11^th March the east coast of Honshu, Japan, was victim of a magnitude 8.9 earthquake that generated a tsunami. The disaster has caused a lot of victims and hard damages in the airfreight, haulage and public transport that have been canceled.

The news has been spreading by the communication media around the world very fast but the social networks are helping to keep the contact with the country. Thanks to the canal of youtube Citizen Tube the Japanese residents have uploaded videos of the catastrophe and the people are tweet what is happening at the moment there on Twitter.

It says that the human is the only animal who stumbles twice with the same stone and it’s so true. If you are a public person you have to be careful with your tweets. After all the controversial with David Bisbal who make a stupid commentary about the few tourist around the pyramids in the middle of the Egypt’s revolution, yesterday Dulce María Espinosa,  a Mexican artist, make the same mistake with the earthquake. The singer tweeted ’’Como un tsumani en japon, puede hacer q tus olas me revuelquen el maldito corazon...’’ making a ridiculous love metaphor with the situation in Japan.