Hate Groups on Facebooks

Facebook, a very common site, originally created in order to provide a forum for people who want to communicate with each other over the net, has recently become a forum for hate groups. I strongly oppose this phenomenon, and believe that it should be stopped.

While some of us might see hate groups on Facebooks as a harmless joke, I believe that it is an awful use of technology that should be taken very seriously. That is because hate groups might hurt teenagers very deeply, and they might even be worse than real life social harassments. The reason is that on the net, information gets spread very quickly and to a very large audience. Therefore, once a hate group is opened against a teenager, he might become extremely helpless- he wouldn’t be able to stop it.

Moreover, this phenomenon might serve a very bad example. When posted on the net, a huge amount of people can learn from those hate groups how to humiliate their friends, and by that, expand this very negative phenomenon, and make much more teens suffer from it.

The ministry of education has chosen to deal with this problem by explaining teens about the rights and wrongs of Internet use, instead of actively punishing those who participate in those hate groups. I believe that their attitude is wrong. In my opinion, dealing with hate groups cannot be done with lectures alone, since nowadays, teens tend to not really pay attention to such preaching lectures. I believe that the treatment for this affair should be by direct punishments and not only by lectures and explanations.

In conclusion, I think that a dismissive attitude towards hate groups on Facebooks is terribly wrong, and that the ministry of education should be responsible for handling this awful affair. I think that this matter should be taken care of with the same severity as real life violence- direct punishments.

Very interesting and very well put. (95)
Daphna