Tag: Mayor’s Witch Hunt

February 25,2015

the staff of the Ridgewood blogRidgewod NJ, According to  Chris Harris of the Bergen Record ,”Anonymity has diminished the level of mutual respect exhibited in public discourse, community leaders said Tuesday in a panel discussion about civility in society.” Really ? Apparently only when it comes from so called “community leaders ” .
https://www.northjersey.com/news/ridgewood-continues-series-of-panels-on-lack-of-civility-in-society-1.1277140

So who sent Councilmen Sedon’s job and anonymous email ?and which “community leader ” spams the Ridgewood blog with thousands of nasty messages daily using Anonymous IP providers ? Even issuing semi terrorist threats  and  attacking even student success stories?

A funny thing is that in the early days of this blog , a certain Ridgewood News ( North Jersey Media ) editor used to attack the Village of Ridgewood and its residents through anonymous posts on this blog . She was later outed and the rest is history.A Reader says ,(they)think they know better than the general public, guess this is one reason I stopped getting the record.This group in general strikes me as arrogant as hell and a couple of them with no clue what so ever as to why they are even there. I also wonder how many of them are anonymous bloggers?

While anonymity of blog posters took a hit as expected some pointed out that even on facebook were you know who everyone is  the comments can be even nastier . A resident put it down to a type of “keyboard bravado.”
https://theridgewoodblog.net/it-all-comes-down-to-keyboard-bravado/

And of coarse who could forget Yik Yak attack on RHS ,  Yik Yak is called the “most dangerous app I’ve ever seen ” https://theridgewoodblog.net/psychiatrists-view-yik-yak-is-most-dangerous-app-ive-ever-seen/  Again nothing to do with the Ridgewood blog .

Now for some interesting facts :

Notice these social networks offer few options for anonymous functions and also notice Facebook (no anonymous functions) is a major source of cyber bullying clearly uncivil behavior .

CyberBullying and Social Networks

Facebook: of all youths polled, 75% of them use facebook and 54% of those experienced cyberbullying.

Youtube: of all youths polled, 66% use Youtube and of that number, 21% of that percentage experienced cyberbullying.

Twitter: of all youths polled, 43% use Twitter and 28% of them experience cyberbullying.

Ask.fm: of all youths polled, 36% use Ask.fm and 26% of them experienced cyberbullying.

Instagram: of all youths polled, 24% use instagram and 24 of those experienced cyberbullying.

Tumblr: of all youths polled, 24% use it and 22% of those experienced cyberbullying.

Myspace: of all youths polled 4% use it and of that,89% experienced cyberbullying.

Another Survey done by legal experts Slater and Gordon and the Anti-Bullying Alliance, reveals that over half of children and young people in England (55.2%) accept cyber-bullying as part of everyday life.

67% of children would turn to their parents if they were bullied online. However, 40% of parents do not know how to respond if their child is cyber-bullied or how to set up filters on computers, tablets and mobile phones that could protect their children.

49% of parents say that the amount of opportunities their child has to access the internet leaves them struggling to monitor online behaviour, with 51% saying this also makes them afraid for their child.

69% of teachers and 40% of young people said that more should be taught about cyber-bullying and online safety through the national curriculum. However, 43% of teachers said their school did not currently teach anything about cyberbullying and online safety. More than 30%of teachers said they didn’t have adequate knowledge to match the online behaviors of their pupils, with 44% saying they didn’t know how to respond to cyber-bullying.

https://nobullying.com/cyberbullying-bullying-statistics-2014-finally/