Thesis: Although comments allow for users to spread their ideas and debate controversial topics, it is clear that they are a main source of cyberbullying. Comments should be moderated by a diverse staff to ensure that only positive ideas are displayed.

Examples: 

1. “Josh concluded by telling Megan, “The world would be a better place without you.” The cyberbullying escalated when additional c lassmates and friends on MySpace began writing disturbing messages and bulletins.” – supports my thesis because it shows cat fishing online and it shows how that would lead to other forms of cyberbullying. http://www.wtps.org/cms/lib8/NJ01912980/Centricity/Domain/742/The%20truth%20behind%206%20disturbing%20cyberbullying%20cases%20that%20turned%20into%20suicide%20stories.pdf

   2. “To everyone saying she is beautiful in all of the looks, I’m going to have to disagree. That last one, with everything combined, DEFINITELY reminds me of a meth addict.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnV5NYy8bAQ – this quote supports my thesis because it shows how cruel people are when posting in the comment sections. This wasn’t even one of the worst comments posted, it honestly might be one of the nicer ones compared to the other hateful ones.

   3.  “By their own admission, most of the staff, across the board, for Facebook and Twitter are both male and white, leaving the people in charge ill-equipped to determine what is or isn’t bigoted on their platform.” and “Due to the homogeneous nature of their employees, there are obvious missing spots in their policy procedures, simply because privilege means that you do not have to account for many of the various needs and cultural offenses that marginalized people of color experience.” https://modelviewculture.com/pieces/how-reporting-and-moderation-on-social-media-is-failing-marginalized-groups -this supports the second part of my thesis about diversity in the staff of social media sites. Moderation is a nice thought but to get it done it needs to be fair and include all cultures.

   Moosa’s Article: 

1. “Every week brings a new reminder women are not welcome-especial on the internet”- this quote supports my thesis because most of the cyberbullying happens to girls, not saying it doesn’t happen to men too but its more redundant with women.
2. “The major thing isn’t anonymity so much as it is non-accountability: there is no tangible, negative consequence for treating someone awfully.” – this quote supports my thesis because it shows that it makes it easy to cyberbully since it is behind closed doors.
3. “readers should be thankful they’re allowed to comment directly on the site” this quote does not support my thesis because he does not think that users should not be commenting their opinion. I believe that people can comment their opinions as long as they present it in an educated manner.