Students' Good Works

3A(15) Lee Ho Kwan, Kelvin

Useful ways to stay away from Internet Crime

In recent years, Internet has become a part of our daily life. We can communicate with others, collect information and do shopping through Internet. The Internet is very useful. However, we have to be careful and avoid falling into traps when using it. In view of this, I would like to give several suggestions to everyone on how to stay away from Internet crime.

For online shopping, there is a point which we have to be aware of. First, we need to check the credibility of online shops. Some of the shops intend to collect personal information instead of selling items. Therefore, we have to be careful when doing online shopping. Otherwise, our details of credit cards may be disclosed without our permission.

Besides, we need to be careful when we collect files from the Internet. We must not download files from unknown sources. Also we must not download copyrighted materials since it is illegal.

Moreover, we should use instant messaging to chat with family and friends only. If you want to meet new friends online, you should verify the identity of new friends made online as some of them may have bad intentions. After all, you should enjoy messaging with your friends only.

Furthermore, you need to make friends carefully in online chatroom because unknown friends may only intend to collect your personal information when chatting with you. It is important for you to protect yourselves in this platform. If you are worried about it, you may chat with friends you have already known only in online chatroom.

In conclusion, Internet has brought us a lot of conveniences in our daily life. However, we need to be careful when using it and avoid Internet Crime to spoil our fun.

5A (13) Addixon Lam

Dear Editor,

I am writing to express my opinion about the abnormal amount of social media influencers nowadays. After doing my own research on this strange phenomena, I have found out that most of them help promote company products or services, and this situation is spreading like wildfire, and I like I have come up with some reasons for this. 

I think this marketing strategy is quite genius for the company as social media influencers can have millions of followers, and more people are incorporating social to their daily lives, meaning the follower count of those influencers will only keep climbing. In the end, these online stars can earn an enormous amount of money from being an advertiser of these companies, the companies will also be benefited as more people notice their products, with the help of influencers, the possibility of someone purchasing their products or using their paid services are greatly increased, which in turn make their products more profitable.

This is what I think about this recent trend. However, I personally think that there could be some other reasons for this online marketing campaign.

First and probably the most noticeable cause for this online influencers growth and marketing strategy is that social media are getting more wide spread and popular among younger age groups. Teenagers often want to be noticed and be famous, this could be a possible reason for them becoming online influencers, which could explain the phenomena.

The other obvious culprit is that companies realize that using these influencers to sell tire products or services is getting more profitable than traditional marketing campaign like using television advertisement. As a result, not only do they sponsor these influencers to promote their company they might also send their products for them to test and review, with the eyes of millions watching their videos about opening boxes and testing items that they didn’t purchase, the company can spread their name to others, faster than the speed of light. With their items getting attention and spread like a plague, their earnings will immediately jump sky-high significantly increase their income. It is an intelligent way of merging marketing and technologies together.

These are what I think the main reasons for the shocking explosion of new born social media. There could be another hundred possible explanations for this, but this is my own conclusion on this hot topic of discussion.

In the end, companies survive through selling products with countless alternatives marketing strategies, and this new way of marketing is just only one line they are using to keep their blood supply flowing continuously. Even without this, hardly will these companies collapse or fade away. However, it seems to me that this will probably last till the foreseeable future as some people are still adopting the concept of connecting people to people through social media, and people are just addicted to using social media.

This is my personal opinion and conclusion about the recent light speed growth of social media influencers and the modern route that companies are taking to promote their products and increase their sales.

Yours sincerely,

Chris Wong

5A (22) Ocean Ng

Cyberbullying

The phenomenon of cyberbullying is more and more common. I’d like to share my friend’s experience of being cyberbullied and how he handled it. 

Nowadays, nearly everyone can afford a mobile phone. Everyone had his own phone. However, most teenagers use it in the wrong ways. They just use their phones in making friends and playing social media, such as Soul, Instagram and Facebook. It may cause them to post the ugly photos of someone they don’t like. But they don’t know this small behaviour will damage one’s confidence and make him or her injured mentally.

I have a friend who has been bullied online by his classmates. He used to make friends in different methods. He sent his photos to many people who may be strangers by just having a short chat. One day, he sent a photo which showed his body to a classmate group. But he did not have feeling. And, his classmates saved it and spread it out. Then he found that his own body photo was sent to the other groups. He knew that his photo was stolen. He didn’t know what to do. The people around him started to make jokes about him and his photo. At last, he told the fact to me. Due to my limited experience, I couldn’t help him but I suggested him to seek help from a teacher. At last, his teacher helped him to settle the cyberbullying issue.

His strange experience gave us an alarm. We should not send something unnecessary online to prevent cyberbullying. However, we don’t know when cyberbullying will come to us. So we must learn how to prevent and handle cyberbullying.

At first, I believe that we shouldn’t sent our own photos online, as it can reduce the risk of facing cyberbullying. We also need to try our best to protect our personal information, including our name, photo, mail account, phone number and so on to prevent cyberbullying. Although those cyberbully can’t be predicted, we can use our behaviour to prevent it.

Then, if the cyberbully really happens, what should we do? Only crying or worrying? Of course not. If we find that our private information has been stolen, we can contact those people who steal our things from us. If he or she can’t answer you, you can complain that the user of certain account is doing something bad for some other accounts. But if you are bullied by your classmates or friends, you can tell him or her that you do mind what she or he is doing. If they don’t understand you or don’t want to set you free, you can discuss this situation with your parents and teachers. Please ask them to five you a hand and help you solve the problems.

Actually, the root of the problem of cyberbullying is that between you and your friend is not strong. You should learn how to make a forever friend and keep long-term relationship. Making more friends can help you improve your social ability instead of making virtual friends online. Therefore, keeping strong friendship is vital for you in order to bring harmony to the world.

Cyberbullying is harmful for people whether for the bully or the victim. Let it go out of our life and to create a peaceful society. Then, we can have a happy life together.

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