Twitter, has it become a home for cyber bullying?

     Instagram, snapchat, twitter, and Facebook, I believe, are the most well known apps found on phones or tablets regarding social media. Out of these apps, nearly everyone i know in high school owns a twitter. Twitter has become a place for people to share funny videos, cute animal pictures, music videos, political views, opinions on any issue, or awareness of problems in the world. Although twitter has become a place that can be useful or positive, it has become negative too. Which one outweighs the other?
     As I was scrolling through twitter today i noticed a hashtag that had become viral across the world through the app. It was called "We Support you Shannon", which was about a band member in Australia who had gotten cancer. Everyone was trying to raise money and awareness for this person in hopes of getting him a successful treatment. This is a positive aspect of Twitter, it always people across the world to connect and work together towards a good cause. On the other hand, some twitter users abuse the hashtags that go viral for a good cause. They tag it but just tweet an advertisement or something completely irrelevant to the original topic. Twitter is also an app that allows people to watch funny videos, music videos, or be "relatable" to other teenagers. For example, there was also a hashtag called "Dinner in three words" that people would post three words or a picture of their favorite foods. Although this isn't positive or negative, it just allows people to relate and laugh for a minute in their day.

     Even though i saw many positive posts throughout twitter, i also saw a large amount of negative posts that could be considered cyber bullying. It is prom season and many girls are posting pictures, confident in their dresses. Certain people decide to take these pictures and insult them or compare them to something. There have been several incidents of this where girls are shamed for feeling confident in what they are wearing and how they look. Also, the owners and people who control twitter seem to do nothing about it. They ignore incidents on this app that are cyber bullying, which lets people to continue to post these extremely rude comments, when they should be getting banned from the app. Also, there is something most teenagers call "Twitter beef" which is when two users go back and forth at each other, typically over something extremely stupid. Some of the comments made during these small feuds can be hurtful, and can be looked at as bullying once again. Most teenagers don't have their parents following them on this app, which allows them to feel they can post anything they want. I am cautious of what i post each day because my mom receives an email whenever i tweet, but i know if she didn't i would not be as careful. I believe these social media apps should take some action towards these horrible things said and tweeted in the apps.
     All apps, though, will always contain both the positives and negatives of the opinions people will share. I believe that these apps have become a home, in a way, a home for negative things to be said. But in reality, no matter how much i bag on social media i find myself using it on the daily. I wish there was something i could do to take action towards these negative comments, so i wouldn't just have the scroll past them and try to block them out.