Name: Rethink before you type | Trisha Prabhu | TEDxTeen
Uploaded: 2018-05-10T04:51:02.000Z
Duration: 11 min 31 s
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Translator: Leonardo Silva Reviewer: Mile Živković

tormenting and embarrassing messages on her social media.

I would come home from school to read that story.

But the pain and the misery that Rebecca endured

and I'm from the great city of Naperville,

at the source, before the damage is done.

I'm a big dreamer, and I believe that everyone

should have the right to dream, persist in their dream,

"Were there any others like her out there,

I'd soon learn that she was one of a countless many.

Megan Meier died three weeks before her fourteenth birthday.

"The world would be a better place without you",

Tyler Clementi was an eighteen-year-old student

to stream some of Tyler's most intimate moments with his boyfriend

jumping off of the George Washington bridge.

What if I could stop the damage before it was done?

Would Megan, Tyler and Rebecca still be alive today?

52% of adolescents in the United States alone

Let's look at it  from a global perspective.

A quarter of the world's population are adolescents.

Imagine that in the social media revolution;

how more and more of them are getting on social media,

and more and more of them are being cyberbullied.

Look, I might be biased, but I'm pretty sure

that kids are not mean devils that run around with cruel intentions.

I don't know about you, but that's what I think.

And what about adults? Are they nice or mean on social media?

Now, when it comes to adults, I wasn't really sure.

So, I had to do some research to figure that out.

So, that year, for my science experiment at school,

I decided to look at how age affected the willingness

to post offensive messages on social media sites.

This younger age group, ages twelve to eighteen,

was 40% more willing to post an offensive message

so much more willing to post an offensive message?

and it had one sentence that would forever change

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Rethink before you type | Trisha Prabhu | TEDxTeen

weird

pandemic

basically

intimate