CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION
4.5 F ROM P EER S OCIAL N ETWORK TO V ERTICAL S OCIAL N ETWORK
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do not add OOO as a good friend first, or lock the journal; next, modify the journal as the one, which can only be read by good friends. She will wonder why everybody has responses except herself. Then, she will ask others why. They would say they have no idea, either. They keep secret this way. The journal would not be deleted until OOO and I restore our friendship. They (the members of a small group) would remind me, “OOO and you restore your friendship now.
Should you delete that journal?” (Betty, November 17th, 2009)
例如，OOO 很…，然後就可以打在無名文章，然後把 OOO 先不要加為好 友，或者鎖起來，然後把文章改為只有好友能夠閱讀，然後呢，她就覺得很 奇怪，然後大家都有回應，只有她沒有回應，她就會問其他人，其他人就會 說我也不知道，其他人就會保住這個祕密不會說出去，等到我跟 OOO 比較 好，就會把文章刪掉，他們（小團體成員）就會說，現在變好了，文章是不 是該刪掉，他們會提醒我。
4.5 From Peer Social Network to Vertical Social Network
In the past, children made friends not more than their classmates or students in different grades in the same school. But in the era of Internet, they can find friends with the same preferences, or the same background (e.g. studying in the same school) through online games or blogs.
4.5.1 Extension to the Senior Social Network
In the blog, children can easily extend their social network upwards. They can link to other students’ blogs in the same school by the interconnection function. Betty emphasized that people who visit her blog are not only her peer classmates and
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friends are mostly junior high and senior high school students, even people from Taichung. Through blogs, social network of children can be extended infinitely, not only including peer friends at school.
Most people who visit my blog are in the same term with me, but there are also some seniors. (Betty, August 11th, 2009)
大部份逛我部落格的人就是跟我同一屆的，還有學姐。
I have net friends. They are all junior or senior high students. I wonder why many of them are from Taichung. (Star, November 14th, 2009)
我有網友。都交國中的，或是高中的。不知道為什麼，台中的人比較多。
4.5.2 No Boundary between the Virtual World and the Real World 4.5.2.1 Emotional and Action Support
Star put a very large number of photos in his blog albums. He said he doesn’t care whether it is praise or criticism and what he only cares is the response after any browsing. The responses from the unknown net friends make him feel what he wrote interested them. Writing about troubles in real life, he would receive advice and encouragement from his real friends, but those unknown friends’ advice is important, too. Their responses, the known or the unknown, put him in a good mood the whole day.
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Whether you say I am ugly or handsome doesn’t matter. I just want responses. As I posted a journal Worries recently, over a dozen net friends (the unknown) responded to this. They told me that there is no need to worry, such is life and just go ahead. It seems that they are interested in my journal or whatever else, and give me some feedback etc. They will know what caused the trouble indeed in my real life. The concern from the unknown, and the acceptance from my friends, put me in good mood the whole day. (Star, November 14th, 2009)
不管說我長的醜或長的帥都沒有關係，有回應就好。像我最近 po 一篇 「煩
惱」，大概有十幾個網友（不認識的人）過來回應我，跟我說不要想那麼多，
反正日子總是要過的。感覺就是說他們對我的文章或是什麼有興趣，也會給 我一些意見等等。也會知道在我的現實生活中，到底發生些什麼造成我什麼 困擾。有一些不認識的人的關心還有我的朋友們的認可。他們的回應會讓我 一整天心情都變好。
4.5.2.2. Bullying Interleaving in the Virtual World and the Real World
In the blog, someone would come to offend him sometimes, even ask for a fight.
In this case, Star asks his friends to his blog immediately via live messenger to provoke the offender. After fighting back and forth, the other part made it clear that Star was the wrong person, and then they made peace.
One day, after I posted a journal, a strange person came to say I offended his friend. More and more people came to join the fight. They all indicated that I did offend their friend, and ordered an apology from me. I asked some people to help
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one who also called Star), I said, “What a nerve! How ridiculous! It’s not me.”
And I showed them some information about my birthday and blood type. Then he said, “Sorry, that’s my mistake.” They are from another school. They even asked me to go somewhere for a fight. I deleted the journal after we made peace. It was not worth to keep it. (Star, November 14th, 2009)
就有一天我發一篇文章之後，就有一個莫名其妙的人到我無名說我嗆他朋友 一直一直嗆然後越找越多人，說我去嗆他們的朋友，說我還不趕快道歉，我 就去找一些人來幫忙嗆，後來他們把一些資料給我看（指稱 Star 嗆人的
文章），我就說神經病，有夠好笑的耶，又不是我，我就把我一些資料生日、
血型給他們看，他就說抱歉啊！我誤會了！是別的學校的學生，他們還叫 我去某個地方單挑。和解後我就把那篇文章刪掉了，那篇文章不值得我 留戀。
Blog abuse can also be expanded to the real life. When Star was in the fifth grade, because of a journal about his teacher in his blog, someone left a message and called their class as Chorus. Then, there were quarrels back and forth in the blog, and Star told the seniors in junior high school about this via live messenger. So, some senior left messenger in the blog, “How dare you abuse my school brother? I will teach you a good lesson, if you dare offend him again!” The other side responded, “Come on if you dare! Come on! Come on!” In this way, they both left aggressive words in the blog. A few days later, the senior of Star’s really went to the primary school for that offender. Now, the abuse on the Internet turned to real bullying on campus. Later, as a result, the offender left a message to apologize in Star’s blog.
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In the fifth grade, I wrote a journal in my blog about one classmate criticizing his teacher about the wrong teachings in class. Then, one person wrote in my blog, “Do you think you are great in school? Should students abuse teachers?
You dare talk about teachers like that! Your class is totally a Chorus! Insult your teacher like this. Chorus~Chorus~.” Then I cursed back, and he responded back and forth. I told several seniors who graduated about this via live messenger. At first, they wrote to warn him in his blog, “How dare you offend my school brother? I will teach you a good lesson, if you dare offend him again!” And he said, “Come on if you dare! Come on! Come on!” Then they said they would come to warn him. Two days later, they really came. They first came to me, and after I told them which class he was in, they went to him. This happened in school hours when I went out with my seniors. My classmates were terrified.
They thought the seniors were here looking for someone in my class, and later, they figured out the truth. The seniors taught him a good lesson, not me. Then, he cried, and apologized to me. And he wrote in his blog that evening, “Say sorry to someone. I shouldn’t abuse you like that. Sorry, I won’t be in this kind of idiot again.” (Star, November 14th, 2009)
五年級的時候，我在我的部落格裡面寫了一篇文章，是在寫我們班一個人在 上課時候說老師教錯了的事，然後就有一個人在我的無名寫：「你以為你在 學校有地位了不起喔！學生嗆老師應不應該啊？還這樣說老師，你們班是放 牛班喔！還嗆老師。放牛班～放牛班～」，然後我就回他髒話，他就一直回 一直回，後來我就在即時通線上跟畢業的幾個學長姊講，他們第一次是先去 他的無名警告他，跟他說：「你再嗆我學弟試試看啊！膽子很大嘛！你再講 我就去找你。」他就說：「有種你就回來啊！來啊！你們來啊！」後來就說 他們要來幾個人到學校跟那個人講，兩天之後他們就回來，然後他們就先來
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找我，我就跟他們講他是哪一班的，然後他們就去找他，而且那是上課時間，
然後我就外找，然後我們班就全班傻眼，全班都心驚膽顫，以為是找我們班 的，後來才知道是找別班的。是他們去處理的，也不是我去處理的，後來那 個人就哭了，反正他有跟我道歉就對了，他那一天晚在他的無名裡寫到一篇
「跟某某人說 sorry」，寫說不應該這樣講你的，對不起，我下次不會在這 樣白痴了。