Why do people use technology to hurt others? As we all know and have seen, the Internet is not a place you can always rely on. Today's technology makes it very easy to use it negatively against others, for attention, and prevents others from communicating properly with others. They use it because they hide behind a screen and the victims don't know who they are. People use technology because it's a place where they can fool others into thinking they are someone else. Daum's article, "Elan Gale's Inglorious Twitter Hoax," is the perfect example of one of the ways people use technology today. “It was all a hoax... A few cringes aside, the general public reaction in recent days has been that it doesn't matter that Diane exists. What matters is that it's an allegory for our troubled and legitimate times... It's easy to see why someone like Gale and his fans would embrace this notion; It’s the same logic that underlies reality TV. (Daum) People don't care if it's fact or fiction. Technology is used in negative ways. These three articles are not exactly the same, but they are all examples of how technology has changed the world. Whether people agree with me or not, everyone uses technology. One thing we can agree on is that technology has changed the way the world generally communicates, either by not allowing people to truly interact and communicate with each other, by preventing books from helping our brain and mind to function better, and easily providing them with a way to hurt