00:03I would say have a really close look at yourself in the mirror because one day you will not be
00:09a
00:09teenager. One day you are going to be an older man and you are going to look back at this
00:13behavior and you will have regret. A group of women and girls on a women's history walking
00:18tour in Wollongong have been allegedly surrounded and harassed by a gang of teenage boys on e-bikes.
00:26They surrounded the group and started asking if they could join the tour. When the guide said no
00:31they continued to push and heckle. They didn't stop. When the women moved away the boys followed.
00:37They mocked them, they harassed them. Someone in the tour eventually called the police. The teenage
00:44girls on the tour were the least shocked of all. They felt like this was completely normal behavior.
00:50It makes me feel sad that this type of behavior is so expected. Despite the social media ban for
00:56children, a cyber psychologist with the University of Wollongong says teenagers are still being
01:03influenced by social media.
01:05It's what gets clicks gets reinforced and unfortunately there's a negativity bias there.
01:11The outrageous, the angry, the abusive. It does get more attention. It gets more clicks,
01:16it gets more likes. This is a, this is a simple Pavlovian conditioning. That behavior gets rewarded,
01:21that behavior gets more. The odds of it happening again are higher and higher and higher.
01:26Joeером will gain answers.
01:26Joe.
01:26Joe.
01:35Joe.
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