An Umbrella Term

     In the article, "When 'Trolling' Becomes an Umbrella Term by Vyshali Manivannan, the first thing I was curious about what the phrase "Umbrella Term". So I went online and looked it up and it said that an umbrella term is a word or phrase that covers a broad interval or set of functions or items that fall under a single category. When I saw that, I finally understood why he called trolling an umbrella term. He is saying the when someone mentions or thinks of trolling they bunch up all types of trolling from little jokes to harassment or destroying someone's reputations. Some of them may be harmless and others may be extremely insensitive or hurtful. He mentions how handling anonymity can be inconsistent because as he uses the examples of an anonymous accurately identifying of football player who raped a girl as "hacktivists", but when an anonymous inaccurately identified a policeman who shot a black man in Ferguson, they labelled him as a troll. In my opinion I believe that people may be using the term troll in the wrong way at times. They put the word troll and use it any time someone does something online that can be seen as wrong as shown by the Ferguson example. I do believe that Manivannan is correct that instead of finding a solution first we must first define what we mean by trolling. I think that instead of using the term trolling for every online harassment, we should use a stronger word for more severe cyberharassment. Trolling or cyberharassment, no matter what kind, is unnecessary but we need to find a distinction between harmless joke and harmful effects through online anonymous comments and posts.