An Oral Survey Of 1502 Young Men And Women

Cyber bullying is the new shape of bullying. The growth of information and communication technology has contributed to its growth. Cyber bullying occurs through sending of images or posts through cell phones and the internet. The aim is to hurt or embarrass the victim. Inclusive in this definition are actions of deception like posing as the casualty in an embarrassing manner, revealing confidential information, spreading rumors to chat groups to limits like death threats (Green 25). This paper discusses the nature and form of cyber bullying, as well as using a case study (Megan Meier) to demonstrate the evil consequences of cyber bullying.

Cyberbullying is when psychological harm is done through the use of electronics such as computers, cell phones, e-mail, social networking, and instant messaging (Clancy 579-582; Hanel, Trolley 33). However, in addition to the verbal behaviors, cyberbullying can happen when someone posts pictures or videos without the consent of the other person, creates hate websites of the victim, makes web pages posing as the victim, and such (Hinduja, Patchin, “Traditional and Nontraditional” 728; Willard 1). Cyberbullying is done two ways: direct and indirect. Direct cyberbullying is when such material is sent directly from the bully to the victim. Indirect cyberbullying is when the bullying is done through another person, another person’s screen name or cell phone, anonymously, or by hacking

Trolling is the new title that has been given to harassment that takes place on the Internet. A common example of trolling would be sending provocative messages via a communications platform for the pure entertainment of the sender, which then has a harmful effect on the recipient. There are different types of trolling; messages sent to harm others for the sender’s gratification are called ‘flame trolls’, and those to entertain others for their gratification have been given the title ‘kudos trolls’ (Bishop 2012a, 2012b). Where these actions have the resource to legal remedies they are called ‘electronic message faults’ and where the message fails to constitute an offence ‘electronic message freedoms’, and there is quite rightly nothing to

Many students from a sample of 10-18 year olds, 16.6 percent of boys, and 25.1 percent of girls believe that they had been bullied in their life. Surprisingly, 17.5 percent of boys, and 21.3 percent of girls felt that even they have cyberbullied before. ( Doc A). Cyberbullying is shown to happen to many teenagers, and is thus quite popular in modern day schools. Cyberbullying is shown to happen to a large percentage of the students.

Alienation is when you are an outsider; you may feel isolated from others for being different, therefore not part of a group. I have at times felt alienated when I couldn’t get on a ride due to my height. For

Physically being bullied frequently involves some sort of physical assault or attack, or can also consist of having one's personal belonging destroyed, tampered or stolen. Verbal bullying comes from the usual form of name calling that may be done due to a person's gender make up, sexual orientation, religious, age, or race. Due to the increase availability of technology indirect bullying is one of the most widespread types of bullying. It is usually the kind of bullying that countless people may do without even knowing so. Indirect bullying is the distribution falsely stories and rumors about an individual without the person knowing so, as well as the deliberate exclusion from social groups and gatherings. A current major issue, cyber bullying can also fall into the grouping of indirect bullying, but also includes bullying that is done with the use of any electronic device such as, email, text messaging, pictures through the use of text or email, message boards, websites, blogs, and even

Digital pile on is when someone promotes the involvement of others on social media who may or may not know the person who the target is. The next is online harassment. Online harassment is when someone sends hateful or threatening messages to someone that may or may not be an acquaintance. Following that is outing. Outing is when the victim finds information about themselves is being published online for everyone to see or to use against them, like blackmail. Victim blaming is one that happens more often. Victim blaming starts with being shamed and called heinous names. Trolling and masquerading have similar meanings, but just are a slight different. Trolling is when a person makes a fake social media account, or profile, to send rude comments or messages to someone. It is combined with masquerading, pretending to be someone they are not. All these different types of harassment play part of the big picture of making a victim feel worthless leading to self infliction of physical

Alienation - the state or experience of being isolated from a group or an activity to which one should belong or in which one should be involved. Alienations means you’re being excluded. Whether you’re not allowed in a group with someone or you’re ignored by your friends, those are all examples of alienation. In my life, I have experienced alienation, and it hurts, and feels kind of like abandonment.

Cyberbullying is a problem that has only come to light in the last few years. It has many different effects on people; it can cause depression, suicidal thoughts and actions, and effects the way students do in school. Cyberbullying is one of the top leading causes of suicide in teens and young adults (Swearer). Cyberbullying is a major problem that this country needs to get under control because it is leading to self-harm and suicide in teens and young adults. It causes an unsafe learning environment, and the victim cannot get away from the bullying because the attackers stalk them through social media accounts and their cell phones. So, how does

In conclusion, they’re four types of bullying in which I addressed. Overall the more bullying we here it happens whether it is at school or anywhere else the more it occurs. The question is, we as humans are we doing anything properly to combat this situation. Yes, they are many to combat bullying, but is that enough to end bullying. Bullying will always occur as long as individuals don’t take conscious of what they say to other is

One example is called flaming and involves having an argument and fight online with another person or many people. The messages communicated in the argument are very aggressive and insulting. The comments are made to purposefully upset, emotionally hurt, and embarrass the other person.

Digital pile on happens when a person asks others to get involved in a situation online, even when the other people do not know the target of the attacks. A person can get involved by simply commenting on a post without even knowing the victim. Online harassment is when someone sends repeated, hateful messages to someone, whether they know them in real life or not. This also includes sending inappropriate messages without the person’s consent. Outting happens when someone leaks someone else’s personal information (such as address and phone number) without permission, to purposely sabotage that person. Victim blaming occurs when the victim is taunted or called hateful names. When someone masquerades, they create a fake persona on the internet and use it to send hateful messages to others. The act of using a fake identity to insult and send heinous messages to people is called trolling. Finally, exclusion is when someone online exclusively singles a person out and and the same time, specifically harassing that person. All of the types of cyber harassment can be upheld by law and can result in hefty crimes and, in extreme cases, even jail

Annabelle Nemeth-A 2011 Risk Behavior Surveillance statistic showed 16% of students grades 9-12 were cyberbullied in the past year. According to the Impact of cyberbullying website in 2012, cyberbullying has become more common than regular bullying. There are many different types of cyberbullying. What makes cyberbullying worse for the victim is when the bully uses a clique to gang up against the target. The outcomes for the victim are devastating. The six most common types are harassment, flaming, exclusion. outing and, masquerading. These affect teens everyday. Harassment can involve the bully sending hurtful messages and can receive these messages over and over. They can make up inaccurate misrepresentations about someone. Flaming is another type that bullies use to harass people. It can be an online fight between a group or individual, often including harsh language or inappropriate images. Exclusion is the feeling of someone leaving you out. After that they might not want to attend school or participate in school. People can share personal or private information about someone. This is an act of outing. A bully can create a fake anonymous identity or profile to pretend to be someone they're not, they are masquerading. Trickery is another example where they can gain your trust and become friends with you

There are many types of bullying which is highly dependent on the nature of bullying. for example, the physical bullying may incorporate such behavior as hitting, pinching, kicking and any form of physical abuse considers physical bullying. The verbal bullying which incorporate spreading rumors, gossiping, insulting and teasing. Next which is the emotional bullying and this includes isolating and excluding other from the group. Finally, the cyber bullying which is another form of a violence practiced when online communication (Rai,2012). In addition, further elaboration for Physical bullying which happens when the bully practices physical aggression to force, threaten, or damage the sufferer. This is typically the easiest shape of

Technology can be used in many ways to cyber bully. Barnardos released a booklet in 2012 outlining a number of key risk factors of cyber bullying. Personal intimidation includes actions such as sending out threatening text messages, posting abusive and threatening comments on the victim’s Facebook profiles or other websites and the use of instant messaging in chat rooms etc. to threaten the victim further. Impersonation involves setting up fake profiles and web pages that are attributed to the victim; this also involves hacking or gaining access to the victims profile to contact or instant message others. Exclusion encompasses blocking an individual from a class group or community group on a social media website. Personal humiliation is a behaviour that involves posting images or videos of the victim that are intended to embarrass or humiliate them. This can be done on Facebook or by text messaging etc. And lastly false reporting, this is where the bully reports the victim to the service provider for a range of behaviours with a view to having the account suspended, blocked or deleted (Get With It, 2012).