Argumentative Essay On Cyberbullying

The future of America, will you choose to leave with it or try to stop it? One of the many things that the future has to worry about is Cyberbullying. I know this is probably the least of a lot of Americans worries, that is why my opinion is that it will not stop. Cyberbullying has increased tremendously as the development of technology has gotten more advanced. The more technology that is being created also creates more bullying on the internet. The more advanced things get also means the more advanced the bullying gets.

Typically, the person that is doing the cyberbullying is generally a victim of bullying themselves. How is cyberbullying done? Normally, the use of electronic devices to send messages that tend to emotional hurt someone feelings. Social media can lead to many negative outcomes when communicating to others. For example, if a teenage boy responds on a girl’s photo stating she is “ugly” is considered online bullying. One popular social media site is Facebook that over millions of people use for communicating. Facebook can be a positive source to communicate with family and friends that you may not see often. Also, it can be a very negative source that a lot of people use to criticize one another. Therefore, cyberbullying occurs nationwide

Cyberbullying should not be added to the United States criminal code for many reasons. If cyberbullying were added to the criminal code it would cause chaos, instead of fulfilling its intended purpose. Many people have different perspectives of cyberbullying and the way it should be handled. Sources one and two each express differing views towards adding cyberbullying to the criminal code. Source one agrees with this addition, and source two strongly disagrees.

Megan couldn’t take it anymore and decided to take her life away (Parents: Cyber Bullying Led to Teen’s Suicide). Teenagers are not aware and don’t come to full reorganization of what they’re doing on the internet. They take advantage of the technology we have and use it in their advantage. They are not realizing that their words even if they’re through the internet, they hurt other people and take them to depression. Not only does cyber bullying take victims to depression but it takes away lives. Cyber bullying also causes it’s victims to have a low self esteem. Having a low self esteem causes teenagers to act poorly in school and they become less and less excited about life. Everyone is different and everyone deals with situations differently. At the end of the day Cyber bullying is a form of abuse. It shouldn’t be practiced no matter what the reason behind it is. Cyber bullying is just as wrong as physical bullying. In some situations cyber bullying may seem like there is no physical threat or even contact but in reality it hurts the victims more than actual physical bullying. When teenagers practice cyber bullying not only are they hurting their victims but they are hurting themselves. Cyber bullies can end up in jail because there are now many laws that go against cyber bullying.

Picture a teenager sitting on their bed, crying. Their smartphone lays beside them, displaying a picture of them wearing a colorful hat with two thumbs up, smiling. The phone buzzes violently with nasty notifications: other people enjoy the hat far less and have no fear showing it. Many people want to stop cyberbullying like this, the use of electronic communication to bully a person, typically by sending messages of an intimidating or threatening nature. Cyberbullying, similar to other types of bullying, takes place online, usually through text messages or social media and hurts other people’s feelings. Bullying in any form leads to some real problems in the victims, so fixing this problem at the source serves as the only viable solution.

Over the last few decades, the use of technology continues to develop daily, impacting the lives of many American’s in a negative matter. In society, because of advanced technology through electronic devices, bullying has increased, people lack in social skills, and it has made people lazier.

Many people think that cyber bullying itself should be a criminal offense. Cyber bullying has been linked to a fair amount of youth suicides. An example of cyber bullying that led to a suicide was of a thirteen-year-old boy named Ryan Halligan. Ryan went to school in Vermont and committed suicide in October of 2003. The children that were friends with him had told his parents that he had been being bullied since the 5th grade and all the way up to the months before he killed himself. His parents then were able to find out why he committed suicide was by logging into his instant messaging account and seeing all of the humiliating messages that he had been receiving from a bully. Another

Cyberbullies have been a big problem since 2003. It’s 2016 and it is still a big problem and it’s getting bigger. Bullies will not stop at anything to put someone down even if it's crossing the line at ruining someone's career. Before Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter bullies, most bullying would take place in the classroom. Home is the one place you thought you were safe from the outside world but now your safe haven has been invaded by cyberbullies. Lawmakers are now deciding whether to leave it alone or prosecute.

Should Cyberbullying be criminally prosecuted? This is a very popular question that is asked by many people. Though there are many opinions, a decision still has yet to be reached. Arguments on this topic have often trailed to the First Amendment, the freedom of speech. Another is education, the point that the internet, first, must be understood. Charging a person as a criminal over simple teasing over the internet, that is classified as cyberbullying is unjustified.

What is cyberbullying? Cyberbullying is checking your social media only to find out someone is sending hateful message, or finding out someone made a hate account for you. It is hurtful and can cause multiple illnesses. It can make you consider suicide and much more. Cyberbullying can go so far to make a child, or teen,commit suicide , and what is the difference between killing someone or leading someone to kill themselves? There's no difference, because in the end, it is still you that's behind the death of the victim. That's why I believe people should be prosecuted for statements made in social media, to a certain extent.

“The real solution is not criminal prosecution, but it should be education and selective participation.” 60% of young people who have been cyberbullied say that it has affected them in their personal life. However, if a child can’t handle the bullying, they should not use the Internet. Cyberbullying is bullying another person on the Internet. Individuals should not be prosecuted for statements on social media.

When thinking of bullying, most people tend to think about the original form, where the bully harasses the victim in person; but, in this generation, cyberbullying is a new form of harassment that goes beyond the schoolyard. This way, individuals can be bullied all day and any day, but when you ask teens today, 81% of them think it is funny. (NPC) This shows that most teens do not think of cyberbullying as much of a threat, even though the rate in has gone up. In 2008–2009, the School Crime Supplement indicates that 6% of students in grades 6–12 experienced cyberbullying. (Stop Bullying) Six percent of the student body has been abused over the internet and they may be struggling with depression and thought of suicide go higher, from two to nine times more (Do Something). The National Crime Prevention Council announced cyber-bullying as “a problem that affects almost half of all American teens.” The effects of cyberbullying are increasing and going from depression to suicide. Cyberbullying should be more widely known because its prevalence is increasing, anyone can be a target, and school and parents should be monitoring the children’s online behavior.

Did you know that approximately 33.8% of students have been victims of cyberbullying? (Hinduja). With a percentage being over a third of students having been victims of cyberbullying, the time to address this issue is currently at all-time high, especially as technology becomes more integrated into our daily lives and amplifies the risk of cyberbullying. Cyberbullying is the act of bullying another through means of electronic devices. Cyberbullying can occur anywhere, unlike traditional bullying that requires in person altercations. Through cyberbullying, the bullying can happen at any time of the day and anywhere, leaving the victim with almost no escape from constant torment. With this in mind, school officials should monitor and fight cyberbullying because it affects student life, such as academics, behavior, and their personalities.

Although bullying happens nationwide people, sometimes fail to acknowledge the importance of the topic and how it affects individuals and society. There are several ways the reality of bullying is taking place, which disrupts not only kids but also adults; whether it is physical, mental, or cyber bullying it is all contributing to promoting a barrier that may be perceived as negativity. However, from a bully’s perspective, it can be interpreted as a form of power that can often be difficult to understand. Alarming rates of bullying increasing nationwide, moreover, it has been portrayed as a failure of acknowledgement towards taking action

Bullying is a common thing in school millions of kids are bullied everyday at school and no one really knows.And bullying can hurt someone really bad by physically,verbally,emotionally,or sexually and more.When a bully is bullying somebody they call them names or try to fight them and make them feel hurt and bad but if you're being bullied just ignore the bully and act brave and that your not scared and that you don't care about them and act like they are not there.And always try to stay with a friend or a little group so that your friends can help you and make sure the bully doesn't try to do anything or just tell an adult and they can help you with the bully.Bullying can make you suffer from physical ailments like stomach aches and more.Technology can make bullying worse because when you post something bad about someone everyone can see it because it's online and if that happens to you just save the things the bully post about you because you can use it as evidence and get the bully back, but most times when a bully is bullying someone is because that bully wants to feel empowered and manipulate people or that bully might have been bullied before so they bully other people.