Bullying Vs Cyberbullying

The word 'bullying' has developed a very traditional definition amongst society: a face-to-face interaction involving either verbal abuse and/or physical abuse. With the technological advances that have occurred within the past 15 years, bullying has become anything but traditional. Children and teens have more access to the Internet and to social media platforms more than ever before, thus allowing them to avoid face-to-face interaction. Within the past 15 years, there has been a significant rise of cyberbullying in the youth demographic (ages 12-18) (Slonje, Smith, & Frisén, 2013). In order to understand what the difference between traditional bullying and cyberbullying is, one must familiarize themselves with the definition of cyberbullying.

Cyberbullying is an ever-growing issue that occurs daily. A survey was conducted on 80 random teenagers with the topic of Cyberbullying. The survey consisted of 15.19% of the surveyors being between ages14-16, 45.57% of the surveyed were teenagers between the ages of 16 to 18, 27.85% were between the ages of 18 to 20 and 11.39% of the surveyed were above 20. The survey results showed that 88.75% of people knew someone who has experienced cyberbullying and 58.75% have experienced cyberbullying themselves. The survey also stated that 40.51% of the 10-surveyed said that they know someone who has committed suicide based on the influences online. Out of the 58.75% who

Bullying has been around since the beginning of time. Parents may remember when they were kids and the bully would pick on them or their friends by stealing lunch money or just getting beat up, and that was the end of it. The victims remember the hurt, frustration, and sadness it caused. However, these days, bullying is not just happening on the playground or at the bus stop, it is happening on the Internet and on cell phones, making it possible to bully a child 24 hours a day with multiple bullies and thousands of kids watching. Cyberbullying follows children nonstop and into the safety of their house. Sometimes kids are afraid to inform their parents about the cyberbullying that they will think its there fault. Or that their parents will call the bullies parents or other parents, making the bullying worse. However, the effect and pain that comes from cyberbullying is real. People underestimate cyberbullying, just because it is happening online and not in person. Cyberbullying can lead to many different factors like drinking, and drugs, poor grades, depression, eating disorders. Many students have even taken their own lives because of another student saying something to them online. Cyberbullying has been taking place a lot more in middle and high schools because of the increased usage of social media networks and technology. Cyberbullying is worse and more harmful than traditional bullying.

Online bullying is one of the many ways teens bully each other. Cyberbullying and traditional bullying have numerous differences. There are many ways you can be cyberbullied. It’s not just traditional bullying anymore that teens face. Unfortunately, 33% of all youth have been cyberbullied, as stated by the website worldvs.cyber bullies. According to Ellen DeGeneres, an advocate for bullied victims, “13 million kids are bullied every year and three million don't go to school because they are scared.” These statistics indicate how huge of a problem this is. As a result there are countless victims. A well known victim of cyberbullying was Phoebe Prince.

A study in the article “Is Cyberbully worse than Traditional Bullying” investigated the importance of medium (tradition vs. cyber), publicity (public vs. private), and bully’s anonymity (anonymous vs. not anonymous). The goal was to determine severity of hypothetical bullying scenarios among a sample of seventh and eighth graders. Participants were asked to rank a set of hypothetical bullying scenarios from the most severe to the least severe. Then, the scenarios were manipulated based on the aspect of medium and publicity, and the medium and anonymity.

This proposal will focus on the topic of cyberbullying. More specifically, cyberbullying vs. traditional offline bullying will be examined. This objective of this paper is to determine whether or not cyberbullying is a worse form of bullying than traditional offline bullying; whether the former has more of an impact than the latter. Currently, there is still some debate about this issue. While many claim that cyberbullying is worse than offline bullying, there are those who claim that physical bullying has more of an impact (Lenhart, 2009). Others do not say this directly; however, they highlight the type of bullying as being more important than whether the bullying occurs online or offline (Bauman, 2012).

When sending our children to school we expect them to be able to learn without distractions, but bullying makes that impossible. Bullying has been recognized as a problem for school children globally. In fact, school bullying has proven to be a risk factor for suicide, which has been identified as one of the top causes of death among teens (Erick Messias, 2014). Now that bullying and its importance has been acknowledged as a critical concern, several prevention methods has been established to combat the issue. However, many are unaware of a new form of bullying, the growing phenomenon of cyberbullying in and out of schools. It has been proven that cyberbullying not only occurs in schools, but

Cyberbullying has drastic effects on one’s psychological state. Cyberbullying tends to make its victims feel powerless, overwhelmed, and depressed. Cyberbullying is done anonymously and can be done anywhere and at any time. This is due to the fact that 94% of teens go online, while 89% of teens go online at home, 77% go online at school, 66% go online at the library, and 63% go online daily. The bullying can invade the victim's home, causing them to feel as if nowhere is safe, furthermore, they don’t know who is inflicting the pain, which may escalate feelings of fear. Because whatever is posted online is permanent, this also causes many to feel exposed or humiliated. As once something is on the web, it is never coming down. Many people believe that cyberbullying, is just teens being teens, and eventually, everything will die down and go back to normal. This is not the case, one example would be the Jessica Logan case. Jessica Logan was an 18-year old Sycamore High

n today’s society, the internet has taken over our daily lives we use it everyday from shopping and to do school work. The invention of the internet has improved everyday life dramatically it makes life so much easier. But not for ” the close to 34 percent of teens who have been cyberbullied via cellphone for the computer “(TeenSafe). This number of kids who get cyberbullied keeps growing over the years since we realized it's an empedic. Cyberbullying does not only affect a teens status online it also affects the teens personal life,relationships,work environment and the teens school life. When it affects a student’s school life the schools can’t really do anything about it. Because it didn’t happen on school campus it was online where the bully sat comfortably tormenting the victim. School’s are helpless in these situation which isn’t fair for the staff who care about these students. All school’s should punish cyberbullying because cyberbullying affects everything in the victim’s life including school.

With the internet being so popular today, many people may not have recognized the issue of cyberbullying and how it has affected many individuals throughout the world. Cyberbullying is the act of sending harassing and threatening messages to another individual through the internet. It has impacted a lot of people and is known to lead to fear, intolerable anxiety, depression, and has also lead to suicide. Since things are communicated and advertised on the internet a lot, the issue of cyberbullying can reoccur since nothing is accurately taken down. Individuals who bully do it because they want to feel better about themselves and sometimes are just looking for a good laugh. “Adapting to these new models of communication, cyberbullying has emerged as a new and real danger to students” (Stauffer, 2011, p.2). Cyberbullying is an issue that is only going to keep getting worse if nothing is being done to prevent it. Throughout this paper, I will be explaining the discrimination throughout cyberbullying, the impact it has on kids and teenagers, and how it can be prevented with better parental as well as school administration supervision.

One of the major issues in today’s society is cyber bullying, which is affecting almost everyone especially high school students. The main problem with cyber bullying is that it’s lowering teens self-esteem and causing depression among teens. According to Teen Safe, “83 percent of teens believe that cyber bullying has hurt their self-esteem, 30 percent of teens turn to self-harming behaviors, and 10 percent actually take their own life.” Sadly, this issue has been nation-wide since 2004 when Facebook was created and has gone on to this day. What makes this such a huge problem would be the fact that it’s dramatically affecting teens all over the nation. Cyber bullying should be stopped so that teens can have more self-esteem and less of a chance to have depression because of cyber bullying.

Technological advancement in the current world has been blamed for the alarming rate of crime and cyberbullying. Perpetrators tend to use electronic communication to send disturbing messages to threaten unsuspecting victims. According to Menesini, Calussi, and Nocentini (2012), research conducted in Italy indicated that some of the most common modes of cyberbullying include making silent calls and writing abusive SMS. On the other hand, cyberbullying, which is facilitated through the Internet, involves offensive chats and emails. Kowalski and Limber (2013) indicate that traditional bullying, which involves non-electronic means of provoking one’s feelings, does not differ so much from cyberbullying since both of them lead to widespread psychological impacts. Nonetheless, more researchers have conducted explorative studies to view the elements that either differentiate the two or show their linkage based on variables that define them.

Bullying is meticulous act that hurts young victims emotionally and physically. In other words bullying occurs when a more powerful person hurts, dismay or intimidates a weaker person on a frequent and deliberate basis. Bullying takes two different types traditional bullying and Cyber bullying. Traditional bullying takes three different forms, physical, verbal and social. Hitting, poking, shoving, tripping and slapping victims manifest physical bullying. Name-calling, derision, insults, teasing and racist remarks are forms of verbal bullying. Persuading others to exclude or reject someone are characteristics of social bullying. On the other hand cyber bullying, refers to the aggression through the Internet and technology. Cyber bullying takes place by sending mean messages, claiming to be someone else in order to despise that person and posting hurtful assertions about an individual. This kind of bullying can occurs by e-mail, blogs, instant messaging, and Web sites or through text messaging ( Sidorowicz, Hair & Milot, 2009). Relational aggression is a type of aggressive behavior. Relational aggression consists of social exclusion, friendship retirement threats, the spreading of malicious secrets, lies or gossip and giving the silent treatment.

Teens nowadays have the power to do pretty much anything and they have the perfect tool to get it done. The Phone. A small handheld supercomputer device, that is everything and anything you want it to be. But not everyone uses it for good, some people use it to hurt and harm others over the internet for self gain or reputation. Many people’s lives are ruined because someone does not agree with what someone said, but as an adult it is easier to deal with. As a kid, though it is harder to deal with and those bullied may be in danger.

Did you know that victims of bullying are 2-9 more times likely to commit suicide (Bullying Statistics.org)? Many people have committed suicide because of bullying. All forms of bullying can distract kids from learning, but traditional bullying, (or in other words physical/verbal bullying) will distract the student from learning the most, since they are face-to-face with the bully in the hallways, or even have classes with the bully. Being cyberbullied will distract the victim from learning, but not as much as being physically/verbally bullied, since the cyberbully might not be in their school. If a victim is physically and/or verbally bullied, they may feel like there is no way to escape the bullying. When Cyberbullied, victims do have a way out, and can avoid the harassment by not going on that website anymore. Therefore, bullying is more serious than cyberbullying.