Cyber Bullying And Its Effects On Children

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For our research report I focused on cyber bullying and its effects on middle schoolers. While bullying has been around for many generations, new technology has created new types of bullying that has negative effects on middle schoolers mental health and behavior. Cyber bullying has many forms and is defined as using the internet, text messages, apps, and social networking sites to inflict harm on another. Many argue this form of bullying is worse than traditional bullying and is more stressful. Bullying is now not only occurring in school or on the playground but is coming home with students and following them throughout the day. Cyber bullying is hard to avoid and many times children may not know who their bully is. Cyber bullying has been

Cyberbullying effects children and teens more and more these days with the increasing social media sites available today. An estimated half of all US teens are affected today by cyberbullying. Cyberbully is when individuals use technology to harass, embarrass or cause harm to another. It only considered to be cyberbullying when young people preform theses acts. When harassment or embarrassment performed by adults it is labeled as cyber harassment. Adults can be held to legal consequences, but if a juvenile does this they are not held to legal consequences. The schools have red tape to dance around when it comes to cyberbullying. A school cannot take a student’s phone, and search though it and not have to deal with some legal consequence from

Countless people are going to say that there are no solutions to cyber bullying and that no matter how hard we try we cannot put a stop to every single case that is happening online or that cyber bullying is nothing compared to the old traditional bullying. In some ways they can be the same because they are both hurting other and different because on said directly to your face and the other is put up online for everyone to see. Cyber bullying being worse than traditional bullying is probably a fact with just how fast technology has been progressing over the years, but there are little things that can be done now to stop it from escalating so quickly. Like bullying on a schoolyard there can be some escape from it, but online the anonymous attacks

Technology has consumed our generation of children and adults alike, such luxuries such as cell phones and internet, have made our ways of communication much more convenient and accessible. Whether it be for pleasure,intimidation, or education our children are interracting more and more via the internet and social media accounts. This new media has created two new problems for students and teachers to deal with, cyber bullying and sexting. The biggest consequence is how to punish them. As people ourselves its argued how to decide what punishment is necessary, and whom exactly is capable enough of doing so. Yalda Uhls and Mathias H. Heck Jr take a more defined look at these issues and how we may or may not be able to reduce the impact it has on generation and future generations as well.

Let’s start off with drawing a fine line where harassment starts. Harassment is defined as, aggressive pressure or intimidation. Harassment starts usually when your contentment towards someone ends. While sitting behind a computer screen, it is easy to express this and seem powerful or intimidating.. Do you not know what you are doing to others though? Research studies show that, as of 2014, over half of young people report being cyber bullied. Everyday teenagers experience a form of cyberbullying, which can be defined as, the use of electronic communication to bully a person, typically by sending messages of an intimidating or threatening nature. Sounds a lot like harassment, does it not? All states across America should enforce laws and policies that do not tolerate cyberbullying or any form of online harassment, for cyberbullying is harassment. It will promote a safer internet environment for everyone.

My topic is on cyberbullying and how it is effecting our youth in schools today. Coming out of as a sophomore high school I had witnessed some bullying with my own eyes. Taking from that experience of not knowing what to do in that type of situation and environment, I would want to know how to make a difference. By gaining more knowledge of this topic it will help me push this information on to others. Hopefully making a difference in pushing my knowledge further will do the same for others. In order to gain this knowledge you need to ask question and my question are: What is the most effective way of stopping cyberbullying before it gets too much to handle? In a cyber-world what can be done to stay safe against harm? What type of stereotypical profile do cyberbullying victims and perpetrators have?

As technology constantly developing in recent days, the chance of getting cyber bullying has been increased as well. And this is because of accessibility to social media such as Facebook, Instragram and Twitter and widely spread of mobile phones. According to recent town newspaper ‘Cockatoo Rest News’, two teenage age suicides attributed to cyber bullying. In this report various section will be covered about cyber bulling. Since this report is aimed to increase awareness of cyber bullying and to prevent cyber bullying in Cockatoo rest, report will be focused to implement strategies to alleviate cyber bullying and to help teenage students who are suffering from cyber bullying. Moreover, health implications related to cyber bullying and action plans will be introduced.

What is bullying and cyberbullying? Traditional bullying is the act of treating someone aggressively through non-electronic ways including verbal bullying, physical bullying, and social bullying. Cyberbullying is the use of electronic communication to bully a person, usually by sending intimidating messages or threats. Research shows who’s been bullied, who’s bullied someone, ways on how to prevent bullying, and what causes bullying. Studies have also shown the psychological impact on cyberbullying.

We have all heard the phrase “sticks and stones may break my bones but words can never hurt me” on the playground or school bus ride home. The phrase was normally thrown out to bullies during a fight in the schoolyard, pushes in the hall, food thrown in the cafeteria, or during the endless teasing and taunting on bus rides to/from school.

Nowadays, bullying is very significantly topic in the world. Huge amounts of students have sacrificed bullying. According to the National Center for Education Statistic's research, over 5 million students who are 12 through 18 old has bullied in a school year in the United States. (Lessne and Yanez) The government has been doing a lot of measures such as enacting the anti-bullying law in each state and opening the website about bullying which runs by the federal government. They also have spent a huge amount of their budget; however, bullying does not show the sign of extinction. Bullying causes the national loss because bullying changes the victim’s life entirely, increases the risk of self-harming, raises the criminal rate, and spend a lot of money to solve bullying by the government.

Social media is a way a person can stay connected to the world by a click of a button. But with the privilege to have access to such advanced technology comes responsibility and those people who abuse the right and take advantage of others via social media. In today’s society cyber bullying is discussed in the realm of the action taking place and the effect that it has on a victim and how people can step in and make a change in the fight against bullying. Cyber bullying is using any electronic communication system to hurt, harm, or belittle someone in a threatening or shameful manner. This topic is of importance because this is very relevant for the teenage group. Discussing in details the death ratio resulting from being a victim of cyber bullying also finding actual stories of victims who have been through that nightmare of depression conveying the truth behind the horror. Bullying is a character killer, in order to raise awareness research equipped with professional insight and victim testimony will unveil the truths of this demon and show that web us is a privilege and people need not use and abuse it for self-entertainment disregarding people’s feelings. Cyber Bullying is all around the modern technological world and the little actions accumulate and the people of the community need to have the knowledge to react, counsel, and end bullying; speak up and stand up for what is right and just.

The younger generation is always on their phones and it has decreased their skill of communication which is a must need for the business world. In fact the Pew Research Center had found that 88% of people ages 18-29 use Facebook in 2016. That is a lot of people which can lead to some problems as mentioned before.

With the use of so many electronics and the need and use of social media. Cyber bullying has sky rocketed to the number one form of bullying ( Thompson & Cohen, 2014). In a quest to get tough on cyber bullying a number of schools around the world have begun to confiscate and inspect student’s electronic devices. In an attempt to help decrease the bullying. Cyber Bullying takes place 24 hours a day and 7 days a week ( Thompson & Cohen, 2014). With the suicide rate increasing the way it is due to the negative effects, many schools districts have adopted formal policies generally noted in student handbooks and online on the school websites which permits teachers and administrators to seize electronic communication devices and review their contents under certain situations. Clearly bullying is a problem regardless the age of the student and the type of school the student attends. It has a negative effect on the bully as well as the victim and it even impacts how children perform at school. The problem of bullying is so extensive it causes internal conflict for bystanders. Bullying is such a long-term cycle that it can influence the adult life which in turn perpetuates the cycle of abuse. Bullying is more prevalent among males than females and occurred with greater frequency among middle school youth than high school youth (Siris & Osterman, 2012). For males physical and verbal bullying were common and for female students verbal bullying and rumors were common.

The following literature review is all about how cyber bullying affects the life of the ones who got bullied, the chances of committing suicide among the victims and the laws in several states regarding cyber bullying.