Cyber Bullying And Its Effects

School has finally begun and the vacation is out of the way. But how about the bullies and the concerned victims? Unlike current pupils in today 's society, bullied/cyberbullied victims will never receive a break. As kids we’d say 'Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt Me. ' But in today 's society? It could possibly too hard to cope with these words, specifically bullied victims.

Bullying is generally defined as any deliberate act of aggression towards another person with the intentions of causing harm or suffering. Cyber bullying can be termed as the use of electronic communications (e-mail, text messages, instant messaging, social media, etc.) in which to humiliate, intimidate, threaten, or harass others and is often done anonymously. Though it as not as prevalent as “traditional bullying”, it has become a much more popular version of bullying because of the convenience of anonymity and the fact that it can be done any time of the day or night and anywhere.

Cyber bullying is the use of electronic communication to bully a person, typically by sending messages of an intimidating or threatening nature. The cell phone is the most common platform for bullying.

“Cyber-bullying is the use of technology to harass, threaten, embarrass, or target another person(Media).” It can happen anywhere there is access to internet. Cyber-bullying usually

It is important to understand that technology has been the main source for these bullies to go from traditional bullying to cyber-bullying. Today, there is a significant changed because now teenagers own a device and have easy access to the use of technology. According to the Family Community Health (Kiriakidis & Kavoura, Volume 33, 2010) it is stated, “these methods of communication cannot always be monitored by parents who may not be as capable as their children in using information technology.” Technology has improved on many aspects over the last decade because before not many teenagers owned a phone nor did had easy access to the Internet. Teenagers have been known to be the victims of others to any type of harassment; through social media sources such as Facebook, Snap chat, Instagram and Twitter. The easy access of Internet has been the main reason in why this issue has evolved over the last two decades. According to the Universal Journal of Educational Research (Notar, Padgett, Roden Volume 1, 2011) “more than 97% of youths in the United States are connected to the Internet in some way. The number of children and teens who use the Internet at home is rapidly growing, with now over 66% of fourth to ninth graders able to go online from the comfort of their bedrooms.” It is clear that technology amongst teenagers and children has escalated tremendously over the last decade. The types of cyber bullying are harassment, flaming, exclusion, outing and masquerading. The easy

Bullying in schools has become antiquated. It seems that cyberbullying has emerged as the latest phenomenon among children and adults. Cyberbullying, in Layman's terms. is the use of electronic communication to bully and harass a person, typically by sending messages of an intimidating or threatening nature. Cyberbullying has been running rampant over the past few years with no immediate end in sight. The continuing rise of popularity of World Wide Web and social media such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, has played a key role in the development of cyberbullying.

Cyber bullying is a new form of bullying in which technology is used as a tool to bully someone from a device, most commonly via social media. Over the past ten years it has grown to be the center of media attention as more and more children are falling victim to this cyber assault. The traditional form of face-to-face bullying is now being replaced with the use of cellphones as the tool for name-calling, teasing, and intimidation. This could be anything from mean comments on a photo to websites being created solely for the purpose of making fun of an individual. While it occurs less often than traditional bullying, up to 70% of students in the United States have reported experiencing cyber bullying (Mark 2011: 93).

Cyber bullying refers to the act of bullying through technological means, including cell phones and the internet, and is often anonymous (Cyberbullying). Cyber bullying is used to spread mean and embarrassing information about someone, including messages, pictures, and videos (Cyberbullying). Cyber bullying can include repeated attempts of unwanted contact, sending emails, sending threats, making sexual remarks, using “offensive language”, “posting humiliating [content]”, and “spreading rumors about the victim.”

Cyber bullying is bullying that take place using electronic devices like cellphones,laptop,computer and so on and as well as like communation tool like social media,messages or even chat.

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.

Currently there are several formats of bullying in the society. Bullying is repeated verbal, physical, social or psychological behaviour that is harmful and involves the misuse of power by an individual or group towards one or more persons. (NSW Public Schools, n.d.) "Cyber bullying" is that bullying that uses electronic devices such as mobile phones and laptops or Internet to intentionally harass people or being aggressive with verbal abuse. Most of cyber bullying occurs through messages, SNS (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter) and random chatting sites. And the reason is because in Internet or website,

Cyberbullying is a new type of bullying that has developed through the use of technology. Cyberbullying has been defined as “... intentional and repeated harm inflicted on people through the use of computers, cellular telephones, and other electronic devices” (Funk & Wagnalls). A problem with this definition is that the bully can claim that they had no intention of harming the victim. Even if the harassment is repeated, the bully could just be joking and unknowingly causing harm to the victim.

Conventional bullying can be limited by matters such as one's physical power and the distance between the respective individual and the victims that he is interested in persecuting. However, the digital age made matters easier by providing almost anyone in possession of a cell phone or a computer with the ability to put his or her terrorizing attitudes into practice. In order to understand what cyberbullying is, people need to have a proper understanding of traditional bullying. "Name-calling, shoving, tripping, kicking, spitting, knocking books out of a classmate's hands, making threats, fistfights, hang-up phone calls, threatening messages, bad-mouthing, spreading malicious gossip, and excluding people from peer groups as social

Cyber bullying is the use of the electronic devices to bully a person, typically by sending messages of an intimidating or threatening nature. It also involves the use of communication tools such as text messages, social media sites, websites and chats, (Nancy, 2007). Our youth may not have the experience or education of the consequences bullying can have, this can lead to serious concerns of getting into danger and suffering as they mature throughout their life.

With the fast growing advancements in technology, people in all age-groups, whether young or old, are hooked on with these emerging technologies. The use of internet is prevalent showing its global consumption. Social media have been available even to the young population. They are effective means of communication, socialization, and in collecting and sharing information. However, internet is becoming unsafe and hostile. They do not just serve its real purpose; instead they become effective means for bullies to perform offences or harmful activities anonymously (Davison & Stein, 2014). Internet-related abuses and cyber bullying has long been a concern of schools and universities, the government and the whole community. Efforts have been put forward to combat cyber bullying that includes prevention programs at the community, school, and family levels. Nowadays, it is not strange to hear or encounter incidences of internet abuses and cyber bullying. Spending too much time, inappropriate use of the internet and with the introduction of social networks, people became more vulnerable to any of those internet-related abuses and cyber bullying (Australia Counselling, 2013).