Cyber Bullying

Did you know that females are more likely to be cyberbullied, compared to girls? Most people, nowadays, have access to the internet, which makes it easier people to cyberbully others. Only 15.1% of British teachers have been a victim of cyberbullying, with the other 84.9% not being a victim. An assistant Secretary of Civil Rights has noticed that there are many forms of harassment. Schools should take more action when it comes to any type of bullying off school grounds. This is making people wonder if schools should be more restrictive to the student’s online speech freedom.

Bullying is seen and unseen, noticed by others and unnoticed, it’s a problem not just in our little communities, towns, cities or states but all over our country, bullying is a worldwide problem. As the internet has roared up so has forms of bullying throughout the web. Cyber bullying has become a problem that has never been thought of before. Although it is less physical than traditional forms of bullying, it can have more devastating and longer-lasting effects. It is rapidly becoming a major problem. Now, a small physically weak child can be as much of a bully as the big brute but with more impact. Educators definitely need to understand how powerful and dangerous this new type of bullying has become as it has greatly impacted the classroom.

Bullying is a real problem in today’s world and it needs to be stopped. Even though bullying appears many times in the Glass Castle, unfortunately it happens in social media, home, sports teams, and the list goes on and on. Cyber bullying is a real issue in today’s world. According

So you’ve been staring at an electronic screen for weeks, all day. People taking advantage of technology cause cyber bullying. Excessive technology, especially causes negative health effects and a lack of thought. Too much technology affects you terribly. Most importantly, numerous people get cyber bullied online.

Traditional bullying used to be more common back when there was no texting or social media. Bullying consistently takes place in person: the common actions often include teasing, taunting, humiliating, and sometimes showing acts of violence. Cyberbullying takes place online making it more humiliating and intolerable for the victim since the information doesn’t go away. They both equally cause the victim emotional distress and significantly lower their confidence while the bully feels more authoritative and quite satisfied. While the fear of getting bullied grows in the victim, they start to feel unsafe and decide not to go to school. All the students deserve to attend school without the fear of getting humiliated, harassed, or bullied, but what are the bystanders and teachers doing about bullying?

…it is often easier to be cruel using technology because cyberbullying can be done from a physically distant location, and the bully doesn 't have to see the immediate response by the target. In fact, some teens simply might not recognize the serious harm they are causing because they are sheltered from the victim 's response (par. 6)

However, there are some similarities as to why an individual would bully someone else online. Few of the reasons may include power, entertainment or control (Child Refuge, 2011). Conclusion can be made just from these reasons. Life as a teenager in high school can be very challenging. The bar is set high for these students because of high expectations from them or their parents. When children are bored, or lack the attention from their parents they seek entertainment which makes them more likely to become cyberbullies (Child Refuge, 2011). These individuals acquire control and power through humiliating their victims by harassing them or even putting fear to these helpless people through threats (Child Refuge, 2011). For those victims who were bullied, now realize it’s their time to shine and take the roll of being the bully.

While this technology held out the promise of a new era for interconnectedness, information sharing and education, it also came with a dark underbelly, as bigots and anti-Semites found it a useful tool for propagating hatred. The web sites they created have evolved over time and with the technology, yet they continue to be a very effective tool for spreading hatred, giving the bigots the ability to reach a potential audience of millions. Now, this ability to spread hateful sentiments electronically has reached new dimensions. It has taken on new life in the form of cyber bullying, or the ability to use (and abuse) the fairly new technologies of instant messaging, cell phones, texting, and online social networking to harass and intimidate. Nowhere has this new form of bullying been more prevalent than in middle and high schools. After all, it is teenage students who are most facile with these new technologies and who are most likely to employ them in a group social setting, such as school or camp. Indeed, the Internet, cell phones and other technological paraphernalia play a central role in the social lives of nearly all adolescents. While much of their online activity may be harmless enough, it has also provided an opening for would-be schoolyard bullies to spread innuendo, falsehoods and slander to dozens, even hundreds, of classmates with the touch of a button or click of a mouse. The real-world consequences of cyber bullying have been widely

Kids get bullied most every day. Most young women get harassed online by other students. People may ask what cyberbullying is. Well cyberbullying is where they use technology to harass and target one another. Girls have a higher risk for online harassment. Boys are more likely to be bullied offline. Cyberbullying is a serious crime in the United States. If any teacher or principle finds out that your harassing anybody then they can be suspended from school and kick out from any sports. All bully’s come from any social media. While bullying others on the internet, bulls would create a blog or a website. Then they would threaten teens by images they would have sent them. They would send them though text,

Have you ever been cyber bullied before? Your answer would probably be no or I got a mean comment once. In the United States of America cyber bullying is not as much as a problem as we might think it to be, not to say that it doesn’t not go on but its overhyped and some don’t use the term “Bullying” correctly. To define bullying I will use https://www.stopbullying.gov/what-is-bullying/definition/index.html to define the term.

Chances are most of us have been bullied and also bullied someone else and if it happened or we did it online it was cyber bullying. As with other types of bullying many bullies have been bullied themselves.

First, traditional bullying is more common than cyber bullying. According to Traditional Forms of Bullying Remain a More Prevalent and Serious Problem, Susan M. Swearer states, “In a recent survey of more than 40,000 U.S. high school students conducted by the Josephson Institute, which focuses on ethics, 47 percent said they were bullied in the last year. But, according to the 2007 book “Cyber Bullying,” as few as 10 percent of bullying victims are cyber-bullied. Meanwhile, a study of

ABOUT THREE YEARS AGO I SAW A STORY ON THE NEWS THAT REALLY CAUGHT MY ATTENTION. IT WAS THE STORY OF MEAGAN MEIER, AND EIGHT GRADER IN O’FALLON MISSOURI. ALTHOUGH SHE WAS DESCRIBED BY HER PARENTS AS A BUBBLY GOOFY GIRL WHO ENJOYED SPENDING TIME WITH HER FRIENDS AND FAMILY, SINCE THE THIRD GRADE MEAGAN HAD BEEN SEEING A PSYCHIATRIST AND TAKING MEDICATIONS FOR ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER AND DEPRESSION AND SHE ALSO CONSIDERED HERSELF OVERWEIGHT. IN 2006, SHORTLY AFTER MEAGAN HAD FALLEN OUT WITH A FRIEND FOR ALLEGEDLY SPREADING RUMORS ABOUT THIS FRIEND LORI DREW, THE MOTHER OF THIS FORMER FRIEND ALONG WITH HER DAUGHTER AND A CO-WORKER, DECIDED TO MAKE A FAKE MYSPACE ACCOUNT ASSUMED TO BE THE ACCOUNT OF A 16 YEAR OLD BOY NAMED JOSH EVANS. TO

With today’s technology bullying has become easier then ever; the children and youth of this generation do not even need to have personal confrontation. Cyber bullying can be defined as any communication posted or sent by a minor online, by instant messenger, e-mail, website, diary site, online profile, interactive game, handheld device, cell phone or other interactive device that is intended to frighten, embarrass, harass or otherwise target another minor. Cyber bullying is disturbingly common among Canadian teens. Cyber-Bullying: Our Kids’ New Reality is a survey that was conducted from December 2006 – January 2007 by the members of Kids Help Phone that had over 2500 respondents. More than 70 per cent 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).