Cyberbullying Is A Serious Problem

“What is cyberbullying?” you may be wondering. According to Dictionary.com, cyberbullying is “the act of harassing someone online by sending or posting mean messages, usually anonymously”.2 A strong example of cyberbullying would be a scenario in which someone at a school or place of work were to get a hold of someone’s phone number, and repeatedly send them mean or intimidating texts that cause them to become stressed, worried, angry, depressed, or even suicidal, overall having a significant negative effect on their work ethic. Another example of cyberbullying would be if someone were to take an embarrassing photo or video of a peer and spread it around through online social media, causing people to make fun of that person, or even bully them more, and overall resulting in significant negative effects on their daily life and reputation, and sometimes, in rare cases, suicide.

There are many social problems in the US and throughout the world today. One of the most significant of those problems is bullying (Macfarlane & McPherson, 2004). More than 160,000 children avoid school each day because they are concerned about being bullied or because they have been bullied and are too afraid to go to school (Macfarlane & McPherson, 2004). Cyberbullying - the use of a computer or other electronic device to bully someone - is also on the increase. That can be harder to avoid, and children have even taken their own lives because of the harassment. Nearly three million students are bullied through the internet every year (Macfarlane & McPherson, 2004). The number of children who are bullied gets larger each year, as does the number of children who bully others. There are many reasons children are bullied, and just as many reasons that children bully other children, but the main concern is how to stop the problem and keep all children safe.

In the 21st century technology has led to a new form of bullying, cyber bullying (Dhariff & Hoff, 2007). Over the past 30 years bullying have incremented rapidly worldwide, affecting people of all ages. Whether it’s done via the internet or the traditional way, bullying has always being around, affecting more than 200 million children worldwide (Kandersteg Declaration Against Bullying in Children and Youth, 2007). According to a research study conducted by Juvonen & Gross (2008) and Patchin & Hinduja (2009), cyber bullying and bullying are often interdepended (Beran & Li, 2007; Willard, 2007b.). Recent studies on cyber bullying showed that in every 10 Australian kids who were bullied online, 84% of them were also bullied in school (No Bullying, 2014). Bullying is referred to the repeated verbal, social,

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 has become the 21st century epidemic, a former school yard incident has been brought into the children’s home through the internet and social media sites. It has become impossible for people to avoid the verbal and emotional harassment. Cyber bullying primarily happens to school age children and cause serious psychological damage to the victims. Cyber bullying has a lot of the same motivators as the former school yard bullying, it is meant to ridicule and humiliate its victims. However, with the internet a person can hide their identity, assume someone else’s and provide confidence to our own self since face to face contact is not necessary.

Bullying has been going on for many years now, but recently there has been a change to how people bully one another; this change is called cyber bullying. This type of bullying is way more complex and difficult to prevent from happening, but by taking the right precautions you can stop this from happening or even prevent it from happening before it even starts. There are many different components to stopping it, but the two most key components are knowing the different types of cyberbullying and educating people about cyberbullied victims. For decades men, women, teens, and children have been bullied in some sort of way, but recently since the huge expansion of technology, there has been a new development of bullying; this is called cyber bullying. Cyberbullying is the use of some sort of technological device or social networking site to threaten, harass or even scare someone. This type of bullying is completely different from just regular bullying; according to an article Traditional Bullying vs Cyber Bullying (2013) by the Technology and Educational Reform “Cyberbullying is different from traditional bullying because people can use the disguise of “anonymity” to harass their victims”. This means people can anonymously bully someone without anyone knowing that it’s them harassing the victim, giving them an absolute free pass to do as they please and say whatever they want. If you are not familiar with cyberbullying, then you wouldn’t know there are hundreds of different

Bullying has always affected teens and children in some form or another, but in modern times, with the advent of the internet and social networking, we have the first generations of young people facing a much more insidious assailment: cyberbullying. It is one much stronger than what traditional bullying once was, and poses problems of greater magnitude. For victims, this fairly new entity of social aggression has them facing substantially greater intimidation and emotional harm. Several issues even arise in protecting these victims.

There is a lot of bullying that goes on in this world, a majority of it being cyberbullying. Cyberbullying is a constant problem with young kids on social media. Cyberbullying is a risk for anyone, “Cyberbullying is deliberately using digital media to communicate false, embarrassing, or hostile information about another person. It is the most common online risk for all teens and is a peer-to-peer risk” (AAP). Nonetheless, bullying is always going to happen and cyberbullying allows it to happen

Bullying is acknowledged a behavioral disorder, which has unfortunately affected so many people. Although the more common type of bullying is school bullying, which is categorized as school violence, there is also cyberbullying. Cyberbullying is as the word defines a type of bullying that takes place over the Internet. The Internet is not what it once was, a world where people just e-mailed one another or searched for research material. The Internet harbors constant cyberbullying, and it takes place over various kinds of websites, social media, chat rooms, so on and so forth. Bullying behavior doesn’t just remarkably switch towards a nice personality once a person gets on the Internet. Cyberbullying is an important concern that has been drawing more and more attention, however, the focus of this paper will be directed on school bullying.

Bullying is a major problem that has gradually gotten worser over the years. With technology evolving teens have taken bullying to a new level, by cyberbullying. Bullying is a way of verbally or physically harming someone else to try and seem superior. People who bully are very insecure about themselves so they chose to bully others in order to make themselves feel better. There are others ways that teens may use to bully such as cyberbullying. Cyber bulling is a form of harassment online through social media, email, and text messages. Cyberbullying presents a challenge because it can be done anouomusly so it may be hard to catch the person. In America, bullying is one of the greatest issues that we face and technology has only added to the problem by opening up other opportunities for bullying.

Cyber bullying includes acts of harassment, humiliation, or attacks on other people using information technology. The cyber bullies are interested in intimidating, controlling or manipulating their victims into conceding defeats, or carryout out specific illegal activities failure to which they will be humiliated. In most cases, cyber bullies seek to humiliate their targets publicly over the internet, or through cell phones and or web cams. Cyber bullies aim to humiliate their victims in the most awkward way and might use personal information such as messages, or pictures. These are sent online or as text messages to many people with the aim of exposing their victims and embarrassing them (Aisha 207-207).

Cyber-bullying is mainly powered by technology and as it expands, bullying becomes harder to notice and stop. Bullying over social media makes it easier for the attacker to get away with their harmful behavior. Although the Internet has kicked opened multiple doors to new possibilities in the

Throughout high school, we have all witnessed bullying. Some cases more severe than others. One well known way is through social network. This is called cyberbullying. Cyberbullying occurs when a minor is targeted in some form-- threatened humiliated, harassed-- by another, and it is not to be confused with cyber-stalking or cyber-harassment, which involves an adult. Not limited to the internet cyberbullying can spread by cell phones or other digital devices (Surdin, 2009). Cyberbullying has caused many disturbances within our society. Parent’s may not believe their children, or their children might not even tell their parents about the bullying that has been in progress, because of embarrassment.

For decades, physical bullying has been a consistent problem for young people attending school. Yet the growth of the Internet has redefined how students pick on one another. Cyber-bullying has become one of the most difficult issues to resolve in our society. Cyber-bullying can come in many forms. Cyber harassment, for example, refers to repeated hurtful emails, text messages or instant messages. Another form of cyberbullying is impersonation, in which cyber-bullies pretend to be their victims online in order to sully their victims ' reputations. Cyber denigration occurs when a cyber-bully spreads derogatory or untrue information about someone online, or digitally posts an embarrassing or altered photo or video of that person. (Prosecuting Cyberbullies) The bully can remain anonymous while behind a computer screen because many social media websites allow people to make up fake user ids and many bullies tend to give false information while registering for these sites. About 20% of more than 4,400 11–18-year-olds surveyed by the Cyberbullying Research Center in 2010 reported having been cyberbullied at some point in their lives. About 20% also admitted to having cyberbullied someone else. The survey found that cyber-bullying is a growing problem because of the increasing frequency with which students use the Internet and cell phones to do homework and socialize. (Prosecuting Cyberbullies) The person being bullied will feel alone, powerless, different,

Have you ever been bullied by someone you can not see? It is bad enough to know your enemy but having no control over who contacts you, and how, and when, can be a terrifying experience for many teens. Cyberbullying has become an epidemic in this country and is only now getting the attention it should. In completing research for this paper, I found out that cyber bullying takes many different forms. Cyberbullying can have many participants, not only the person/persons who start the bullying, but those who continue it. The purpose of this paper is to inform teens about what cyberbullying is and to help them prevent it from happening to them.