Cyberbullying Is Becoming More Of A Problem Than Traditional Bullying

According to surveys, traditional bullying has been declining for years across our country, but unfortunately the act of cyberbullying has become more common. Most of the individuals involved with this activity seem to be girls. Cyberbullying is much more severe than bullying in schools because when the children return home from school they can leave the conflict behind them, but when the bullying involves the internet they lose that feeling of safety and comfort at home. When someone is being bullied online, it can be seen by other kids from all over the world in a very short time. It is also more severe because the cyberbully victims are constantly being harassed by the hateful posts and comments all the time, whenever they get notification on their phone, computer, or any other electronic

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.

Cyberbullying is the use of electronic communication to bully a person, typically by sending messages in an threatening nature or tearing down an individuals character based on religion, gender, ethnicity, or disability. In terms of effects overall, cyberbullying has increased the use of communication via technology and has become more common among teenagers (Cabral 3). Technology has made it easy for bullies to find individuals via social media in the privacy of their on own homes., which has allowed them to express how they feel anonomously. This has become an issue that is occurring more and more in High Schools and Middle Schools across America. One of the biggest discussions when dealing with bullying and cyber-bullying would be how do we stop this epidemic to save the soul of our youth? Education is key, we have to educate one another on the effects of bullying to know that this is real and affects so many people to this day. Much of cyberbullying is the

Cyberbullying has been on the rise in the past years because of the rise in the usage of social media. People tend to go to social media with positive intentions, but not everyone’s intentions are positive. Social media can bring what usually takes place at school to the household. For bullies, cyberbullying requires less physical contact and their bullying

“Cyberbullying is reported as an aggressive, intentional act distributed by an individual or group, using contact in an electronic medium, continuously and relentlessly against someone who cannot stand up for himself or herself easily”(Davison & Stein, 2014) With social media being so popular, bullies now have many avenues in which they can attack their victims, research shows that adolescents spend up to 17 hours a week on the internet, some children even up to 40hrs a week. (Davison & Stein, 2014) This is an

These days bullying isn’t just taking place at school on the playground, or in the hallways, it is taking place online. Today, and in recent years kids and young teens will only face more and more bullying as things evolve with social media, things like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram are only going to become increasingly popular and new platforms will be made as well. Bullying affects people so much that it can

Compared to the affects associated with the bully, cyberbullying has a greater impact on the victim. Victims try to withstand the online harassment, so their parents will not take away their means of socialization (Klein 21). According to the National Crime Prevention Center, more than 40 percent of all teenagers with Internet access have been reported being bullied online (99). As technology develops, the younger generation is inclined to stay connected through social media. Many students have different accounts and applications on their smartphones to socialize. Although social media can be a useful way to be in contact with peers, it also is

Cyberbullying includes insulting comments, gossip, pictures, videos, and embarrassing information. People using the internet can either be a victim or the one bullying. The most common social media that has experienced a lot of cyberbullying is Facebook. Almost half of social media users have witnessed cyberbullying online. Victims don't report being bullied because they either feel shamed or scared. Parents should pay more attention to their children social media, talk to them about cyberbullying, and have open communication with their children. Also, parents should know that they are signs of cyberbullying such as skipping meals, headaches, depressed , talking about suicide, less sleep and loss of

Cyber bullying has increased since social media usage has gone up. Cyber bullying has no way of coming to an end. Kids do not have a place to go when they are being cyber bullied because social media is always around and some think that the only way to stop the bullying is suicid. “boys who were both bullies and victims of bullying had a higher likelihood of suicidal behavior as compared with those who did not exhibit bullying behaviors or who were only victims. For the girls, there was a different effect of bullying; girls who were victims of bullying were more likely to exhibit suicidal behaviors as compared to those who were neither bullies nor victims” (Campbell, Marilyn A). Cyber bullying is relentless and there is only so much some can take. They make movies about cyber bullying, the movie on Netflix called cyber bullying it highlighted what it was like to go weeks on end being bullied on social media was like and how the lead character had no way of stopping what was happening. Society has let this happen and has a front row seat to what is happening. During an interview a girl talked about how she had a friend that was cyber bullied during high school and that she went through a lot throughout the time it happened. She had to go to therapy overcome what had happened to her. These are the outcomes of cyber

Bullying is everywhere and with the recent stories about the most violent cases it is becoming so public, a new major issue has been found for in our nation. The tolls of years of bullying are effectively pushing victims into two corners. The victims either seek out help and fight back or fall in deeper and resort to self harm. Whatever it maybe be, it's everywhere. Bullying has found a new home on the internet. Cyberbullying is so common in today's society. Teenagers spend most of their time on social media sites and those sites are perfect for potential cyber bullying. One in ten teens go to parents for help when cyberbullying is involved.

Bullying has always been a hot-button topic, but due to the Internet this has become an even larger problem. "With an estimated 45 million children between the ages of 10 and 17 in the U.S. alone using the Internet every day, social interactions have increasingly moved from personal contact in the school room to virtual contact in the chat room, and Internet bullying has emerged as a new and growing form of social cruelty" (Williams & Guerra, 2007). With the rise of social media also came the rise of cyber bullying. Before the Internet, most bullying occurred only at schools or the workplace. Once the individual who was being bullied left the school or the workplace they were free from the bullying for the rest

Cyber bullying is a subject that is usually over looked which seems very foolish. The amount of unnecessary comments floating around over social media is very disappointing to me because I have witnessed how negative of an effect it can have on a life. The awareness of cyber bullying needs to be spread before another innocent life is

Bullying, according to Oxford Dictionary, is the use of “superior strength or influence to intimidate, typically to force someone to do what one wants.” Growing up, the only bullying that I have witnessed is on the television. The majority of people perceive a bully as a tough boy threatening another for his lunch money, but times have changed in unison with technology evolving. One of the overwhelmingly popular uses of the internet is to contact friends and relatives by posting pictures and sending comments on social media websites. For example, according to Jay Baer, a social media researcher, “56% of Americans have a profile on a social networking site”. The outcomes of these sites when used appropriately are enjoyable, but for children ages ten to eighteen, cyber bullying is a frequent activity through the sites. Social media websites need filters to decrease cyber bullying since young users have no remote understanding of the unsafe environment and of the depth the effects cyber bullying has on their victims, as well as themselves.

Facebook and other social media platforms have brought communication across the world to a whole new level. The rise of social media has created a place for children to communicate with others in both a positive and negative manner. Although it has made a positive impact on American youth, it has also contributed and exacerbated bullying in our schools. This new form of bullying, often referred to as cyberbullying, has created an around-the-clock atmosphere where bullying can occur even when school is not in session. Many professionals have sought to address the negative aspects of social media and have worked to develop a solution to bring cyberbullying to an end.

If a child is on social media bullying can follow them everywhere, they get picked on in school, then go home and read it on the internet. Because of bullying, it is stated in the Center for Disease Control’s (CDC) Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance: 2013 report, an average across 39 states survey, 7.2 percent of students miss school because of personal safety concerns. Around 28 percent of kids 12 through 18 say they have been bullied at school, according to the Indicators of School Crime and Safety: 2013 report. While bullying has been around forever, cyberbullying has been on the rise in the last decade. According to a report by the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance, from the Centers for Disease Control, 14.8 percent of student’s report being cyberbullied, by e-mail, chat rooms, instant messengers, websites, and texting. In the 2011 Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance Survey 16 percent of high school students were electronically bullied in the past year.