Essay On Cyberbullying

Is cyberbullying an old problem with a new disguise? Bullying in the real world has been around for a seemingly endless amount of time. Due to the rise of technology in society today, bullying in the cyber world, also known as cyberbullying, has erupted. Cyberbullying can be defined as using technology, such as the Internet, social media, and text messages, to harass, threaten, embarrass, or target another person (Hirsch). According to 11 Facts About Cyberbullying, nearly eighty-three percent of teens believe bullying online is easier to get away with than bullying in person. This shows that cyberbullies use online networks to camouflage themselves from reality. Cyberbullying is emotionally abusive to the victim’s mental health because the scars imprinted from the cruel remarks sent through text messages and posted throughout social media are bound to forever impact one's life.

Typically, the person that is doing the cyberbullying is generally a victim of bullying themselves. How is cyberbullying done? Normally, the use of electronic devices to send messages that tend to emotional hurt someone feelings. Social media can lead to many negative outcomes when communicating to others. For example, if a teenage boy responds on a girl’s photo stating she is “ugly” is considered online bullying. One popular social media site is Facebook that over millions of people use for communicating. Facebook can be a positive source to communicate with family and friends that you may not see often. Also, it can be a very negative source that a lot of people use to criticize one another. Therefore, cyberbullying occurs nationwide

“20% of youth between ages 11-18 have been a victim of cyberbullying.” states “What is cyberbullying” Each year, many people are cyberbullied. This can lead to physical and mental harm, can affect everyone, and is not being reported as much as it should be. Cyberbullies should be prosecuted for these harmful actions.

In 2014, the Center for Disease Control (CDC) did a study on bullying and the found that 19.4% of all the students interviewed had been bullied at school. This may not seem very surprising, bullying has been going on for decades. Generations of men and women have come to fear the people who walk the halls, stealing lunch money from those weaker than them. However, it is interesting to note that 14.8% of that 19.4% had reported being cyber bullied. Unlike the standard physical bullying, cyberbullying is a slightly more recent development, but it has evolved to become much more deadly. It gives bullies a better tool for creating more widespread pain. The awareness for cyber bullying needs to increase and ultimately, cyberbullying needs to be abolished completely due to its destructive capabilities.

Cyberbullying is one of the many factors for a teen to commit suicide. Cyberbullying is the use of the internet to send harm to another person. It is a way of bullying that happens anonymously through the internet. “While cyberbullying alone is not likely to lead to youth suicide, it may worsen feelings of hopelessness in adolescents struggling with stress in their lives” (Hinduja, Sameer, and Patchin). Cyberbullying can easily be started by just making fun of someone and continuing to something more serious. People think that making a joke online is funny, but little do they know it can really affect someone. As teens, we do not fully think before typing something online and what seems like no big deal to someone, can be a breaking point for someone else. There are many movies that talk about cyberbullying and it is suppose to spread awareness about this kind of bullying. When cyberbullying became a big deal, everyone started doing something to stop it, and it is still around today but not many people are paying attention to it anymore. Most likely the suspect will harass and will continue harassing the victim till they have reached their breaking point. People bully online to make other’s feel less then they really are (Phillips). They may use hurtful words or even just

Michael M. Honda states that “everyone in America likely has a bullying story, whether as a victim, bully, or as a witness.” Cyberbullying has become a major epidemic in the modern day world because everyone has access to the internet in some way. By taking an in depth look at cyberbullying, one can see just how urgent it is to stop it, because not only can it strike anywhere at any time, cyberbullying can also lead to suicide and cause serious mental health issues.

“Statistics on cyberbullying include: Nearly 43% of kids have been bullied online; seventy percent of students’ report seeing frequent bullying online; sixty-eight percent of teens agree that cyberbullying is a serious problem; eighty-one percent of young people believe bullying online is easier to get away with than bullying in person; ninety percent of teens who have seen social-media bullying say they have ignored it; only one in 10 victims will inform a parent or trusted adult of their abuse; girls are about twice as likely as boys to be victims and perpetrators of cyberbullying; nearly 58% of kids admit someone has said mean or hurtful things to them online; bullying victims are two to nine times more likely to consider committing suicide; furthermore about 75% of students admit they have visited a website bashing another

Cyberbullying is a problem that has only come to light in the last few years. It has many different effects on people; it can cause depression, suicidal thoughts and actions, and effects the way students do in school. Cyberbullying is one of the top leading causes of suicide in teens and young adults (Swearer). Cyberbullying is a major problem that this country needs to get under control because it is leading to self-harm and suicide in teens and young adults. It causes an unsafe learning environment, and the victim cannot get away from the bullying because the attackers stalk them through social media accounts and their cell phones. So, how does

Cyberbullying is just one of the many forms of bullying that can occur and unfortunately, it continues to occur in ever-growing amounts. In this generation, the internet is so easily accessible that no one can prevent themselves from potentially being entrapped by the heinous claws of cyberbullying. Since cyberbullying can reach so many people, it can also bring the detrimental effects along with it. Mental illness, self-harm, and suicide are just a few of the effects that can happen to a person being cyberbullied. Most of the time these effects can be prevented by the intervention of schools, friends, or loved ones. Most cyberbullying incidents happen to students and in most cases, schools are unable to take any form of action. People, especially young Americans should speak up and take action against cyberbullying. They must voice their concerns and make schools be required to intervene in cyberbullying matters that occur off campus, because it can affect them, their friends, or others around

Eighty-one percent of minors say that cyberbullying is easier to get away with than regular bullying. Of the kids who are cyberbullied, twenty percent of them think about committing suicide. One in ten go through with it. Suicide is the third leading reason of death in the United States and seventy percent of school students have reported seeing usual cyberbullying. Another nearly seventy percent of teens say that cyberbullying is a big problem and a little over seventy percent of teenagers say they have been to a site where they seen others being harassed. From ages thirteen to seventeen, more than forty percent of teens say they had been cyberbullied in just that past year.

What is cyberbullying? Cyberbullying is checking your social media only to find out someone is sending hateful message, or finding out someone made a hate account for you. It is hurtful and can cause multiple illnesses. It can make you consider suicide and much more. Cyberbullying can go so far to make a child, or teen,commit suicide , and what is the difference between killing someone or leading someone to kill themselves? There's no difference, because in the end, it is still you that's behind the death of the victim. That's why I believe people should be prosecuted for statements made in social media, to a certain extent.

Bullying is the buzzword of education in the early 21st century. It 's new, it 's hot, it 's everywhere from CNN to church homilies. Cyberbullying is considered an especially sexy topic, and is blasted across just about every television channel, social networking site, message board, and education manual. It is so overstated that its mention has become like the white noise of a refrigerator humming in the background of our existence. With as much saturation as it has in the media, it is easy to give cyberbullying an eye-rolling dismissal. However, that would be a mistake. Although cyberbullying might suffer from being numbingly overstated, it is not overrated, and should be taken very seriously.

Cyberbullying has become extremely detrimental as social media and the internet have become more and more popular. People use the internet to viciously attack others from behind a screen. They sometimes even do it anonymously which can be more hurtful for the victims who do not know who their attacker is. Bullies often consider cyberbullying to be harmless and don’t realize that they can still get caught. Just like other types of bullying, many people notice it but never say anything and the victims never speak up about being bullied. The cyberbullying does not go unnoticed, however it usually goes unspoken about. Cyberbullying victims often feel trapped because it not only happens at school but it follows them home. They are often afraid to speak up against the person who is bullying them. This results in the victims having psychology problems and may even result in suicide. Cyberbullying affects many people throughout the United States each year, and ultimately, laws should be implemented against cyberbullying in order to protect children and even adults from the emotional effects that it can cause.

Cyberbullying has only gotten worse with time. It went from slick remarks which can also be referred to as trolling to sending hate emails, revealing private messages without consent, taking embarrassing photos and posting them on the internet to now setting up and exposing live streams of a private intimate moments between two people. According to Liam Hackett’s Annual Bullying Survey, in the United Kingdom 7 out of 10 people, ages 13 to 22 have reported being cyber bullied. Of which 20% have reported it being extreme and 37% have reported it being frequent. In the United States over 50% of adolescents and teenagers have been cyber bullied or have

While cyberbullying affects each child differently, there has been a clear correlation between victims and non-victims and their self-esteem. In one study, bullied victims had less self-esteem than those who were not bullied online. Additionally, it was reported that victims of cyberbullying were thirty percent more likely to think about committing suicide (Cyberbullying Research Center, 2012). With the lack of parent supervision, it was found that those who spent more than three hours per school day on social networks were 110% more at risk to be a cyberbully victim as compared those who do not spend as much time online (Gilkerson, 2012). What may be worse is the fact that majority of those bullied online do not tell their parents or an adult about what occurred. Despite the fact that most adolescents state that bullying occurs more offline then online, cyberbullying is still a real and large threat to the youth of America (Lenhart, 2007).