Online Harassment Is A Bigger Problem Than We All Think

What is cyberbullying? Cyberbullying is, “Writing hurtful statements on a social media site or website” according to “What is Cyberbullying?” published by the Ophelia Project. Regular bullying is usually face-to-face and usually ending with someone getting physically harmed. Cyberbullying is only hurting someone’s feelings not physically harming them. “If the child in question can’t handle... [their feelings getting

There are many different forms of bullying, such as physically bulling someone is when someone is hit, punched, pushed, or have their personal items stolen and any other kind of physical aggressive behaviour. Verbal bullying is when someone is called names, threatened. Social bullying is when someone is left out, deliberately ignored and has bad things spread about them and made to feel like an outsider, Psychological bullying is when someone is stalked or intimidated.

• Verbal Bullying: A child becomes a victim of bullying if they, or their loved ones, are subjected to ‘name calling’. Threats, of any kind, are also a form of verbal bullying.

Bullying has been going on for heavens know how long and unfortunately still goes on today. Another type of bullying is verbal which is making fun of someone by using words to bring that person down. It is calling someone names to make them feel inferior and sadly goes on a lot in the school environment.

These different types of bullying can have different effects on people as well. Physical bullying includes hitting, kicking, tripping, pinching and pushing or damaging property. Physical bullying can cause both short and long term damage. Verbal bullying includes name calling, insults, teasing, intimidation, homophobic or racist remarks, or verbal abuse. Verbal bullying usually doesn’t start off very harmful but can turn into something very harmful.

At the federal level, 18 U.S.C. § 875(c) makes cyber stalking and harassment a federal crime, punishable by up to five years in prison and/or a $250,000 fine. The federal statue said it’s unlawful to transmit any communication in interstate or foreign commerce containing a threat to injure the person of another. Additionally, Section 875(c) prohibits the actual transmission of a threat.

Physical bullying is a form of bullying where the bully uses physical strength to hurt his/her victim intentionally. Boys usually use this form of bullying. A real life example: A boy was bullied by another boy who attacked him many times and threatened him. He almost asphyxiated him once. However, his friends helped him and now he is not bullied anymore. (Seppe, n.d.)

I want to chime on the topic of cyber stalking and harassment. I think the reason for this behavior has been falsely labeled. I’m sure for as far back as we can remember; there has always been a bully or a stalker lurking around the corner. Honestly, people are just mean. The bible has stories about being bullied. For example Exodus chapter 1 shows Pharaoh and his men did the following to Israel: dealing shrewdly with them, keeping them as slaves, afflicting them with heavy burdens, making them build store cities, made their lives bitter with hard service and calling the midwives to kill all newborn boys, although the midwives declined the ordered. In the 1950’s rock and roll was believed to be the reason for bullying. Children Disney movies

There are all kinds of bullying like physical, cyber, verbal, social, sexual, and racial. Physical bullying is when people are physically hitting, kicking, pinching, biting, tripping, pushing etc. Cyberbullying is when someone talks about someone or threatens to do something to that person over a cellphone or over the internet. Verbal bullying is when someone talks about someone or threatens them either to their face or behind their back. Social bullying is when you use relationships to hurt someone like saying that you are going to make someone not to be friends

There are many types of bullying which is highly dependent on the nature of bullying. for example, the physical bullying may incorporate such behavior as hitting, pinching, kicking and any form of physical abuse considers physical bullying. The verbal bullying which incorporate spreading rumors, gossiping, insulting and teasing. Next which is the emotional bullying and this includes isolating and excluding other from the group. Finally, the cyber bullying which is another form of a violence practiced when online communication (Rai,2012). In addition, further elaboration for Physical bullying which happens when the bully practices physical aggression to force, threaten, or damage the sufferer. This is typically the easiest shape of

Many people do not realize how serious bullying has become. If you look at statistics suicides due to bullying have increased over just a few short years. This has become a very big problem for not only the victim but the bully as well as it affect both of them. School bullying is mentally destructive to not only the victims, but bullies because of the harmful words, harassment, and physical violence involved as well as the consequences for the bully.

“A new survey of 4,248 U.S. adults finds that 41% of Americans have been personally subjected to harassing behavior online” (Duggan, 2017). Online harassment and bullying can consist of offensive name calling, purposeful embarrassment, stalking, physical threats, and sexual harassment. What does online harassment look like? How prevalent is it? And, what can be done about it?

There are three types of bullying, verbal, social, and physical. Verbal bullying is bullying with words. For example, saying or writing mean things to others. This includes teasing, name-calling, taunting, and threatening to cause harm (Bullying). The next type of bullying is social bullying. Social bullying includes leaving someone out on purpose, telling other people not to be friends with someone, spreading rumors about that person, or even embarrassing someone in public (Bullying). Lastly, there is physical bullying, which includes hitting, kicking, pinching, spiting, tripping, pushing, taking and breaking

Nowadays, physical bullying is becoming a very serious and detrimental problem. Not only does physical bullying scar the person emotionally, but it can also scar them physically. There are different mediums of physical bullying such as; physical threats, pushing, shoving, and assaults that can cause serious injury. There is some controversy

Verbal Bullying is the most common because it is not as easily noticed as physical is. Talk about how horrible this is! Think if you were the target or the person that got bullied!