Social Media Bullying And Cyberbullying

Cyberbullying is a relatively new threat, and it is very similar to traditional bullying. Despite the fact that cyberbullying and traditional bullying both share the common goal of harassment, cyberbullying differs from traditional bullying in that it does not stop at the schoolyard, and can continue when the victim is far away from the aggressor. It is just as devastating as common bullying, and sometimes is even more damaging. Professors Sameer Hinduja and Justin W. Patchin note in their journal, “Cyberbullying Creates Dangerous Stress and Anxiety”, that cyberbullying affects anywhere between 10-40% of students (contingent on their age group) (par. 1). J.D. Kelly A. Albin, in her article “Bullies in a Wired World”, defines cyberbullying as “…the ‘willful and repeated harm inflicted through use of computers, cell phones, and other electronic devices’” (157). It is caused by the fact that children feel their actions are mitigated when they use social media, as it creates the illusion of indirectness, and its effects range anywhere from mild depression to suicide.

Social bullying includes lying or spreading rumors, negative gestures or looks, playing harmful or inappropriate jokes, mimicking, excluding people, or damaging someone’s reputation. Cyber bullying includes abusive or hurtful emails, texts, posts, images, or videos, intentionally excluding others online, gossip or rumors, imitating others online or using accounts of others without permission. The statistics of bullying. Nearly 30

In recent years the problematic circumstances of bullying has been brought to attention as a widespread problem. Most bullying takes place on school grounds and outside school grounds, affecting numerous students. Bullying is any unwanted aggressive behaviors of youths or groups of youth who are not current dating partners or siblings that involves a perceived or observed power of imbalance and is repeated multiple times or is highly likely to be repeated. Aggression such as name calling, hitting, tripping, purposely leaving out of the group, and rumor spreading may be considered as bullying. Bullying through technology, also known as cyberbullying is a form of bullying that occurs through chat rooms, instant messaging, e-mail, text messaging, pictures, and websites.

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

Bullying can be found almost everywhere; in homes, on the internet, and especially in schools. Students of lesser abilities or non-conformists can essentially be main targets; however, anyone is vulnerable to a bully’s wrath. Although the common lunch thief threat has been the general association with the word bully, that term has unfortunately evolved and become apart of the violent side of our culture today. All too often students feel the need to “disappear” or escape leading to destructive decisions such as suicide, substance abuse, or depression (Kowalski 6). Today the causes of bullying are involved with social differences such as sexual orientation, physical appearance, ethnicity, or insecurities. For the past few years bullying has gradually increased in the US, and of course worldwide because of the internet’s growing diverse locations and servers. Statistics show that “A total of 29.9% of the sample reported moderate or frequent involvement in bullying, as a bully (13.3%), one who was bullied (10.6%), or both (6.3%)” (NIH Public Access). Forms of bullying include through a computer screen also known as cyberbullying and through physical confrontation leading students to experience symptoms of depression which could also provoke deeper personal issues. Cyberbullying has come across society through social media sites as well as personal opinion. Children are now breaking the norm of traditional confrontation and dunking heads in toilets

Social media can be a platform where you interact and have fun with friends,or get picked on and stalked by adults. Bullying is a serious problem in the U.S.Because of social media people do not have to be face to face to talk. They feel they can say anything and get away with it.This is called cyber bullying when you bully someone over the internet (Social). If you put abusive posts on someones pictures that can be looked at as bullying (Social).

With the increase of children having their own cell phones, tablets, and other internet-accessible technology, so increases the rates of cyberbullying. In the foreword of Cyberbullying: Bullying of the Digital Age., a letter written by the father of a teen who committed suicide after months of being cyberbullied shows how unpredictable and heart-wrenching the effects of cyberbullying can be. In an excerpt from the letter. John Halligan, father of bullied teen Ryan Halligan, says “October 7, 2003 will always be the day that divides my life. Before that day, my son Ryan was alive. A sweet, gentle, and lanky 13-year old fumbling his way through early adolescence and trying to establish his place in the often confusing and difficult social world of middle school. After that day, my son would be gone forever. A death by suicide. Some would call it bullycide or even cyberbullycide. I just call it a huge hole in my heart that will never heal.” The main article expresses pathos for victims of cyberbullying- who are not just the targeted victim but the family left behind struggling to cope with the loss and their attempts to change the way the cyberbullying is dealt with.

Modern day bullying consists of cyberbullying and in person bullying. Cyberbullying, also known as social media bullying or text bullying is the most common form of bullying today. It consists of people insulting or making fun of each other online. This form of bullying is most dangerous because nobody can see the harm that is being caused over the internet. They say whatever they want when the victims can't defend themselves.

Social media is destroying today's kids because of cyberbullying! Cyberbullying is bullying that takes place using electronic technology such as cell phones, computers, etc. Mostly on social media sites. When it comes to cyber-bullying, they are often motivated by anger, revenge or frustration. Sometimes they do it for entertainment or because they are bored.

Picturing a macho teen boy, probably a jock, towering over the puny, nerd boy and threatening to take his lunch money is not at all what bullying is. Bullying can be threats, name-calling, exclusion of certain people, and the victim is made to feel low. Today, acting against bullying has become prevalent in schools and in the media. However, with social media, bullying has become that much easier. It gives the bully a sense of protection. In seconds, a person can make a fake social media account, posing as someone who doesn’t really exist, and contact their victim without the victim knowing their true identity. Also, it allows them to bully behind a screen, which is easier to do, because while in person there might be physical retaliation or other people joining in to stop it, behind the monitor of a computer or the screen of a cell phone, a person can be alone and protected from those possibilities, which makes them more brave than they would be in person. It isn’t encouraged to use social media with malevolence because it can be viewed by people all over, but it is used for this purpose

Older generations seem to believe they have made an impact on bullying, because the forms of bullying they knew have been changed. Bullying is no longer only causing another person physical pain or calling them names, it exist through interactions behind a screen. People can pretend to be other people through the screen where no one can see who they are, this is in empowering. There is an extent of trust between a person and the name they are communicating with, and trusting that the person responding to you is who they say they are. However, a sort of game has been created since social media became as active in the daily lives of our generation, not so affectionately called "catfishing." This term dates back to the times of primitive trade

In this time bullying on social media has escalated into something worse than it ever has been before. It not only happens everyday in and out of schools but now appears on social media more than ever. Bullying on social media varies from commenting on someone’s instagram post with a rude and or negative comment. It also regards to a person creating an inappropriate picture of someone else, or spreading a viral image that does not go with the user’s consent and or liking. In most school’s bullying

Generations after generations teens have used the actions of bullying to hurt others they felt as a threat or to be in the “in crowd” of popularity. Traditional bullying was physical and thus confined to face-to-face contexts. However, with the development of widespread social interaction via social media websites, email, and text-messaging, teens have additional avenues of expression and, as a result, other means of bullying. Over time the bullying taking place using digital means has come to be known as cyberbullying. Cyberbullying has brought the evilness out of teen’s actions, words, and thoughts whether they were the bully or the victim. Equally important, the ending results of these actions, words and thoughts have brought death,

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).