The Negative Effects Of Cyberbullying And Social Media

Social media and Cyberbullying Social media is another way of communication through technology. The social media trend is growing rapidly. It has become a daily routine for most people. Social media is affecting the world in many different ways. It was initially made to be a positive way of communicating, but over the years it has has a lot of negative impacts. One of the most known impacts is cyberbullying. Cyber Bullying is deliberately using digital media to communicate false, embarrassing, or

Social media is an internet platform that allows an individual to share information, post photos, and express themselves freely. With the evolvement of time, it has become popular amongst people of all age groups. It is useful in the way that it allows the sharing of information and messaging between people of all over the world. Examples of social media boards include Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat, etc. At first it may seem harmless, however, the oversharing of personal information may

lives revolve around the next message or notification received from various social networking websites. It has become a societal norm to be glued to a screen, and face to face conversations are starting to become extinct. This is becoming a global issue as the world is constantly creating new ways to entertain people via technology. Out of all dangers, children are the most at risk when it comes to social media. Social media is extremely problematic to people everywhere because of the constant threat

again, cyberbullying through social media has led to the suicide of a child. (“Phillips, Suzanne”) Social media allows hundreds of ways to communicate with others with electronic devices. Sometimes communicating with strangers, and sometimes unanimous. This idea of constant messages, notifications, and texts can be very dangerous when it comes to cyberbullying because the victim feels like they have no way out, or nowhere to hide. Social media for kids and teens ultimately has only negative effects

mind is growing too. Teenagers use of technology and social media has been causing peer pressure, online violence, and cyberbullying, which are why some adults say it is ruining the childhood of many. The development of modern culture and technology is changing so rapidly that there are some disadvantages on childhood, although some people say it is a positive effect on children. So are the advancements of technology a positive or negative effect on children? The world has become very reliant and absorbed

Social Media has a negative impact on making real-life communication difficult for the younger generations. These social platforms were made to improve communication between one another, with actually creating a negative effect on interpersonal socialization. Teenagers exposed to social media might be attacked virtually by cyber bullies who send threatening messages. Other teens could have their identity stolen for someone to use it for luring other teenagers into a fictional relationship. With social

cellphones, text messaging, video chat, and social media sites. This lack of face-to-face interaction has allowed people to interact in negative ways with others without causing physical harm. Though no physical harm is being done, researchers have found that a severe psychological harm is surfacing because of technological interaction. Although traditional bullying is still a problem, cyberbullying has become the more experienced form of bullying today. Social workers work with an abundance of different

positive aspects social media sites can bring such as helping families communicate when living away from each other, helping long-distance friendships work, increased social contact, and changing society, they also bring a variety of negative aspects. (Climent). "Social media is big and growing, but it is still dwarfed by the analog world in which people live and intereact,"(Fowlkes). One of the negative effects that comes along with social media is cyberbullying. Cyberbullying is bullying through

Social Media and the Negative Effects on Adolescents Social media seems to be changing how we communicate through society. Adolescents are consumed with media for an estimated 7.5-8.5 hours per day (Georgia, 2014; Giedd, 2012). Instead of interacting with each other face to face adolescents are socializing through their phones (George, 2014). The purpose of the paper was to research how social media affects the brain, sleep, and cyberbullying (Lemola, Perkinson- Gloor, Brand, Dewald- Kaufmann

dealing with cyberbullying. The studies showed that around 27% of the students that were cyberbullied at some point in their lives. Cyberbullying has become a serious problem throughout the U.S and I believe that creating and enforcing new laws could diminish the amount of kids that are cyberbullied every day. Bullying that occurs through social media, cell phones, tablets, or computers is called cyberbullying. Studies have shown that 1 in every 4 teens recieved some form of cyberbullying and that