The Pros And Cons Of Cyberbullying

Bullying by definition is a form of aggressive behavior in which someone intentionally and repeatedly causes another person injury or discomfort. Bullying can take the form of physical contact, words or more subtle actions. [Why] Bullying has grown new outlets over the last decade. With social media outlets and text messaging added to the game, bullying is not just about getting tormented face to face anymore. Cyber bullying can include sending out mean or threatening emails and instant messages about a person, spreading rumors about someone and also include photos that a person would consider to be humiliating. [Chamberlin] Bullying can have many outlets. The most common form of bullying is still face to face confrontation. But

Cyber Bullying is defined by the National Crime Prevention Council as - "when the Internet, cell phones or other devices are used to send or post text or images intended to hurt or embarrass another person" (National Crime Prevention Council).

At 6 p.m., October 10, 2012, fifteen year old Amanda Todd hung herself after she posted a gripping video called, “My Story:Struggling,bullying, suicide,and self harm” after being harassed and bullied online for many years. While she was in the 7th grade, Amanda Todd had an online video conversation with someone who asked her to flash her breasts, which she eventually did. After one year, she was contacted by the same person who threatened to post her pictures on the Internet if she didn’t provide more provocative pictures. Even though she refused to send pictures to him, her pictures were sent to her family and friends. Despite switching schools, the cyber bullying continued and a Facebook page of her with the picture of her breasts as the profile picture was created. Even though Amanda tried to kill herself by drinking bleach, the abuse was too much, so she hung herself (Pendergrass and Wright,in press). Some questions to address with cyberbullying related suicides are: how do we define and recognize cyberbullying, how do we protect those who are cyberbullied, and how do we educate parents and other adults to protect children and adolescents from cyberbullying? With electronic communication becoming so prevalent, we cannot afford to ignore the increasing dangers of the societal shift from a traditional schoolyard bully to to the anonymous cyberbully. Children and adolescents deserve to be protected, parents and teachers need to understand the risks that cyber bullying

Bullying is about lack of power as one person is powerless to stop the teasing or form of abuse. Bullying is the selective, uninvited, repetitive oppression of one person by another person or group. Similarly, cyber-bullying is defined as ‘the use of electronic communication to bully a person, typically by sending messages of an intimidating or threatening nature.’ In the end, we must conclude that any type bullying is still considered bullying.

Bullying is described as the ongoing physical or emotional victimization of a person by another person or group of people. Cyber-bullying is an emerging problem in which people use social media and texting, to harass and cause emotional harm to their victims.

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.

This type of bullying can take place 24 hours a day and is brought into the student’s home where it was once considered safe. Cyber-bullying has changed the world's view on this age-old subject, meanwhile the media suggests that bullying is an epidemic by reporting on tragedies that happen among our youth shedding light on the problem. One thing everyone can agree on is that the internet has provided a non-stop opportunity to bully. Nicole Edgington was celebrating her 17th birthday at a concert when it would be turned upside down by cyber-bullying. A senior in California was wrongly accused of turning some students in for coming to school intoxicated. Because the students assumed she had turned them in, they began a barrage of social media attacks along with text message threats. Nicole wrote an article, the girl who got even: A true cyber bullying story, explaining how she rose above the threats and daily negative texts. It takes courage to stand up and face your fears especially when you feel isolated. Nicole’s mom started to speak out on cyberbullying and found that teens wanted to hear other teens. Nicole would face her bully’s by speaking out about the behavior. The media has suggested that bullying is an epidemic, reporting on tragedies that happen among our youth shedding light on an age-old problem. When bullying moves to the internet it becomes more

Bullying can happen in any number of places, contexts, or locations. Sometimes that place is online or through a cell phone. Bullying that occurs using technology (including but not limited to phones, email, chat rooms, instant messaging, and online posts) is considered electronic bullying and is viewed as a context or

Since the beginning of time people have always had to deal with bullies. Just like anything else, however, things tend to evolve with technology. With the evolution of social media and technology some adolescents and even adults are simply unable to escape harassment from their peers in school and in the workplace. This social phenomenon is what has come to be known as cyberbullying.

Imagine you are sitting at your computer, whether it is on Facebook, Twitter, or Snapchat. Then a notification comes up but your mom is yelling at you from downstairs to start on that long essay you have been putting off for so long. You decide a few more minutes could not hurt. So you click the notification, and it is a comment on a picture you posted. "You look ugly," says the comment. You stop and stare at it. Then another notification dings in your ears. Deciding to get your mind off the hate comment, you click the new notification. Some older teenager has privately messaged you, telling you to meet some place alone. Sound fun? Social Media is harmful because it is not safe for younger users, it is a distraction from more important activities,

Bullying is defined as the repeated aggression towards someone of a lower power status, with the intent to cause harm or hurt this person. It is a form of abuse and can take different forms such as physical, verbal, relational and cyber. (Monks, 2006; Craig, 2007). Physical bullying is the most obvious and is the actual harming of another human being; such as punching and kicking. Verbal bullying consists of name calling, teasing and threats towards another person. Relational bullying is harm related to emotional distress, this can include social exclusion, spreading rumors (Bauman, 2006). Cyber bullying is a more recent extension to the types of bullying, it is defined as, “the intentional act of aggression towards another person online” (Ybarra, 2004). This type of bullying can be enacted through e-mail, chatrooms, instant messaging and text-messaging (Low, 2013). Most bullying occurs in the school setting although it can occur within the home and workplace. (Monks, 2006).

Bullying is defined as an “act of repeated aggressive behavior performed to intentionally hurt another person, physically or mentally (Kim, 2013).” There are many forms of bullying, including physical, verbal, and social (Silva, 2013). A more recent form has arisen with the invention of the internet: cyberbullying.

ccount and send damaging messages, pretending to be someone else online to hurt another person. Sexting, a circulating sexually suggestive pictures or messages, is reported that one in five teens have posted or sent sexually suggestive or nude pictures of themselves to others (“Cyber Bullying Statistics”). Taking unflattering pictures of a person and spreading them through cell phones or the internet. A statistic from the Harford County states that one in ten teens have had embarrassing or damaging pictures taken of themselves without their permission (“Cyber Bullying Statistics”). On Twitter, a social networking site, subtweeting is a new form of bullying. Subtweeting is the act of post a rude comment without the name of the person it is about (Hinduja). Usually the person who posted the tweet does not have the guts to tag the other person or say it to them in person. For example, a girl and a boy broke up and the boy went to twitter to express his feelings. He would post something emotional for the whole twitter world to see. In reality this, boy was talking about his old girlfriend and did not have the guts to say it straight to her.

Bullying is defined as harassment that is reoccurring whether it is a student or a group bullying others. It occurs everywhere, not only in schools, but also other places. Only 32 percent of middle and high school students report being victims of bullying. Most students that get bullied but not everyone reports it in fear of getting hit or considered weak, so more people can take advantage of the children in school. The two basic types of bullying are bullying and cyber bullying, which has become more recent and popular in the past years. Bullying is the physical strength or emotional influence to intimidate or scare another person. Cyber bullying is when bullying occurs using technology such as social media like

The presence of digital media is very prevalent in today's society; it has become the most preferred medium of communication for the vast majority of people. Yet, this same technology that is used to ask Google quick questions, to follow friends on Facebook, and to send text messages to loved ones, is also being used as a medium for bullying. Bullies are now sourcing the use of technology to assault their victims. Cyber bullying is a form of bullying which is instigated through electronic technology. Cyber bullying is often harder than face- to- face bullying because it is more difficult to identify the bully, the bully has a larger audience, and the victim feels targeted all the time.