Why Cyber Bullying Is Different?

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).

In our time today, there are many types of "bullying", but the one type I believe can be the worse and the one I will be discussing will be “Cyber bullying.” Cyber Bullying is an action when people either get together or by themselves purposely threaten or harass another kid through social media, such as Twitter or Facebook. The use of smart phones makes this action so easy to do and we can't really do anything to stop it from happening. These people can go and tweet about something any part of the day. All types of bullying are usually related in some type of way but the action of doing it is usually much different. Cyber bullying is one of the worst types of

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.

Bullying has been around since the beginning of time. Parents may remember when they were kids and the bully would pick on them or their friends by stealing lunch money or just getting beat up, and that was the end of it. The victims remember the hurt, frustration, and sadness it caused. However, these days, bullying is not just happening on the playground or at the bus stop, it is happening on the Internet and on cell phones, making it possible to bully a child 24 hours a day with multiple bullies and thousands of kids watching. Cyberbullying follows children nonstop and into the safety of their house. Sometimes kids are afraid to inform their parents about the cyberbullying that they will think its there fault. Or that their parents will call the bullies parents or other parents, making the bullying worse. However, the effect and pain that comes from cyberbullying is real. People underestimate cyberbullying, just because it is happening online and not in person. Cyberbullying can lead to many different factors like drinking, and drugs, poor grades, depression, eating disorders. Many students have even taken their own lives because of another student saying something to them online. Cyberbullying has been taking place a lot more in middle and high schools because of the increased usage of social media networks and technology. Cyberbullying is worse and more harmful than traditional bullying.

Examples of cyberbullying include mean text messages or emails, rumors sent by email or posted on social networking sites, and embarrassing pictures, videos, websites, or fake profiles.

Cyberbullying is one type of bullying used through technology. People use texting, emailing, or social media to make other people feel bad about themselves for other

Cyber bullying is the use of electronic communication to bully a person, typically by sending messages of an intimidating or threatening nature. The cell phone is the most common platform for bullying.

Examples of what constitutes cyberbullying include communications that seek to intimidate, control, manipulate, put down, falsely discredit, or humiliate the recipient. The actions are deliberate, repeated, and hostile behavior intended to harm another. Cyberbullying has been defined by The National Crime Prevention

Technology can be used in many ways to cyber bully. Barnardos released a booklet in 2012 outlining a number of key risk factors of cyber bullying. Personal intimidation includes actions such as sending out threatening text messages, posting abusive and threatening comments on the victim’s Facebook profiles or other websites and the use of instant messaging in chat rooms etc. to threaten the victim further. Impersonation involves setting up fake profiles and web pages that are attributed to the victim; this also involves hacking or gaining access to the victims profile to contact or instant message others. Exclusion encompasses blocking an individual from a class group or community group on a social media website. Personal humiliation is a behaviour that involves posting images or videos of the victim that are intended to embarrass or humiliate them. This can be done on Facebook or by text messaging etc. And lastly false reporting, this is where the bully reports the victim to the service provider for a range of behaviours with a view to having the account suspended, blocked or deleted (Get With It, 2012).

Cyber bullying is an action of harassing or harming people using technology. It is increasing with the increasing technology. People of all ages are victims for this where majority of them are teenagers. It includes posting rumors or gossip about a person and insulting them or sometimes it may include morphing of their photos and posting them in social media networks to embarrass them. A victim can 't cyber predict the cyber bully and is difficult to know that person. A cyber bully can be any unknown person. People who are cyber bullied are even bullied in person. Cyber bullying can be performed at any time. Modified images can be posted by any anonymous person and can be distributed easily. It is even difficult and sometimes impossible to identify the person performing cyber bullying. It is even difficult to delete inappropriate messages once they are posted. However because of the changing technology it is difficult to survey the main problem of cyber bullying. The effects of cyber bullying are very serious and lead to many health and psychological problems. Cyber bullying is more in America, next in India, then in Russia as stated below

Bullying is meticulous act that hurts young victims emotionally and physically. In other words bullying occurs when a more powerful person hurts, dismay or intimidates a weaker person on a frequent and deliberate basis. Bullying takes two different types traditional bullying and Cyber bullying. Traditional bullying takes three different forms, physical, verbal and social. Hitting, poking, shoving, tripping and slapping victims manifest physical bullying. Name-calling, derision, insults, teasing and racist remarks are forms of verbal bullying. Persuading others to exclude or reject someone are characteristics of social bullying. On the other hand cyber bullying, refers to the aggression through the Internet and technology. Cyber bullying takes place by sending mean messages, claiming to be someone else in order to despise that person and posting hurtful assertions about an individual. This kind of bullying can occurs by e-mail, blogs, instant messaging, and Web sites or through text messaging ( Sidorowicz, Hair & Milot, 2009). Relational aggression is a type of aggressive behavior. Relational aggression consists of social exclusion, friendship retirement threats, the spreading of malicious secrets, lies or gossip and giving the silent treatment.

What is cyber bullying? Cyber bullying is hurting, threatening, humiliating, or harassing someone else using any electronics such as computers, cell phones, and other devices. Cyber bullies can send texts or emails to a person to make them feel bad about themselves by using hurtful or profane language. They can also start online rumors, or tell lies about someone on social media sites such as Instagram, Snapchat, Facebook, or MySpace. Another way for them to hurt is by using a fake account in a person's name to hurt others, then make them mad at the person whom they intended to hurt in the first place. To make it worse, they could steal that person's password to social media apps and post embarrassing and personal things while pretending to be that person.

Did you know that victims of bullying are 2-9 more times likely to commit suicide (Bullying Statistics.org)? Many people have committed suicide because of bullying. All forms of bullying can distract kids from learning, but traditional bullying, (or in other words physical/verbal bullying) will distract the student from learning the most, since they are face-to-face with the bully in the hallways, or even have classes with the bully. Being cyberbullied will distract the victim from learning, but not as much as being physically/verbally bullied, since the cyberbully might not be in their school. If a victim is physically and/or verbally bullied, they may feel like there is no way to escape the bullying. When Cyberbullied, victims do have a way out, and can avoid the harassment by not going on that website anymore. Therefore, bullying is more serious than cyberbullying.

Cyber bullying is quite different from the old traditional bullying. The traditional bullying has a combination of physical abuse, verbal abuse, and emotional abuse. While in cyber bullying it would just be emotional and verbal abuse because the person being bullied doesn’t get physically hurt. The traditional bullying would be face to face usually on school grounds during the school day, and it would have a smaller audience. Cyber bullying is at school and at home, all day, everyday either by the form of a text message, or chat room, or on social networking websites, and it has a large audience, for example if somebody posted on your wall on facebook everybody can see it and then people will comment and it will be a lot of people.