Cyber Bullying

Have you ever been cyber bullied before? Your answer would probably be no or I got a mean comment once. In the United States of America cyber bullying is not as much as a problem as we might think it to be, not to say that it doesn’t not go on but its overhyped and some don’t use the term “Bullying” correctly. To define bullying I will use https://www.stopbullying.gov/what-is-bullying/definition/index.html to define the term.

So you’ve been staring at an electronic screen for weeks, all day. People taking advantage of technology cause cyber bullying. Excessive technology, especially causes negative health effects and a lack of thought. Too much technology affects you terribly. Most importantly, numerous people get cyber bullied online.

Did you know that females are more likely to be cyberbullied, compared to girls? Most people, nowadays, have access to the internet, which makes it easier people to cyberbully others. Only 15.1% of British teachers have been a victim of cyberbullying, with the other 84.9% not being a victim. An assistant Secretary of Civil Rights has noticed that there are many forms of harassment. Schools should take more action when it comes to any type of bullying off school grounds. This is making people wonder if schools should be more restrictive to the student’s online speech freedom.

Over many years of history, there has always been some type of bullying that has taken place. It’s always been around however in different forms. In the 60’s and times before social media, it was done face to face by each other and people said directly at the victim being bullied. Now that social media is more popular and used than ever before, the way bullying was before, no longer exist. What it was before, a face to face interaction, is now face to phone interaction.

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).

However, there are some similarities as to why an individual would bully someone else online. Few of the reasons may include power, entertainment or control (Child Refuge, 2011). Conclusion can be made just from these reasons. Life as a teenager in high school can be very challenging. The bar is set high for these students because of high expectations from them or their parents. When children are bored, or lack the attention from their parents they seek entertainment which makes them more likely to become cyberbullies (Child Refuge, 2011). These individuals acquire control and power through humiliating their victims by harassing them or even putting fear to these helpless people through threats (Child Refuge, 2011). For those victims who were bullied, now realize it’s their time to shine and take the roll of being the bully.

…it is often easier to be cruel using technology because cyberbullying can be done from a physically distant location, and the bully doesn 't have to see the immediate response by the target. In fact, some teens simply might not recognize the serious harm they are causing because they are sheltered from the victim 's response (par. 6)

Bullying is a real problem in today’s world and it needs to be stopped. Even though bullying appears many times in the Glass Castle, unfortunately it happens in social media, home, sports teams, and the list goes on and on. Cyber bullying is a real issue in today’s world. According

Traditional bullying used to be more common back when there was no texting or social media. Bullying consistently takes place in person: the common actions often include teasing, taunting, humiliating, and sometimes showing acts of violence. Cyberbullying takes place online making it more humiliating and intolerable for the victim since the information doesn’t go away. They both equally cause the victim emotional distress and significantly lower their confidence while the bully feels more authoritative and quite satisfied. While the fear of getting bullied grows in the victim, they start to feel unsafe and decide not to go to school. All the students deserve to attend school without the fear of getting humiliated, harassed, or bullied, but what are the bystanders and teachers doing about bullying?

Let’s start off with drawing a fine line where harassment starts. Harassment is defined as, aggressive pressure or intimidation. Harassment starts usually when your contentment towards someone ends. While sitting behind a computer screen, it is easy to express this and seem powerful or intimidating.. Do you not know what you are doing to others though? Research studies show that, as of 2014, over half of young people report being cyber bullied. Everyday teenagers experience a form of cyberbullying, which can be defined as, the use of electronic communication to bully a person, typically by sending messages of an intimidating or threatening nature. Sounds a lot like harassment, does it not? All states across America should enforce laws and policies that do not tolerate cyberbullying or any form of online harassment, for cyberbullying is harassment. It will promote a safer internet environment for everyone.

Cyber bullying is the most common direct form of bullying. Bullies find the internet a easier way to be mean and hurtful because they are protected behind a screen. Cyber bullies make people face threats, taunts, and insults. Cyber bullies can post, send and share negative content about someone. This is a serious issue because people can put out private or personal information about someone and expose then to various strangers.

If students have their phones during school they would be able to cyberbully during school hours. More than 25 percent of teens and adolescents are cyberbullied; if students were able to bring their phones to school cyberbullying would increase, and the percent of students being cyberbullied would increase. If students were able to bring their phones to school they could get other students account names for Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, ect. and follow them just to bully them through the app. They would be able to threaten the student or scare them in a way that would make the student afraid to tell someone.

With today’s technology bullying has become easier then ever; the children and youth of this generation do not even need to have personal confrontation. Cyber bullying can be defined as any communication posted or sent by a minor online, by instant messenger, e-mail, website, diary site, online profile, interactive game, handheld device, cell phone or other interactive device that is intended to frighten, embarrass, harass or otherwise target another minor. Cyber bullying is disturbingly common among Canadian teens. Cyber-Bullying: Our Kids’ New Reality is a survey that was conducted from December 2006 – January 2007 by the members of Kids Help Phone that had over 2500 respondents. More than 70 per cent of

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First, traditional bullying is more common than cyber bullying. According to Traditional Forms of Bullying Remain a More Prevalent and Serious Problem, Susan M. Swearer states, “In a recent survey of more than 40,000 U.S. high school students conducted by the Josephson Institute, which focuses on ethics, 47 percent said they were bullied in the last year. But, according to the 2007 book “Cyber Bullying,” as few as 10 percent of bullying victims are cyber-bullied. Meanwhile, a study of