Is Cyberbullying as Pervasive and as Dangerous as Physical Bullying?

Cyberbullying is a form of written and verbal bullying which is conveyed by teens and adolescents through communication technologies such as cell-phones, emails, text messages, websites, webcams and chatrooms. It also includes taking sexual photographs by ex-partners and sending to others after

What is cyberbullying? Cyberbullying is, “Writing hurtful statements on a social media site or website” according to “What is Cyberbullying?” published by the Ophelia Project. Regular bullying is usually face-to-face and usually ending with someone getting physically harmed. Cyberbullying is only hurting someone’s feelings not physically harming them. “If the child in question can’t handle... [their feelings getting

This shows that many people can be cyber harassed in many ways and it could affect them in many ways also this is because some people think social media is a free source to say whatever and bully people. Over the years there have been laws established and organizations to prevent and regulate social media harassment. The National Conference of State Legislators regulates cyber harassments by filing statistics on Facebook, Twitter and Ask.FM and how it impacts cyberbullying also they file cyberbullying on smartphones and sexting. This helps to stop cyberbullies because this is the number one cause of suicide deaths. Cyberbullying should be stop completely there are kids as young as nine that are victims of cyber harassment. These regulations help but we need everyone to cooperate and stop the “friendly opinions that didn’t mean no harm”.

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.

A study in the article “Is Cyberbully worse than Traditional Bullying” investigated the importance of medium (tradition vs. cyber), publicity (public vs. private), and bully’s anonymity (anonymous vs. not anonymous). The goal was to determine severity of hypothetical bullying scenarios among a sample of seventh and eighth graders. Participants were asked to rank a set of hypothetical bullying scenarios from the most severe to the least severe. Then, the scenarios were manipulated based on the aspect of medium and publicity, and the medium and anonymity.

Cyberbullying is the abuse of an electronic source to degrade and devalue others. It is cruel and immoral but unfortunately unavoidable in today’s age.

Parents more than anybody have an intense effect on the fate of their kid. Open correspondence and control is the most significant variable in their relationship. Schools, police authorities, and so on do have an impact on digital tormenting however from a separation. Folks need to advise both the school and police about the badgering. Schools have including a no spook zone standard into their disciplinary guidelines on account of how genuine the issue got to be. Police additionally have gotten to be amazingly cruel on spooks in light of the fact that they don't appear to understand the conclusion of their appalling conduct. Subsides intimates, "...The author of this entry in the What's the Issue? series addresses readers directly to explain how hurtful and risky cyberbullying can be to both sender and receiver...Laced with specific instances that ended in suicides, arrests, and other ugly consequences." Parents, police and schools have stepped their amusement up because of cyberbullying on account of how genuine the outcomes

Cyberbullying; the use of internet, cell phones, other electronic communication devices to spread harmful, embarrassing information about another person. This information can be in the form of text, photos, or videos. (“Cyberbullying” Gale.) There are many types of cyberbullying such as sexual remarks, sending threats, bad language, or exposing embarrassing photos or videos. (“Cyberbullying” Gale.) Cyberbullies usually do those things without the victim’s permission and get a big group of people to come together and gang up on the victim. (“Cyberbullying” Gale.) It’s disappointing to know majority of bullies need more than one person on their side to destroy someone, and mainly for no particular reason but to pick on someone who is not of their caliber. Most bullies operate from a place of insecurity, where they fear someone being better than them, causing the bully to find ways to bring the victim down and pounces

This topic is important to me because there have been many cases where I see people hurting others online. In my research, I found that there are are two types of bullying: traditional bullying and cyberbullying. Traditional bullying is an aggressive behavior or intentional violence by one person or a group of people that can be carried out repeatedly and over a period of time that involves power over others (Patchin and Hinduja 148). In the article, “Cyberbullying Among Adolescents: The Role of Affective and Cognitive Empathy and Gender”, Rebecca P. Ang defined cyberbullying as,

One definition for cyber bullying is, “the intentional and repeated harm inflicted through the use of computers, cell phones, or other electronic devices”, (Chisholm, 2014, p. 78). Cyber bullying can also be defined as, “any behavior performed through electronic or digital media by individuals or groups that repeatedly communicates hostile or aggressive messages intended to inflict harm or discomfort on others” (Foody, Samara, & Carlbring, 2015). Cyber bullying is unique to other forms of bullying in many ways. A cyber bully is able to hide behind social media and is able to maintain secrecy while posting cruel messages to a vast audience. The perpetrator may also not realize the true effects of his actions because he is unable to see his victim while online; reducing his feeling of responsibility (Schneider, O 'Donnell, Stueve, & Coulter, 2012). Victims of cyber bullying are less likely to

This proposal will focus on the topic of cyberbullying. More specifically, cyberbullying vs. traditional offline bullying will be examined. This objective of this paper is to determine whether or not cyberbullying is a worse form of bullying than traditional offline bullying; whether the former has more of an impact than the latter. Currently, there is still some debate about this issue. While many claim that cyberbullying is worse than offline bullying, there are those who claim that physical bullying has more of an impact (Lenhart, 2009). Others do not say this directly; however, they highlight the type of bullying as being more important than whether the bullying occurs online or offline (Bauman, 2012).

Hase et al. focus on how bullying and cyberbullying differ pertaining to teenager’s mental health. Olweus focuses on first dismissing common misconceptions of cyberbullying given by the media, then he goes through his results in an extremely logical and statistical manner. He states that cyberbullying is directly related to traditional bullying, and therefore the impact on mental health can not be directly attributed to one of the two forms, but rather both. Li begins with pathos, giving many examples of cyberbullying and how traumatic it was for the victims. She claims that cyberbullying has a greater negative impact on mental health, not just by

Whilst cyber bullying is not physical it’s emotional and psychological effects are devastating for the victim and can often lead to suicide and depression (Hinduja & Patchin, 2010). Social Networking sites act as a platform where bullies can say things they might not usually say to someone in person, anonymity and less physical proximity act as a wall between the bully and the victim, none the less, the words or rumors’ that are shared are still just as hurtful. Bullies often feel more confident online and they can contact their victims anytime, anywhere, day or night, not just in the school yard (Smith et al., 2008).” (Procon. (24 O). Retrieved from http://socialnetworking.procon.org/)

(Moreau, Ryan. “Expert Thoughts on Cyberbullying.” It’s My Life blog. PBS Kids. 13 Nov. 2012. Web. 11 July 2015.)

Cyberbullying is when someone gets made fun of online. Over 20% of High School students get cyber bullied regularly. Cyber bullying can have have serious consequences you could get kidnapped or worse. Overall Cyber bullying is as bad or worse than regularly because they might want get your password.