Social media has numerous benefits to the people around the world. Through the use of social media it allows families and friends the ability to keep in touch, even if they are miles away from each other. Social media allows people to be in direct contact through audio and visual connections with family through the use of Facebook, My Space, Instagram, and Twitter. With social media sites they bridges the gap among families and friends and allows for more of a closer connection than just a phone call alone. But while social media provides the ability for people to connect in a more personal way, cons exist with its use as well. One major drawback is cyber-bullying, an unregulated form of harassment and bullying which is affecting several youths …show more content…
While cyber-bullying and physical bullying are similar in nature, they still differ to a degree. Cyber Bullying is online harassment, intimidating messages, or threatening communications by a single individual or multiple individuals and is ultimately a misuse of the online social media system. Cyber-bullying is not face to face contact like physical bullying, where the perpetrator can be hands on with the victim, nonetheless equally harmful to the victim.
While both forms of bullying should be illegal and laws should be in place to protect individuals against being bullied. Cyber-bullying is difficult to catch and is a growing concern when it comes to our younger generations. The younger generations use all types of social media to connect to others and post tons of personal information about themselves. Cyberbullies find this information and feed off of it so they can continue to bully their
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Victims who face cyber-bullying may have changed schools and even deleted their social media account to help protect themselves from further bullying issues. “In 2011 alone, one million children were harassed, threatened or subjected to acts of cyberbullying on Facebook” by Steven White is the president and CEO of Image visual, social networks adapt to prevent cyber-bullying (Para.1). Individuals who have been bullied tend to have mental health issues, whether short term or long term. Victims may not want to be around anyone else isolating themselves from the world. They may develop low self-esteem, have increase stress and anxiety, may become angry at the world for not protecting them, and may lose confidence in themselves and in worst case situations, suicide as they cannot handle the bullying
Bullies have been around a long time, but the advancement in technology gives these bullies a whole new platform. Cyberbullying is the act of harming or harassing via information technology networks in a repeated and deliberate manner. Sometimes cyberbullying is easy to spot, for instance if a child shows their parent a direct tweet or message which is viewed as harsh, rude or even threatening (Kids Health From Nemours, 2016). In other cases, it is not as easy to spot, like impersonating a victim online or posting personal or embarrassing information. Cyberbullying causes psychological, emotional and physical stress. Each person’s response to bullying is different and unique, but more often than not, youth who are bullied have a higher risk of depression and anxiety (Kids Health From Nemours,
Sometimes it is even worse than actual bullying because it's like you can't even pull your phone out or look at it without seeing it. Some times cyberbullies will never even look at you if they see you in person, but other times they will bully the victim in person too. The reason that that won't all the time do anything in person is because physical bullying is illegal. Cyberbullying should be illegal too, because most of the time it hurts them worse then being punched or kicked or smacked or whatever happens at that moment. People have seriously hurt them selves because they were getting cyberbullied.
The act of bullying through social media has the potential to publicly humiliate and degrade a person’s reputation to the point of the victim causing self harm or even committing suicide. Bullying through social media is an inescapable torture to its victims. Victims can not run away from the hateful tweets, texts, posts, and messages the online bully sends. The repetition of mean and hurtful messages can change the way the victims think about themselves and destroys any self confidence they once had. Although the victim can ignore the negative feedback from the aggressor, the posts are often seen by other school peers which leads to the spread of gossip and digital pile on.
Technology has given individuals the opportunity to change the game of bullying. Cyber-bullying is one of the most common forms of bullying as of today. The Internet has no boundaries so the public has access to endless and countless number of things. Cyber-bully is the electronic posting of mean-spirited messages about a person (as a student) often done anonymously according to Merriam-Webster dictionary. While traditionally bullying and cyber-bullying are very comparable in forms of technique that also have many differences. Cyber-bullying gives the bully the benefit of hiding their identity behind a screen. This makes it easier to tear people down because they do not have to come in contact with anyone. It’s the easiest form of bullying. These can happen in text messages, chat rooms, email, websites, excluding people from certain online activities, digital photos, and social media. Cyber bullies have unlimited supplies of ways to hurt someone. It is difficult to conduct a study on cyber-bullying because the majority of people will not confess or admit to it. Instead, in the article “Cyber-bullying among adolescents: Measures in search of a construct.” Researchers sit and listen through the grapevine on what is going on inside of schools. They found out that cyber-bullying is more dealt with within adolescents than traditional interaction bullying. (Mehari, K. R., Farrell, A. D., & Le, A. H.) Cyber-bullying can cause more
Facebook and other social media platforms have brought communication across the world to a whole new level. The rise of social media has created a place for children to communicate with others in both a positive and negative manner. Although it has made a positive impact on American youth, it has also contributed and exacerbated bullying in our schools. This new form of bullying, often referred to as cyberbullying, has created an around-the-clock atmosphere where bullying can occur even when school is not in session. Many professionals have sought to address the negative aspects of social media and have worked to develop a solution to bring cyberbullying to an end.
In the past, bullying could happen anywhere like on a playground, when a child would be walking home from school, daycares, and other public places. It usually involved the bully “being physically present and name calling, physical violence, taunting, and other things would take place”( Deal with a Bully & Overcome Bullying). However, with the recent advances in technology like the cell phone and social media being on the rise, the new type of bullying has come to be known as cyber bullying. Cyber bullying can include anything like “abusive texts and emails, hurtful messages, images or videos, imitating others online to set them up, excluding others online, and nasty online gossip and chat” (Cyberbullying). In this quote Keith and Martin describe how bullying is different from cyber bullying because the changes in technology, “Cyber-bullying, while being similar in its intent to hurt others through power and control, is different due to the use of these new technologies.” With the help of social media, like Facebook and Twitter, bullies can torment their victims when they are not face-to-face with them. They are able send their victims unwanted messages and post inappropriate pictures and humiliating things about their victims online. Even though
Before students only had to worry about being bullied at school, but due to technology advances and the use of social media, teenagers can be bullied twenty four- seven. Cyberbullying causes a huge impact on students and when they are too busy with the anxiety of being bullied their grades can suffer or they can even drop out. According to HealthDay News, 9,590 students were surveyed from 580 U.S. schools. Compared to kids who were not bullied, students that were cyberbullied experienced a 0.049 drop in their GPA between grades 9 and 12. This number is too big when you think about the potential students have but the constant bullying by their peers on social media effects that. For some, dropping out or taking the bad grades feels like their only option. Some teenagers that get cyberbullied on social media can’t take the constant criticism, which can lead to suicide. An example is Hannah Smith, a 14-year old student from England. Smith had been on ask.fm, a social networking site that allows people to ask questions anonymously. Cyberbullies urged her to drink bleach and cut herself. Eventually she couldn’t take the bullying any longer and committed suicide. Social media has a huge impact on these suicides because it’s through these websites that these teens are being bullied by other students. If teens don’t stop soon the side effects of cyberbullying
Social media bullying is becoming a growing problem, not only in the United States, but all around the world. Children can easily have access to the internet and social media sites and therefore say whatever they want to others in order to boost their self-esteem. In order to prevent social media bullying, children and parents must be aware of all internet dangers and also what children are capable of. Parents should monitor what their kids are saying and doing online and take action if they are not behaving in an appropriate way.
The cons of social media can be very risky, especially when the youth of this society is partaking in it. Children and adolescents are now known for inappropriate content on social media sites or just simply not understanding the concepts of privacy. A nationwide issue that has been addressed is the action of cyberbullying. This action often leads to harmful circumstances such as suicide attempts, with some being successful. In just one state in the U.S., 1,491 high school students that were the “cyber bullies” were related to suicide attempts and about 4,693 students were rel...
Bullying is a worldwide problem and it requires immediate attention because it psychologically affects both the victims and the bullies. Victims may ultimately have suicidal thoughts and bullies will have uncontrolled behaviors that carry on through school and after school, but they can be helped. Although cyber bullying is a big obstacle due to the large-scale usage of internet and the ability to conceal identities, technological advancements and child supervision help to single out these individuals to reduce the amount of bullying that occurs.
Cyber bullying is a form of teen violence that can do lasting harm to young people. It can take many forms such as sending hurtful messages or threats, spreading rumors online, posting unflattering pictures, pretending to be someone else or stealing a person’s account information and posting vulgar things. There are two kinds of cyber bullying, direct attacks, which are sent to kids directly, and cyber bullying by proxy, which is using others help to cyber bully the victim, wither with or without the accomplice’s knowledge (Stop cyber bullying). Overall they both have the same outcome, which is downgrading the victim’s self-esteem to the lowest level possible. For those who have never been cyber bullied see it as nothing important, but what they do not understand is that it can be can be very damaging to adolescents and teens. It can lead to anxiety, depression, and even suicide. People may believe that cyber b...
Social media should be limited in extent to prevent cyber bullying. Many parents often have kids who are bothered in schools. A bully can still bother them when they go online. At any time of age a child that uses the internet or joins a social network can be exposed to problems like cyber bullying. A large number of hurtful texts, emails, or photos have been purposely posted on social networking sites to humiliate the target. There have been many reports of bullies setting up a fake account to post or sent messages posing as the victim. Social networking should do more in order to prevent teen’s increased risk for exposure to cyber bullying.
Social media has changed the way people communicate with each other and in turn, has affected our ability to empathize in both negative and positive ways. One of the most harmful consequences is the rise of cyber-bullying, which can be found from a hateful Facebook post by a classmate to anonymous trolling in the comments sections of websites. Some argue that social media is a breeding ground for this type of behavior while others say it would still take place even if you removed the medium.
There is a huge, significant difference between cyber-bullying and other types of bullying. In traditional bullying, you know who the bully is. However, in cyber-bullying, the bully is most commonly anonymous. The most common sources of cyber-bullying are in social networking websites, where people disguise themselves to not reveal their true identity and harass and hurt their feelings. Traditional bullying only happens in school hours and when the victim is around the bully, but in cyber-bullying, the bullying happens anytime, anywhere, twenty-four hours a day, and seven days a week. When people come to their homes, they feel like they are in a safe and secure environment, yet victims of cyber-bullying are always being harassed, embarrassed, humiliated, and offended anytime of everyday due to threatening messages and embarrassing posts on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Moreover, traditional bullying requires the bully to have physical strength, but cyber-bullying does not require any physical strength. The bully does not necessar...
A great number of children and young adults are the main target of bullying via the internet. In most instances the youngsters cannot understand that they are being bullied as this shows that that the once safe internet environment is over time becoming a great sources of anxiety and confusion (Berson, Berson & Ferron, 2002). Cyber bullying tend to have negative effects of the one being bullied in that the victim attains a confused feeling and are hurt since they have been targeted and insulted for no justifiable reasons. With time the victims develop feelings of loneliness and fear and may opt to stay at home where they feel secure and may even avoid to schools or in other social gatherings. This is likely to affects