“Every child on Facebook likely has a bullying story, whether as the victim, bully or as a witness.” – National Bullying Prevention Center
As technology as progressed over the years so to has society with it. The use of technology has infiltrated and changed society in an endless number of ways and it only continues to grow. The interesting thing about the advances of technology and their impacts on society are the ways that they adapt to a common facet of human society and evolve it. One of the biggest issue that this idea applies to is bullying. Bullying has been apart of human culture essentially sense the beginning of civilization. People are scared and/or misunderstanding of people that are different. Throughout the history of man bullies and bullying can be seen across gender, religious, ethnic, racial, ect… lines. The concept is by no means brand new to society. However, the advances in technology have allowed the concept of bullying to evolve with society. Social media has become one of the most common mediums that cyberbullying has plagued it victims. The old saying “Kids are cruel” is true. Unfortunately, through the use and non-social interactions on social media, the new saying could easily be “Kids are evil!”
According to the website internetsafety101.org, 85% of American youths between the ages of 13 and 17 have a social media account. This statistic seems normal because this demographic is with the parameters of the target group that most social media giants target their services to. However, these social media giants did not intend that their services be used to harass and bully their users by other users. According to the website, “33% of teenagers have been victims of cyberbullying.” This means that on...
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...This is a promising sign in the reduction of this problem. Social media is also become very active in attempting to decrease cyberbullying. Users can now report post or pictures on many social media websites for cyberbullying. Users that are found guilty of cyberbullying by social media websites have begun suspending accounts of these users also. These are steps in the right direction, but there is still no solution and one can argue their never will be because the world will always have bullies. But, the world always has people that will stand up for whats right too.
Works Cited
Bullyingstatistics.org. “Cyber bullying Statistics.” http://www.bullyingstatistics.org/content/cyber-bullying-statistics.html. Web. 28 Nov. 3, 2014.
InternetSafety101. “Cyberbullying Statistics.” http://www.internetsafety101.org/cyberbullyingstatistics.htm. Web. 28 Nov. 3, 2014.
There is a notable difference between the Northern New England and Southern New England Indians. Northern Indians were tradition hunter gathers and had a much lower population concentration isolated to mostly permanent settlements. Southern Indians were mainly agricultural, had a much higher population density, and altered their environment through the use of controlled fires; which ultimately forced them to be more mobile as firewood stocks were
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Larry from safekids.com also imagines that todays tech is the issue, “ These days technology makes it possible for youth to reach through both space and time to harass or bully classmates regardless of location”(Magid). With cell phones, even the impossible is almost possible. Kids will continuously pick on someone else at school, at home, at work, anywhere because they are able to, do to our modern tech. Posting it online will only cause more torment and harassment of the children who have already been bullied and beat up. Larry also says “ It's now possible for kids to use the internet , their cell phones, social networking sites, and even game consoles to harm impersonate and embarrass others” (Magid). Though we enjoy using our technology we have today we may not have as much freedom as we do now in the future if we keep being irresponsible. Any Type of bullying or harassment is not a joke, it leads to many different finishes and most of them people will not like to
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Mickie Wong-Lo and Lyndal M. Bullock, in their encouraging attempt to intervene in incidents of cyberbullying, have recommended many ways to deal with it. In their article entitled “Digital Aggression: Cyberworld Meets School Bullies”, they asserted that children do not acquaint their parents with their activities on the Internet and as a result parents do not know how to address similar situations (67). According to Kowalski, parents ought to follow “reporting techniques, which includes knowing when to ignore, block, or react, being mindful of the language being used and respond appropriately;” (qtd. in Wong-Lo and Bullock 68). In other words, the authors rightly emphasize that systematic supervision and knowledge can be valuable measures because parents will monitor children’s use of Internet and will be able to provide appropriate guidelines just in case a danger arises (Wong-Lo and Bullock 68). Moreover, as Keith and Martin argue, “[…] incorporating popular youth technology would be to teach youth how to use a social networking site to promote themselves in a positive manner that would appeal ...
Nowadays bullying has gone much farther than just physical violence. Most teens today have either been cyber bullied or have been witnesses to it. Cyber bullying is a form of bullying that is done over electronic messaging or over social media. This is very new to many people of the older generation, but is very relevant to the new generation. Cyber bullying is becoming an increasingly big problem in the U.S. every year. Being a kid who has grown up with technology and social media I have witnessed cyber bullying many times in my life. I have had many friends that have fell victim to cyber bullying and this is why I chose to talk about this topic. Since this topic of bullying is overlooked in our society as not being an issue I decided to choose