Cyber Bullying: Causes And Effects Of Cyberbullying

Introduction

Cyberbullying is a form of bullying that is done online especially through social networking sites, emails or any other forms of online communication (Sourander 2010). In the event of bullying a person online, one may choose to use offensive or mean language and direct it to another person and this results in feelings getting hurt. It is a common act among youths and teens due to the fact they communicate to each other online and very often. This is an activity that is growing at an alarming rate and brings about mixed results. Some victims have been so hurt by comments that have been made to them by their peers and result to hurting themselves severely or even taking their own life. The biggest question however is, what can be

(Hinduja, 2008) Information technology is now gaining much attention especially with the young age. Many are usually naïve and don’t even understand about privacy invasion. They don’t differentiate the boundaries defined in terms of individual’s reputation and the kind of information of another individual which can be exposed to the public. The solution will be aiming at educating the public about cyber bullying. It will carried out in rallies, promotions and seminars. The society will be organized into groups and public trainers will be visiting them on different days for training. The training will address the main causes of cyber bullying and avoid them. (Hertz & David-Ferdon, 2008) The government and civil society groups will be involved in training process. In addition the government will establish centers for reporting cyber bullying cases. The centers will have the responsibility of guiding the abused to report the cases to police and necessary actions taken. The center will be involved in enabling the abused to recuperate from the scenario. Counseling of the individuals will be initiated with proper monitoring

The result of this stage will be determining the distribution of cases of cyber bullying according to age, geographical regions and policy coverage of solving the cases involved.

Budgeting- the solution aims at establishing a police department dealing with cyber bullying, establish training, counseling and reporting centers. A budget to cater for the operation of the police department will be established.it covers a transport cost, cost of searching for evidence and if necessary cost for hiring specialized companies for carrying out investigation. The budget covers the cost of establishment of counseling centers and employment of professional counselors. It also covers the cost of training the public on cyber bullying.

Implementation.- it should be covered in phases. First is the establishment of the policies by the government and creation of the special police department to deal with cyber bullying.. Then training process would be carried out in parallel with construction of counseling centers. The last phase would be hiring of counseling and training personnel and the commemoration of the