The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services defines bullying as, “unwanted, aggressive behavior among school aged children that involves a real or perceived power imbalance. The behavior is repeated, or has the potential to be repeated, over time. Bullying includes actions such as making threats, spreading rumors, attacking someone physically or verbally, and excluding someone from a group on purpose.” There is an epidemic of bullying in schools across the nation. Bullying in schools should be stopped completely. There is no excuse for bullying to occur.
--------------Hook-------------The problem is that cyberbullying is an act that must be stopped, but putting limits on students ' online speech is unnecessary. If you are not familiar with the word Cyberbullying, it is a is when an individual is tormented, threatened, harassed, humiliated, embarrassed or otherwise targeted by another individual using the Internet, interactive and digital technologies.But yet again I bring the point that schools should not limit the amount of students online speech. Schools must protect students’ First Amendment rights but also maintain the learning environment and safety at school. Three main reasons why school should not limit students online speech are there is not a large percent affected, it does not cause
Bullying has several different ugly faces and styles, which is on the rise in the United States. One normally thinks of bullying as a school-age incident and something that happens when kids are just being kids. However, this is far from always true. Bullying is defined when a person or a group of people repeatedly tries to harm someone who is weaker or who they appear to be weaker. Sometimes direct attacks are involved by name calling, hitting, teasing or taunting. While sometimes it is indirect, such as spreading rumors or trying to make others reject someone. (www.stopbullying.gov, 2014)
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Cyberbullying does just as much, if not more, psychological harm to adolescents than traditional forms of bullying. Social media also plays a part in making it easier to verbally attack others anonymously through texting, social networks, and hate websites, thus, making the victim feel as if they do not have a safe place to avoid the abuse. Bullying, as defined by the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, is “to frighten, hurt, or threaten a smaller or weaker person” or “to cause someone to do something by making threats or insults or by using force.” According to Marissa Maldonado, a blog writer for PsychCentral, cyberbullying is different in that it can happen “anytime, anywhere, and it can be done anonymously” (Maldonado). Although both forms of bullying have similar psychological effects, victims of cyberbullying have been found to have a higher increase in suicidal thoughts and tendencies than those of traditional bullying.
In the United States of America, practically everybody can agree on the importance of the youth and their education. The youth and children of today are the future leaders of tomorrow. Although education, undoubtedly, is beneficial to America’s youth, there are some experiences, such as bullying, that negatively affect and stick with these youth for the rest of their lives. Certain children find an outlet for their frustrations through bullying others. In the past, these actions could be better controlled because they were limited to face-to-face interactions. However, due to the recent booms in technology over recent years, cell phones, social media sites, group chats, and other forms of technology have allowed bullying to expand into the Internet. This new form of abuse is known as cyber- bullying. According to the Online Merriam-Webster Dictionary, cyber-bullying is, “the use of electronic communication to bully a person, typically by sending messages of an intimidating or threatening nature.” This can be done through cell phones, computers, and tablets. Cyber-bullying may seem like nothing since there's no physical contact, but in reality it can hurt even more than the actual thing. The victims of cyber-bullying are real people with real feelings; and the bullying has led some to depression, and further more driven them to suicide. Cyber-bullying is a serious issue that negatively affects the youth today.
“Tiffany Witkowski, 17, is a rarity in her school — maybe in the universe — because she doesn't have a Facebook account. A senior at Von Steuben Metropolitan Science High School in Chicago, Witkowski quit Facebook after growing tired of classmates posting comments on her wall such as, "You're a suck-up," and, "You think you're better than everybody else.” "They would go to my boyfriend's page, and the next day at school, people would say, 'Oh, you and your boyfriend saw...” (Dawn Turner Trice | September 26, 2011. Chicago Tribune). Bullying has been engrained in American society since the country’s founding. Bred from a capitalistic economy and competitive social hierarchy, bullying has remained a relevant issue through the years.
Cyber bullying is a type of bullying that involves use of an electronic device as the mode of contact (Dooley et al, 2009). Irrespective of the cause of bullying, cases of psychological effects may result, which might lead to suicide by the victims. Victims of cyber bullying are more likely to exhibit depressive symptoms and problem behaviors, such as, bringing weapons to school; between the ages of ten to seventeen victims of cyber bullying are more likely to report substance abuse due to their increased depression and fearfulness (Leandra, Kris, Joel, Hayley, 2011).
Cyber bullying is when someone is tormented, threatened, harassed, humiliated, or just a target by a mobile phone or internet, most of the time, both. Cyber bullying can include anything from the list provided above, by text message, instant message, email, blogs, social websites, etc. As more and more children gain access to these, the more people are being harmed. Bullying is aggressive behavior that is intentional and involves an imbalance of power or strength. Usually, it is repeated over time. Normally, bullying involved actions such as: physical bullying, verbal bullying, or intimidation through gestures or social exclusion. Cyber bullying affects many young people all over the world to a point that the victims and their families and friends suffer serious emotional and physical problems. To help avoid future tradgeties, I would like to educate you more on what it is.
Bullying has become a global phenomenon as it steadily increases at an alarming rate. According to Karin Jordan and James Austin (2012) bullying is “an individual or a group (small or large) of more powerful individuals singling out and “picking on” an individual intentionally, repeatedly, and over time”, but cyberbullying surpasses this definition (p. 444). With technology being so easily accessible and encouraged, bullying has gone beyond the boundaries of the classroom and school bus into victims homes. There are eight different types of cyberbullying including flaming, harassment, denigration, impersonation, trickery, exclusion, cyberstalking, and happy slap. Each subsection defines the different methods i...
Within the world today, computers, phones, tablets and other technological devices form our everyday life. While many of these devices are important to our ordinary routines, they can be detrimental in many ways; one of these being cyberbullying. Cyberbullying, as described in Technology in Action is “the involvement of the use of digital technologies such as the Internet, cell phones or video to bully another” (Evans, Martin and Poatsy). For many years, cyberbullying has affected many individuals nationally and globally in which many have stepped in to help. Cyberbullying has become a challenge to the human society through mental, physical and emotional aspects, however in recent years there has been ways to pinpoint cyberbullying
Bullying by definition is a form of aggressive behavior in which someone intentionally and repeatedly causes another person injury or discomfort. Bullying can take the form of physical contact, words or more subtle actions. [Why] Bullying has grown new outlets over the last decade. With social media outlets and text messaging added to the game, bullying is not just about getting tormented face to face anymore. Cyber bullying can include sending out mean or threatening emails and instant messages about a person, spreading rumors about someone and also include photos that a person would consider to be humiliating. [Chamberlin] Bullying can have many outlets. The most common form of bullying is still face to face confrontation. But the other outlets, such as cyber bullying are definitely not something to take lightly or consider low on a scale of importance. Sexual harassment, racial differences, not being “cool enough”, or just simply being viewed as a weaker individual may attribute to many of the reasons a person is preyed 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
Bullying is an issue that has been happening for many years now, this is an ongoing issue. “The word “Bully” can be traced back as far as the 1530s. (Donegan 33). In its most uncomplicated sense bullying involves two people, a bully or intimidator, and a victim. The bully abuses the victim through physical, verbal, or other means in order to gain a sense of superiority and power” (Donegan 33-34). Bullying can happen among school children up to adults. “Bullying ranks high on the list of the tremendous challenges facing kids” (Kevorkian). Although most people who are the bullies are stronger who is attacking the weaker. Intimidators may possibly abuse their victims verbally, physically, or psychologically. Bullying
In 2006, national law enforcement leaders estimated that more than 13 million children and adolescents ages 6-17 were victims of cyberbullying (Feinburg and Robey 11). Unfortunately, by the time males and females become adults most have admitted to being bullied physically, emotionally or mentally. Bullies usually don 't understand the effects which they are fully creating and just think of themselves and the joy or revenge which they receive by bullying another person. Cyberbullying involves sending or posting harmful or cruel text or images using the internet, such as: instant messaging, e-mails, chat rooms, and social networking sites, along with other digital communication devices like cell phones. With bullying usually will come stalking,