The Pros And Cons Of Cyberbullying

A recent epidemic is growing and the disease is spreading quickly, easily infecting others as it is simply passed from one person to another. From what we know, we don’t know what has caused nor that there is no cure to it. This phenomena is soon to consume and potentially destroy lives in the long run. This is the rise of cyberbullying.

The limitations of bullying no longer exist in the real world. It has been so called “revolutionized” as internet technology has been also included to aid in causing more pain and suffering upon the issue. It is to a point where information and technology can become deliberately, wittingly used to repeatedly harm or show deep hostility towards a particular group, individual, or an ethnicity.

As popularity exceeds upon the social networks, cyberbullying is equally spreading around the internet. Bullying originally involves verbal and physical abuse, but bullying that falls into cyberspace goes beyond those limits. Threats, sexual harassment, humiliation, mortification, racism are all introduced to these children and teens who use this digital technology.

With technology, there has been a variety of ways in which people can be harassed anonymously One vital reason for the repetitive and continued occurrence and widespread use of cyberbullying is due to the anonymous nature of it. It has become an appeal to these bullies as they are easily to hide behind the forms of abuse they post. Practically they are ghosts, many believe they are invisible and cannot be caught or contained. Anonymity allows the bully to someone is lives somewhere else. Due to the fact that they cannot receive a tangible response, it is hard to recognize the harm they cause and lack the repentance. Many victims don’t have any id...

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...e in a threatening manner and the reasons might be unquestionable. We can presume it could be his/her past or the environment that surrounds him/her. But unfortunately, we cannot see through a bully’s perspective of how they came to be.

Of course we will change, our basic sense of morality tells us it is wrong, and we will attempt to find an immediate solution. But at times we are foolish enough to not question if the victim is not the only who is suffering. Could it be the bully? Again, we don’t know their past events or actions. Maybe this could be a sense of retaliation of them being abused in society. After all, most bullies are made from being bullied.

Thus, cyberbullying is a widespread epidemic which leaves it victims in pain and agony. The repetitive amount of anonymous threats and harassment cause someone to go through depression or in some cases, suicide.