What is cyber bullying? Cyber bullying is the use of emails, instant messaging, phones, chartrooms, networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter, to harass or threaten someone. Children who have early access to these websites are often being cyber bullied or doing the bullying. Mostly older children are likely to be cyber bullied than younger kids. How can we identify bullying and cyber bullying?
The reports on cyberbullies, ruined reputations and dangers have caused so much fear against parents. They may also wonder how to be able to discuss with their kids regarding this issue. Teen suicide and self-harm are two leading effects to the cause cyberbullying. Teens may have serious thoughts of or attempt suicide various times.Teens may begin to drop weight and make cuts and bruises on their body. The self punishments for cyberbullying are becoming more serious everyday.
Experts have concluded that cyber-bullying can cause damage that is more psychological to people than the ordinary type of bullying, due to the incoming text messages and the feeling of being unable to escape from the online world. Cyber-bullying consists of hate emails, humiliating images threatened to be put up online for the whole world to see and a numerous amount of threatening text messages. Co-ordinator Sue Steel of the Anti-Bullying Alliance said that it infiltrates the home, taking away children’s safe spaces, and by taking away children’s safe spaces, it can have real life consequences for the younger generation. An incident back in 2009 highlighted the consequences of cyber-bullying, when, the 15-year-old girl, Holly Grogan jumped from a road bridge after a torrent of abuse on her Facebook page. According to Dr. Karen Douglas, the online world can be a very powerful tool to get the message out.
Bullying is a form of abuse that can take different forms at any range of age. This can be physical, verbal, social or cyber-bullying that can be direct or indirect. Children who bully have more power than children they victimise; this power can derive from physical advantage such as size or strength, social relationships such as higher social status in a peer group, systematic power such as racial or cultural groups, sexual minorities, economic disadvantage and disability. In addition, bullying can also occur as a result of stuttering, family background and personal behaviour by causing distress to victimised children. Four articles have been reviewed in total that focuses on the aspects of bullying and the detrimental effects children encounter when they are victims of bullying.
Bullying is associated with serious health concerns. Children frequently involved in bullying as bullies or as victims share a significant risk of suffering from various health problems such as anxiety, backaches, depression, dizziness, headaches, Injuries that require medical care, irritability, sleeping difficulties, stomachaches, suicide attempts and suicide. Research shows that bullies and their victims are also at risk for having attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
Child abuse has created massive sufferance of children and can cause negative outcomes through emotional instability in the mind and heart, painfulness of physical wounds, and can cause traumatic distress in the future. Although each parent and child may have their own problems, it is not fair if we let child abuse to happen because it can create senseless and complicated issues. Child abuse has created invisible pain to children’s emotions. According to the National Child Abuse Statistics in 2006, “80% of children getting abused can easily develop psychiatric disorders at the age of 21 such as depression, anxiety, and eating disorders.” The outcomes of a child being abused can create profound sadness, attempts of suicide, and can affect on his/her social life with others. “In Los Angeles 2003, Richard Jr. suffered abuse during high school at Don Boscov Technical Institute and resulted in depression and suicidal.” (Quinn) As a result, child abuse can bring down children’s self-esteem low and emotional instability in the mind and heart.
Students deserve to feel safe at school, however when they experience bullying, the effects can last long into their future. Some of these effects include: Depression, low self-esteem, health problems, poor grades and suicidal thoughts. Bullying causes both short and long term damage related to these effects. Not only are these issues the children have to deal with they also deal with physical problem obvious bruises or wounds from harassment, sleep disruptions, bed wetting, psychosomatic aches. Social Difficulty can lead to inapropreate social skills, social isolation, inaccurate social perceptions.
It will take a much deeper rethinking of what societies need to do for their children. Bullying – whether social, emotional or physical – is part of virtually all students’ educational experience. It can take many forms – physical attacks and violence, verbal taunts, name calling, teasing, put-downs, threats and intimidation, extortion of money or possessions and so on. Cyberbullying is another alarming aspect where cellphones and the Internet have made bullying more anonymous and unsupervised. Bullying behavior may be an indicator of difficulties at home.
Justin Elko Dr Jason Giulio English Comp 30 September 2014 How Cyberbullying is a problem for schools? Cyberbullying is defined as being bullied outside of school through the use of technology, which has become a very serious issue, due to the fact that children, preteens and teenagers are being bullied through mass texts, facebook, email, instant messaging. Face-to-face bullying has a different effect. Typically when in front of the student at school, things can get out of control through conflicts over many things such as a girl. This can result in the student being kicked, shoved into the lockers, or having your hair pulled.
There are warning signs of a victim of cyberbullying and a cyberbully. It is important to understand the warning signs in order to be able to help a child in this situation. Cyberbullying is a very dangerous behavior. It can cause many negative outcomes with the victim, including suicide. Parents, schools, children, and our government can work together to take preventive measures against cyberbullying.