Examples are instant messaging, text messaging, blog, emails, etc. cyber bullying through proxy is when the bully gets someone else to do their dirty work. Cyber bullying by proxy is consider the most dangerous type do cyber bullying because adults often get involved and majority of the time the adults are unaware that they are bullying a child. Statistics says that nearly 46% of kids have been bullied online. 70% of students report seeing bullying online.
Statistics show that 60% of teenagers are exposed to some sort of cyber bulling. I would like to quote a terrible incident that my neighbour was a target of serious emotional abuse where she put her home details online and she became of a serious assault and robbery. This has a psychological effect on young people. There are many different psychological problems that children could got through if they have been bullied physically or online things like a lack of confidence or them not wanting to socialize or worst case scenario suicide could occur, there has been a recent case of a girl called Amanda Todd who was bullied in her school and that made her change schools just to receive the same abuse this.
“Cyber bullying include mean text messages or emails, rumors sent by email or posted on social networking sites, and embarrassing pictures, videos, websites, or fake profiles” (what is cyber bullying, n.d.). One of the hurting cyberbullying stories is Jessica Logan was an 18-year-old Sycamore High School senior who sent nude photo of herself to her boyfriend which was rapidly through hundreds of phones in at least seven Cincinnati-area high schools after the couple broke up and the cyberbullying continued through social network as Facebook and Myspace till the teen hanged herself up in her closet (The cyberbullying story, 2011). Cellphones and computers are not to be blamed since they could be entertaining devices that could connect friends but these tools are also capable to hurt people, so the user chooses which way to use the device. Cyberbullying have lots of effects on teens since they could start taking drugs and alcohol addiction, have lower self-esteem, skip school, and receive low grades. Cyberbullying is different than any other crime since it is easy to do, it could reach a person even if he/she is alone on any day and any time through a message or a picture that could be distributed to a large number of people with several minutes and impossible to know the source, and very difficult to delete after its been posted on any
He was anonymously browsing the web, while provoking other users. It was a very gentle way of cyber-bullying. He sees the cyber-bullying as a problem of course, but also as a problem that can be solved. Nina describes how this type of bullying is the hardest to stop and fight, because in the modern world the Internet is hard not to come by. Most teenagers in a European or western country owns a smartphone or a computer.
Paper on Cyberbullying Texts(articles): Nina Lakhani: “One in five children is victim of cyberbullying” Aleks Krotski: “Hate and the Internet” Jan Hoffman: “Online Bullies Pull Schools Into the Fray” In the first text, we are introduced to an article describing the current situation in cyberbullying. The writer Nina Lakhani describes how cyberbullying has become an extremely viral phenomenon and how this type of teenage cruelty hasn’t been present until now due to the lack of technology. She explains why this is a serious threat to young people, due to the intensity of the bullying which is caused by the fact that teenagers are not able to isolate themselves from the bullying. Surveys have also concluded that the impact is much greater than with regular bullying because of how it can spread out to the rest of the world in however long it takes load a picture. Nina ends her article with three cases of cyberbullying causing the victim to commit suicide.
A bystander in these forums and other digital chat rooms, may think of it as funny that grownups and older teenagers can act in such form of childish behavior, but it is no joke, such actions can have real-life consequences, if one is being the victim of hatred in these forums every time or most of the times, it will lead to a lower self-esteem and insecurity in real-life. The issue of cyber-bullying is not easy to overcome, cause a solution to the problem cannot be found, though to the bad circle this digital
Dr. Larry D. Rosen of the California State University psychology department has been studying the effects of technology on people for more than 25 years. Rosen’s study “Poke Me: How Social Networks Can Both Help and Harm Our Kids” brought about worrying information on social networking. Adolescents and young adults who are tirelessly logged on to Facebook are prone to show psychological disorders, such as mania, paranoia, aggressive tendencies and amplified alcohol use. Research has also shown that social networking sites can be very addictive. The addictive nature of social media leads to eating disorders, obesity, heart problems, sleep disorders, and other pertinent health issues.
The attempt at suicide almost doubles for victims of cyberbullying than their non-cyberbullied counterparts (Hinduja & Patchin, 2010). Let’s take a look at the definitions of bully, cyberbully, victim, and bystander(s), because I believe a cyberbully evolved from a face-to-face bully. Bullying is unwanted, aggressive behavior that involves a real or perceived power imbalance and is repeated, or has the potential to be repeated, over time (“Bullying Definition,” n.d., para. 1). A cyberbully is someone who bullies using electronic devices such as computers, tablets, and cell phones (“What is Cyberbullying”, n.d., para 1).
1. Introduction In the information age, bullying is not only limited to attacking the victims in person but has expanded to the cyberspace. Cyberbullying has grown with the increasing prevalence of the use of the internet (Smith et al., 2008). Previous research has revealed that 87 percent of interviewees having witnessed others being cyberbullied and over 30 percent of them affirm that they have been cyberbullied (Cyberbullying Research Centre, 2016). Cyberbullying is found to cause enormous harm to teenagers.
They record the fights or arguments and post the video on you tube. Internet/bulling have opened the doors for others to use bulling on kids that are very sensitive to manipulate them or hurt them. You can say anything that you want to on the internet via social media and nobody can stop you. The bulling has driven some kids to commit suicide and they used the internet to search different ways of doing so. Response I agreed that internet at home has help children’s to have a completely different personality while using the internet.