“Bullying is a big problem that effects millions of students, and it has everyone worried, not just the kids on it’s receiving end” (Lyness 1). Bullying does not just affect kids, but the parents too. It affects the parents because a lot of their children begin to be afraid attending school. In the novel Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson, Melinda was affected by being bullied lead her to think about suicide, scared of coming to school, and victims like Melinda begin to not care about school and fail. Melinda was affected by being bullied and led to many things and one of them is thinking about suicide.
There are many reasons to worry about it. This social media is hurting our society in such way that it causing harm to one’s privacy, it disseminates misinformation, and effect on student’s grade. It is clear that social media is hurting our society by putting one’s privacy and security at risk. In the article “Teens Privacy Is Threatened by Social Networking” author Peter Bazalgette said, “Can you truly delete entries from social networking sites with the confidence they no longer exist on a server somewhere? You cannot” (Bazalgette p.1).
When children start to abuse the convenience of the internet by harassing other people, the internet becomes very dangerous. What makes cyber bullying so dangerous? Cyber bullying is dangerous because it has the ability to take the smallest incident and build up so much tension around it that it results in a murder or suicide. Some people may blame the victim for lacking self control and not being able to ignore the situation. Some people may claim it was just a joke and may blame the victim for being too sensitive or insecure.
Negative impacts of cyberbullying Cyberbullying has found to cause enormous harm to youth, which can be ascribed into impacts on personal well-being and psychological health. 3.1 Social well-being There are deep-rooted effects for bullies on their social well-being. In some cases, these impacts carry on when they enter the stage of early adulthood (Patchin et al., 2006; Kulig et al., 2008). A research done by Patchin and Hinduja (2006), reveals youth who were involved in cyberbullying, regardless of his/her role, had notably lowered self-esteem than children who had never or little experience of cyberbullying. Therefore, they display higher levels of antisocial, violent and/or criminal behaviour.
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.
Monica Reis EGL-311 Controversy Concerning Cyber Bullying In the 21st century cyber bullying has become a part of our everyday lives. It is deliberating harming an individual or group of individuals through information and computer technologies. This fast growing trend has some experts believing it to be more detrimental than typical school yard bullying; because of the “24/7” access society has with the internet. (Webster, Chris, 2007). A recent studied stated that approximately half of teenagers who are either in middle school or high school have been bullied through at least one source of electronic technology.
Even more critical than the benefits of social networks comes the negative outcomes of such social medias usage. Some risks to usage of social network include cyber bullying in which adolescents are singled out as outcast and site such as Facebook or MySpace are used as a source of humiliation for those adolescent with the ability for posting of false commits, and allow hostile and embarrassing information to be posted without the approval of those involved. Another common negative impact for adolescent’s usage of social networks is the increase in sexting which is defined as “sending, receiving, or forwarding sexually explicit messages, photographs, or images via cell phone, computer, or other digital devices” (O'Keeffe 2011). With an average of 20% of teens having sent or posted nude or seminude photographs or videos of themselves (O'Keeffe 2011). With the
A cyberbully is someone who bullies using electronic devices such as computers, tablets, and cell phones (“What is Cyberbullying”, n.d., para 1). The victim is the person targeted by the bully or cyberbully. Bystander(s) in bullying have a few roles, they are the ones that watch, but do nothing, watch and join in by laughing or making comments, observe the behavior and walk away, or try to help the victim out (Kids Involved in Bullying, n.d., para. 2). Bystander(s) in cyberbullying are the ones that see the text messages, emails, social media posts, pictures, and videos, but do not forward them onto their contacts.
In addition there is the danger of exposure to online predators. Facebook is a dangerous network site and taking the risk of using it will cause you harm in one way or another. The biggest risk to children using social networking sites comes from their own peers and from their own behaviour. The most pressing issue on Facebook is the cyber bullying and online harassment. According to Consumer Reports study, over one million children had been bullied online via Facebook in the past year.
Most teenagers in a European or western country owns a smartphone or a computer. This will automatically result in the victims not being able to escape, from the hate and the discomfort they are being put into. Also the bullies are hard to find, as they have this online mask or username, so they remain anonymous. Aleks writes that he thinks, the problem with cyber-bullying is the fact that you are anonymous. This digital mask, which the writer mentions, is the biggest problem.