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.
An Anon would post the MySpace of a person he didn't like and they would hack his profile, filling it with taboo pornographic images. The harassment extended to the real world, where they would leave threatening voicemails and send “black faxes” to the target's homes. One instance was reported on KTTV, a Fox affiliate in California, but the occurrences of cyber-bullying were common. Their first foray into activism was the raid on Hal Turner's (a white supremacist and Holocaust denier) radio show. After bandwidth attacks and constant prank calls to the show, Turner went off the
In many different tragic cases, this type of physical and emotional stress can really take a toll on a person so much that the ending results are suicide for the victim. There had been so many times that I had thought about suicide and that I had got so close but I was just too scared. Many can't say that about wanting to take their own life but I was honestly scared. There was times when I just didn't care and I would get so close and then I would get anxious and nervous and just step back from the edge of taking my own life. There are so many signs and symptoms of children getting bullied and I personally have experienced all of them.
“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.
Bullying in Schools and Online: A Growing Epidemic Proving to be Fatal Kimberly Futrell Harrison College Composition I Stephanie Kurin 06/10/2012 Bullying in Schools and Online: A Growing Epidemic Proving to be Fatal Each day, kids are being bullied in their schools and at home while online. They are bullied because of race, sexual orientation, creed, physical image, or for no particular reason at all. Bullying is not limited to age, but the most prevalent age range is teenagers. Bullying in schools and on the Internet amongst teenagers has greatly increased in the past years; this has led to increased fatalities because so many feel that they don't have anywhere or anyone to go to. These fatalities are not just suicides, but
Cyberbullying: Victim, Predator, and Bystander Cyberbullying has received a great deal of media attention lately due to an increasing number of suicides by the victims. These victims are so traumatized by the relentless taunting they feel the only way to escape their predator is to kill their self. Does this make cyberbullying worse than face-to-face bullying psychologically? I think it is worse. The attempt at suicide almost doubles for victims of cyberbullying than their non-cyberbullied counterparts (Hinduja & Patchin, 2010).
“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
Statistics have shown that the violence among young people is increasing every year. Many people blame musicians and other types of artists who portray negative actions as something positive. Others might blame the parents for not watching over their children. But many people fall short to bring up technology as an issue. With the new DVD that shows sex and violence or computers that gives kids access to unauthorized sites, technology is something that many parents need to look out for.
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.
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.