Cyber bullying is when someone writes humiliating comments about someone on the World Wide Web. Cyber bullying is when an adolescent is harassed, humiliated, embarrassed, threatened or tormented using digital technology, such as the computers, and cell phones. It’s important to understand why people use this type of bullying. Cyber bullying is used in an effort to make the person who is doing the bulling feel better about themselves, in a way that isn’t as confrontational. As many as 25% of teenagers have experienced cyberbullying, even though there is still more bullying at school in comparison to online.
Cyber bullying is legally defined as actions that use information and communication technologies to support deliberate, repeated, and hostile behavior by an individual or group that is intended to harm another or others. Many bullies and witnesses don’t know how severe the effects of cyber bullying can be. People who are cyber bullied often bring harm upon themselves by cutting themselves, or even killing themselves. Studies show that over half of teens have been bullied online, and about the same number have engaged in cyber bullying. Bullying is shown in all races.
CYBERBULLYING: A NEW WAY OF BULLYING Lenneke van Hassel Communication, class C1 Brigitte van Pelt- Hinkle Avans University of Applied Sciences CYBERBULLYING: A NEW WAY OF BULLYING Cyberbullying is a new way of bullying and is an easy way to insult people without being caught. The main problem is that cyberbullying is more threating than ‘real life bullying’ because the bully is often anonymous. It is a recent problem, especially among youngsters, and it is difficult to control for schools. Twentyfour point three percent of Dutch youngsters has been bullied via the Internet (Kerstens & Wilmsen, 2012). Cyberbullying is very strongly associated with the traditional way of bullying.
However, with the advancement in technology and its wide use, a new type of bullying has developed, cyberbullying, which is when a person uses technology and/or electronic devices to bully another person, typically by sending messages or posting comments of an intimidating or threatening nature. What makes cyber-bullying much more dangerous than regular bullying is that because if it on the internet, it will stay there for a long time and for everyone to see. What’s worse, is that the bully can easily hide under a different name or profile, making it harder to find out who is responsible in terms of facing consequences. It is very important to delete cyberbullying because when teenagers begin to abuse the convenience of the internet to harass others, it creates a very dangerous environment that extends outside the classroom or school. When someone is being harassed or embarrassed online, it reaches far outside of their world, and strangers all
This is similar towards Matt’s situation because he was accused for bombing the school and many kids would torture him. How does trying to commit suicide affect Matt’s identity? It affects Matt’s identity because he thinks committing suicide will solve all his problems and people would just leave him alone and forget him because he is dead. How dose committing suicides define Matt’s character? It defines him because he was always bullied at school ever since the incident happen
“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.
Cyber bullying is a worldwide issue and even the smallest things such as calling someone ugly or fat can cause them to take their lives. Most cyber bullied teens have reported to have committed suicide because of being made fun of and called names constantly over the
“No Mercy” speaks to administrators and educators who at some point should ask themselves, “Is zero tolerance always the best plan for disciplinary action?” In the article Gladwell does not suggest that there should be no form of punishment for students when they do something wrong; but that a zero tolerance policy might not always be appropriate. He suggests that a student’s history and individual circumstances should be taken into account. Gladwell’s first and most powerful example given is that of a Cambridge student that attempted to poison his tutor with a chemical laced apple. Under the zero tolerance policy adopted by many schools today he would have very easily been expelled from school but instead was placed on probation and sent to a psychiatrist. This was done due to the fact that administrators took into consideration that he had never done anything like
Essay Cyber bullying is a word you hear a lot and sometimes its never really dealt with right. Cyber bullying happens to nearly everyone once and it can be a very serious issue, cyber bullying takes place using a electronic device on instance messaging and social media sites such as Facebook and askfm. You all need to know that cyber bullying is bad and must be stopped! Cyberbullying is a serous situation because over two million people are online using social media incorrectly. Cyberbullying is different from verbal/physical bullying because people can use the disguise of “anonymous” to harass their victims.
In recent times, people have resorted to cyber bullying as there is a potential for a wider range of victims to inflict pain and suffering on as compared to the old-fashioned schoolyard bullying. This is because when victims are abused verbally, the victim might not remember every word the bully has said, but in the case of emails and text, chatrooms and websites the targeted students can read what the bully has said over and over again. Moreover, written words seem more concrete and real compared to spoken words.