Cyberbullying

Carolann Seever
Prof. Addi
ENG 102

The United States citizen has a lot more to worry about than stolen credit cards and HIPPA violations. Identity theft is not just stealing Social Security numbers and obtaining lines of credit anymore. When a person hides behind a computer screen portraying to be someone else or even a person who doesn’t actually exist, it is considered to be stealing identity. Not only are adults capable of this fraudulent behavior, children have taken over and even more have fallen victim. Cyberbullying has created a multitude of hardships for children and parents. Parents are finding it to be almost impossible to prevent the type of bullying that their child receives from faceless harassment. Because they are used to being able to pick up a telephone and address the issue with the school, parents are finding it to be a drawn out process to halt this type of behavior. Children aren’t getting pushed off the monkey bars anymore. Facebook profiles and Twitter accounts are being created by classmates and used to cause great emotional harm to others alike. As Jan Hoffman explains it in her essay “As Bullies Go Digital, Parents Play Catch Up,”
It is difficult enough to support ones child through a siege of schoolyard bullying. But the lawlessness of the internet, it’s potential for casual, breathtaking cruelty, and its capacity to cloak of bully’s identity all present slippery new challenges to this transitional generation of analog parents. Desperate to protect their children, parents are floundering even as they scramble to catch up with the technological sophistication of the next generation. (31)
There are a couple different avenues to approach this behavior when a parent is the parent of a cyberbully. In cases, some parents do nothing to prevent or improve cyberbullying. They feel as though their child did no physical or emotional harm and refuse to accept responsibility for the damage caused to the other child. On the other hand, after overcoming the initial shock of acknowledging what their child is capable of, most parents choose to discipline their child by stripping them of their technology for a few months. Taking away iPhones and computers is not an effective method to correct the damage that has already been done. If cyberbullying was made more aware to families, the number of victims would reduce substantially.
Not only do parents fear of their child being bullied while on the playground at school, they are extremely fearful of what actually goes on behind the computer screen. Technology has enabled a dark and vicious side of adolescence that has horrified parents. Jan Hoffman also explains that “The Internet erases inhibitions, with adolescence often going further with slights online than in person”. Children no longer have to feel the effects of the emotional distress they have caused by simply typing harsh words to another child. They are not being held accountable for their words or actions. Technology has parents baffled, leaving them feeling helpless to address the problems it induces.
Bullying has taken on an entire new meaning with the uprising of the Internet, especially Facebook. Before technology, there were playground bullies. Names to go with faces. Since Facebook and the rest of the Internet, bullies remain faceless and cause far more harm. Children are wreaking havoc on others’ lives from behind a computer causing damage so much so as some children feel as if they have no way to escape it. Some have even committed suicide. Ponder that. Table
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