Social Media Bullying: Modern Warfare
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A lack of self-regulation and potential susceptibility to peer pressure, many young individuals today are at risk of succumbing to social media and the hazards that come along with it. A significant portion of individuals today are digitally prone to head towards technological advances such as social media as a form of interaction (O 'Keeffe & Clarke-Pearson, 2011). Cyberculture has become second nature in society. It has become the groundwork for much of the multicultural understanding. Web-based information is what people now turn to for speed, convenience, and overall depth. The Internet has a pivotal impact on society today. The availability of information has been enhanced due to updates in technology and because of this a sweeping progression of how people see each other and the world has taken on a direction of its own ("Cyberculture: Society, Culture, and the Internet - How We Live, The E-generation Gap, The Internet And Work Culture, Cyber personalities In Virtual Communities," 2012). The Internet has become an entryway into how people understand events ranging from diseases such as diabetes to issues such as social media …show more content…
It also discussed Amanda Todd and what happened with her. The blogger, Justin Patchin, talked about how many individuals feel that they cannot handle the impact of being bullied on social media and the stress related to it. Social media bullying makes people feel helpless and increases the risk of individuals ' who are being bullied to feel as if they will be the talk of the school or town. Patchin concluded by asking those who feel they are being bullied on social media for any reason to ask for help and finds someone they can trust to talk