Traditional Cyberbullying

Is Cyberbullying Worse Than Traditional Bullying? Cyberbullying is when a child, preteen or teen is tormented, threatened, harassed, harassed, humiliated or embarrassed by another child, preteen, or teen using the internet interactive and digital technologies or mobile phone. (“Stop Bullying”).Cyberbullying can be and is an everyday thing. 24/7 365 days young teens are victim to this situation leaving the victim often feeling as if they are alone, or as if they do not belong, they feel isolated and somewhat damaged. Face-to-face bullying, which can be monitored by a parent or teacher, is unlike cyberbullying, therefore parents and other adults are clueless on what is happening on the social networking sites. This makes it even more difficult
for the victim to be helped and cyberbullying to be prevented, unless someone is brave enough to step forward and tell what is going on. Cyberbullying can lead to depression, anger, humiliation, and suicidal thoughts,, thus making it challenging for teenagers to be educated on how to cope with the issues. Facebook and/or Twitter play huge roles in the internet abuse world, making it as simple as making a status or tweeting about someone who may not be as cool as the others.
Name calling, black mailing, the exposing, some of the things teens may not be aware of but are signs of cyberbullying. From personal experience, I see it every day, the jokes, pictures, videos of those who are unaware of what is going on. The person committing this crime may never know that this is cyberbullying and it can hurt the victims’ feelings. And for this reason teens should never allow photos, videos, or voice recordings of themselves to be sent or even leaked to another person, so much as leaving your mobile phone around an untrusted individual can lead to the act of
cyberbullying. There are numerous signs that a child is being cyberbullied. Anger frustration and hatred are a few. “No one likes you” “Go kill yourself” “Your Ugly” may not be a great deal of words but these simple phrases can ruin someone’s life. Speaking from experience, being called ugly several times in such short period of time can ruin your self-esteem, it can make you feel like you have no place on earth. To what extent do peers, parent, and teachers influence cyberbullying on adolescents? According to the article “Social Influences on Cyberbullying Behaviors Among Middle and High School Students” to explore this question, data were analyzed from a random sample of approximately 4,400 sixth through twelfth grade students (49 % female; 63 % nonwhite) from thirty-three schools in one large school district in the southern United States. Results indicate that cyberbullying offending is associated with perceptions of peers behaving similarly and the likelihood of sanction by adults. Schools have been struggling to find a way to end cyber bullying without violating student rights, is it hard to punish them because their freedom of speech?
No, because even though everyone has the freedom of speech, no one should get away with saying horrible things to another person. Many people believe what they do or say on social websites isn’t going to follow them in life, but it actually does. Colleges and future employers check websites such as Facebook and Twitter to see who’s going to attend their college and why should the get accepted or who’s going to be working for them and do they have professional
etiquette. Research shows that cyberbullying is a common problem amongst young people. Interactive technology provides unlimited options for young people to enter virtual networks, engage socially, and explore new learning environments (Luckin et al., 2008). This means young teens can freely do what they want on the internet without anyone even knowing. Unlimited internet and no restrictions give young teens the opportunity to say and do what they want and not get in trouble for it. Cyberbullying is a worldwide problem, whereby anyone with access to technology may participate in or be at risk of cyberbullying. Police never feel the need to step in when cyberbullying is involved. In Ottawa, Canada, there was a new cyberbullying legislation that gave police officers the right to hack into technologies such as, mobile phones and computers if there was any problem reported. While many children are cyberbullied, only one or a few are targeted at a specific time, the majority of children present are bystanders. In all types of bullying the role of the bystander is crucial- perhaps even more so in cyberbully(“Stop Bullying”).

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