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cyber_bullying.pptxCyber Bullying
Definition: The bullying that is done by using electronic devices like cell phones, computers, and other social media sites in the form of text messages, chats, posting which can affect the victims emotionally, physically, and psychologically. Harmful posting which includes threat, sexual remarks, one’s privacy disclosures through documenting or posting the pictures in vulnerable way are some of the ways cyber bullying could be performed.
Cyber bullying
Cyber bullying can be taken in various forms:
Harassment: By sending the offensive messages or threat repeatedly.
Denigration: Positing about someone’s by making some derogatory commands which affect in his/her private life.
Impersonation: Making someone’s fake identity, acting as that person, and using in inappropriate way to damage his/her reputation.
Intruding privacy: Taking someone’s secrets and posting in mass media or disclosing in public in embarrassing ways
Exclusion: Throwing out someone from group without any notification.
Cyber Bullying in Teens
Cyber bullying is most common in teens between the age of 13-18.
The obvious reason is about 95 percent of teens are more likely use social media sites like Facebook, twitters and others.
Cyber bullying can happen 24 hours a day and 7 days a week., and Teen are at more risk.
Research conducted by the Cyberbullying Research Center involving the size of 468 students revealed that females are more emotionally affected than males.
Cyber bullying and Privacy
Being the age of booming technology, social media dominated the whole world. Its getting harder and harder to keep the private things private.
In Facebook, a person can create a fake account, fake someone’s identity, and post inappropriately.
According to the New York Times, Lori Drew and her friend made a hoax account identifying a teenage boy “Josh Evan” on MySpace, which took a life of a teenage girl “Megan Meier”.
Some people simply post online whatever they like without knowing the consequence of their posting.
Advertisements in social media like Facebook could be more harmful in ethical sense. Because there might be chance the websites advertising might use third-party cookie to trap the user information.
Cyber bullying and preventions
Since children are more vulnerable of cyber bullying, parents, teachers and adults have primary responsibility to take of children at teenage.
Children are need to encourage to do the positive work with positive and make use social sites for the benefits.
The school administration staffs should be proactive and take necessary action to prevent the cyberbullying from beginning. Aa a saying goes, “Prevention is better than cure.”
Another way to ignore the bullying statements posted online.
Social sites should create awareness to use the sites in appropriate way or some legal actions should be taken ASAP.
