Sunday, December 4, 2011
Cyberbulling
Because of the increase in teenage use of the computer, social networking sites, email and cell phones, cyber bullying is now a serious problem and is on the rise. Current estimates state that 13-30% of 14-17 year-old students have experienced cyber bullying (APA). What are your experiences with cyber bullying?
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Very rarely have I seen cyber bullying amongst people who know each other. BUT--that does not mean that cyber bullying does not happen. I have seen numerous accounts of cyber bullying on the website myyearbook.com. This website makes it easier to bully because most of the members do not know the majority of their “friends" personally. It is easy to belittle someone or harass others when you can post on forums and comment on them anonymously. Another factor that leads to the high level of bullying on this site is the fact that the bully will most likely never meet their victim. Bullying should never be tolerated and should always be reported to the site moderators, if witnessed.
Cyber bullying hasn't been much of a problem with me. I think this is because I make sure to delete people who bully me. I need to get this person off my friends list to prevent any bad happenings. Just because I haven't had an encounter, doesn't happen in this world. I have heard of several occurences on the news about cyberbullying. Sadly, most of them I hear are suicidal. Cyberbullying must stop because it is killing innocent lives. It just kills me inside to hear that another person is killed because of something 100% unnecessary! I pray for a stop for this.
As my age group has gotten older, cyber bullying has decreased. When we were younger and IMing was a new fad, it happened a lot more because you were contacts with everyone you knew, not just your close family and friends. Now that we have gotten more exclusive with who we are contacts with, the bullying has all but disappeared. It is easier for people to bully online because then they don't have to see exactly how their victims were affected. In person, you see every tear, which triggers the conscience at least a little bit. If you do witness or fall victim to cyber bullying, you should always report the incidence to the website moderators, and actions will be taken.
I haven't ever had a problem with cyberbulling. I know there is some people who do it, mostly unintentionally. There are some people, though, who do it for fun. They are people who have nothing better to do with their time and don't know how to keep their opinions to themselves. Cyberbullying is a hard thing to control from a person standing by and watching. Why, because you don't know how the person on the other screen is going to act to the message. That is way I think most people do it because they can't see the person emotions.
I have never had an experience with cyber bullying, but I am always aware that it could happen to me at anytime. Just because it hasn't happened to me, I know that it happens all of the time because of the stories on the news. The ones that I have heard of on the news have usually ended up committing suicide because they could no longer handle the bad talk about them. I feel that cyber bulling happens to kids in the age group of 14-17 because they feel that they can get away with anything and don't know the consequences for if they would get turned in.
When we were younger, it seemed that there was quite a bit more cyberbulling then what there is now. However, that does not mean that cyberbulling doesn't always happen. Sure enough I have seen cases where kids have decided to kill themselves all because someone bullied them in cyberspace. Honestly, I wonder if the person that is doing the cyberbulling even cares about how the person on the other end will actually take it. I feel that cyberbulling and bullying in person are two completely different things. Especially for the fact that in real life bullying the person doing the bullying sees how it affects the other person, but in cyberbulling the person that is doing the bullying can't see the affect. I really wonder what makes a bully decide to cyberbully someone. Would it be because they have a low self-esteem and don't feel tough enough to do it in person or do they think that it's funny to make someone feel so small because they know how to harrass someone behind a computer screen. I feel that that bully needs to not hide behind a computer screen because if they can't say it to someone's face then they really have no right in saying it at all.
I have never personally been a victim of any sort of online harrassment that I would consider cyperbulling. Of course, there will always be minor disagreements between friends when you are younger, but as my age has grown up and matured, the harassment as came to a hault. Now that doesn't mean that there are kids that don't get bullied online, but as for here at Redfield, I don't believe it is an issue. I realize that there are larger places that have more bullying, but I have never witnessed it. Since cyberbullying doesn't have to be done face to face it makes it easier to be a target of harrassent. Most kids don't understand that some young adults can't take the pressure of bullying. If ever witnessed, bullying should be reported at once.
i think it starts in the relationship with parents and family life style at home..parents should have talks with their kids about bullying and harrasment...but i think why even care about people you dont like and if people make fun of you i would go tell soemone rite away...
but we should as schools have a lot of talks as well and assemblies
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