Cyber-bullying is a form of bullying or harassment using electronics means. It has become gradually more common, especially among young people nowadays. Cyber-bullying is when someone bully or harass others through social media sites. Today, young people and even the adults are using the internet. The internet and mobile phones systems are the two biggest systems of communication which plays a crucial role in our daily activities and development of identities.
On the other hand, these same technologies are also often used negatively. Many young people are the targets of bullying via internet using social media resulting in total confusion on the part “target”. Very often, young people or teenagers are not able to understand that what they are going through is a form of bullying. As a result, the previously safe environment of the internet is now becoming a source of confusion, anxiety and depression.
In a large study, 40 percent of students who engaged in online bullying reported not feeling anything after bullying online, while only 16 percent of the cyberbullies reported feeling guilty. About 43% of young people report experiencing cyberbullying at some point. It’s a very difficult issue to avoid entirely, as 80% of teenagers use a smart phone regularly. That means they’re vulnerable to receiving harmful messages at any time.
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Cyber-bullying is easily seen and more accessible on social media sites just because of the social freedoms that the sites allow us to have. Studies have found that youth who bully face-to-face are likely to engage in online bullying. Thus, if a youth is bullying someone in person they might also be bullying others through social media. Cyberbullies do cyber-bullying because they can’t do it in person so certainly they do it online. Having also insecurities to a specific person could result to cyber-bullying because if he/she can’t have what that person has he/she will definitely bully that person through the use of social media.
According to the research bullies do cyberbullying also because of what they see around their environment. For example, seeing a scandal and asking for link, then after watching it, immediately post something bad about the persons who are involved in the scandal because they can see that people is happy and liking the idea of posting bad contents about the persons in the scandal. According also to the research, there are two types of bully, first the popular ones and second the social fringes. They do cyberbullying because it makes them very popular, and hurting others online can make them happy and feel powerful. Cyberbullies do bullying via online also because they enjoy bringing down a person’s life and they don’t want that someone else is successful while they are not.
According to the research a cyberbully shares much in common with his or her offline counterparts. Some additional reasons that people do bullying online it’s because of anonymity, ignorance of consequences, and social pressure. Cyber-bullying causes significant emotional and psychological distress.
In fact, just like any other victim of bullying, cyberbullied kids experience anxiety, fear, depression, and low self-esteem resulting to suicidal thoughts. They also may deal with having insecurities, lack of self-confidence, experience physical symptoms, and struggle academically.
But targets of cyberbullying also experience some unique consequences and negative feelings. Cyberbullying is really very cruel thing to do. Some effects of cyber-bullying are the discomfort of themselves, they feel sadness, loneliness anxiety and also go down to mental health condition like depression. If a person feels depress he/she don’t know what to do resulting to a worst thing which is committing suicide. Both exploit power imbalances to harass their victim. The potential to be anonymous on the Internet emboldens bullies and enables behavior that might not occur otherwise. Online bullies also have great advantage because of their easy access to a large audience through social media platforms.
According to our research, to stop cyberbullying young people should lessen the use of social Medias. Use the internet wisely and properly so that no one will be harmed. Stay out of a social media site that encourages you to cyberbully someone and torture people via online. Young people should engage more on physical activities in this way they could stay away from their smart phones and enjoy outside doing fun things and at the same time meeting new friends. Doing these things could make them feel better and far from having anxiety or depression.
The purpose of this research paper is to know the perceptions of the selected grade 10 students in ANHS and so that for the people to be aware that cyber-bullying or cyber stalking could cause a lot of problems and is needed to be solved. Cyber-bullying could harm ones’ people lives, especially the teenagers. This issue is now getting worse because every year there’s thousands of young people taking their life away and sad to say that it can’t and will never be back again. The researchers conduct this research to know what the selected grade 10 students in ANHS could say about this and if they experience something about this, so that the researcher would know what they feel and help them.
Cyber-bullying could affect thousands of young people. Many young people even don’t want to go to school because of cyber-bullying. Millions of young people around the world also don’t want to go out, to go to school, to socialize, and even couldn’t speak to their parents because they feel fear and is afraid to speak up. This issue in fact has a huge impact to the victims of cyberbully that leads them to commit suicidal activities and traumatize experience. Several factors make cyberbullying even worse than what parents may have experienced in their youth. The Internet makes it so simple for teenagers to bully each other so the researchers choose this to prevent and to stop cyber-bullying in order to save millions of young people’s lives around the world.
The researchers chose this topic because cyber-bullying is very relevant and is very cruel to our society. Cyber-bullying is a huge problem within todays time and although so much is being done to prevent it but records show that there are still mass amounts of cyber-bullying taking place under the radar. The researchers also choose this topic so that everyone would be aware about this issue. Although people might think that cyberbullying isn’t a very important issue, but the reality is that it affects young people more than adults are aware of.
Also, the researchers want to know what are the selected grade 10 students in ANHS will be able to do to help fight cyber-bullying and also if they experience something like this when they were still a teenager. The researchers want to aim the solution about cyber-bullying so that every child would be at peace and happy socializing in person or via online. Also, for the young people or even the adults to use the internet safely and properly.
