The Pros And Cons Of Cyber Bullying

Through the higher risk of depression, anxiety and panic attacks, bullying can have a lasting effect on a child, causing them to have a damaged adulthood. The effect is seen whereas adults who were previously a victim and a bully are fifteen times as likely have panic attacks, 5 times greater risk for depression, and 10 times the chance more of suicidal thoughts than adults who were uninvolved in bullying. Nowadays, bullying has a different stance through social media, allowing kids to bully without even being in the same room as one another. With the increased times kids see or talk to their peers through the internet, having a bully close to them has the possibility to become very harmful. Bullying can cause the bullied person to bully others.

Not only humiliated but frustrated from viewers comments. A reason why cyberbullying caused more suicidal attempts than face to face bullying is because it is public. To better understand the situation, that embarrassing picture, or video is now shown to the world. Now even more bullying and rumors are targeted for laughs.

Bullying has become a serious matter in the world today, And it has come to the point where suicide is an only option. But it’s not the only option. There are ways to get help, there are ways to solve this type of situation. Killing and suicide is definitely not the answer to anything.

Bullying is taking over the world as we know it. Bullying is harmful physically and mentally whether you 're meaning for it to or not. According to www.verywell.com, "When it comes to bullying, a lot of people blame the victim instead of the bully. For instance, some people think that victims of bullying bring it on themselves, that they cause the bullying in some way. "

1. Bullying is a behaviour that hurt ones either on the inside or the outside, with an aggressive attitude. (Services, n.d.) Bullying is usually done to help the bully feel bigger, better, stronger, ect. Bullying builds up ones self- image and breaks down another. A bully pick on people that are smaller than them in some way and usually bullies the perpetrator on a regular base.

Unwanted, aggressive behavior, among any age group classifies as bullying. Cyberbullying is another form of bullying that involves social media and electronic devices. In my opinion, cyber bullying is more severe because, at the end of the day, the victim can not get away from the issue. They go home to social media, what is now the center of our time, and it is impossible to escape the terror of being bullied.

An extensive nationwide study has found the impact of being bullied as a child persists far into adulthood and can lead to lower levels of education, physical and cognitive health problems and poor social functioning. “Bullying Effects Last Beyond Childhood” is a useful source because it shows how powerful words truly are. It also shows that just because you’re a child it doesn’t mean that being bullied will go away just because you’re an adult. Some of the long term effects of being bullied are lower levels of education and poor social functioning. Arehart-Treichel, Joan.

Bullying is a phenomenon existing as long as humans exist. The fact that it didn’t have a name for years doesn’t mean that it wasn’t a widespread way of behavior, in cases where two different types of people were involved ; the strong and the weak ones. Although bullying is considered as a form of aggression, or in some cases as an infringement of the human rights, “bullying is commonly regarded as an aspect of aggression”. (Roland and Idsoe, 2001), there are significant differences between them , the most important of which that “bullying is different from peer conflict. It is conflict between individuals that do not share equal physical and / or psychological power.

These examples illustrate that there are more disadvantages when being bullied face to face rather than cyberbullying. First, being cyberbullied is not as painful as face to face bullying. Secondly, the effects of face to face bullying stays with you emotionally, mentally, and physically. To begin, face to face bullying is more hurtful than cyberbullying. For example, the bullies target the students who stand out, due to their ethnicity, weight, and other characteristics, which makes that child the bullies main victim.

Cyberbullying victims are 2 to 9 times more likely to consider committing suicide. Cyberbullying victims have a lower self-esteem than people who are bullied physically. Cyberbullying can occur through a wide variety of different mediums, like phones are used so much by teens, 80% of teens use phones these days, making it one of the most popular forms of communication, which makes it a lot easier for people to be cyberbullied.”(http://nobullying.com/”). Covert or hidden bullying is kind of harder to recognize and can be carried out behind a person’s back.

Many people, as the author mentions, have experienced cyber-bullying and a lot of young people are not aware of the harm that they are causing by bullying someone, until the situations becomes very serious, almost irretrievable. The case of Jessica Logan, a high school senior who committed suicide after sending nude pictures of herself to her boyfriend is a typical scenario within our youth. After they broke up, the boyfriend posted nude pictures of Jessica on the Internet and she was harassed and called horrible names by other students at school. She committed suicide after attending the funeral of a boy who committed suicide. A lot of times, teenagers are not aware of the harm they are causing to others, even when clearly being told so.

After the many recent accounts of cyberbullying, many people debate the appropriate punishment policy. I believe the people accused of cyberbullying should not go to a criminal court. To begin with, the criminal record affects the accused for the rest of their lives. Sayer said, “These are not the troubled kids we sometimes deal with…

General academic debate on the issue of cyber bullying The amount of academic research focus on cyber bullying has been increased steadily as a result of the increasing prevalence of access to internet and social media. Gradually, two competing perspectives on the topic of cyber bullying emerged. Cyber bullying is a unique form of violence different from traditional physical bullying A number of scholars endorsed the perspective which considered cyber bullying to be different from traditional physical bullying. Specifically, cyber bullying is different from traditional bullying as its effects on the victims were more severe than the consequences of being victimized by traditional physical bullying (Bonanno and Hymel 2013).

Cyber Bullying has become an increasing problem in our society that threatens physical and emotional harm to ever greater numbers of young people. The sad fact is, some youths are so deeply affected by the negative influence of bullying that they have taken their own lives. Although suicides represent a rare and extreme reaction to bullying, it is a real issue that our children are facing today. Cyberbullying is often a factor in young people becoming depressed and having low self-esteem. Cyberbullying has been an issue, in the United States as well as everywhere throughout the world.

First, problems of the victim who face bullying can go worse when the bully torment the victim into feeling less confident. He/she will feel alone, not going to school, becoming sick or thoughts of suicide. Furthermore, students who cyber-bully or is self-involved bullies