Cyberbullying: A 21st Century Health Care Phenomenon

Teens are especially susceptible to online bullying as they are going through a turbulent time of change and are often more self-conscious. These online attacks can leave deep mental scars and cyberbullying can be fatal. 20% of kids cyberbullied think about suicide, and 1 in 10 attempt it. Social media is also unsafe because it is addictive. 18% of people reported not being able to go more than a few hours without checking Facebook.

Bullying in Social Media Social media is a form of internet-based communication. Social media allows users to have conversations, share information, and create web content. There are many forms of social media, including blogs, micro blogs, wikis, social networking sites, photo-sharing sites, instant messaging, video sharing sites, poldcast, widgets, cyberspace, and more.

Cyberbullying is the intentional harassment by a group or an individual with the aid of the internet and technological devices that are invasive, for example, mobile phones. Bullying in the traditional form of the term has been around as long as capitalism and competition have existed in this world. In the belief that success and wealth are one and the same thing, capitalism advances bullying as a survival tactic among the citizens. Of worry, is the reason governments have waited for so long to realize that cyberbullying is just as harmful as traditional bullying. The prevalence of the cyberbullying problem is at an elevated level among teens. In major studies concerning cyberbullying, school going children are the majority of victims. In this

This is the first century and technology has never been better. It has become so advanced that it has opened up opportunities for jobs, learning, and bullying. It is now easier than ever to bully someone all hours of the day, and to make the bullying follow them wherever they go. Cyberbullying never used to be much of a problem, in fact it didn’t use to exist. But now with all the new technology, and all the freedom online cyber bullying happens everyday. Online it is so easy to bully someone without getting into trouble for doing it, this is why more bullying happens online than in person. This issue affects everyone being bullied, and it can happen to anyone. Cyberbullying is a big problem and needs to be solved, online speech should be limited because cyberbullying happens to so many people, it could help stop harassment, and it could help more people get involved.

The Issues Of Cyberbullying Ever since the internet was created, society has been obsessed with new technology such as: laptops, computers, and cellular devices. The new technologies provide information about a particular subject or the usage of social media. Social media is the best way to keep in touch with friends and family. But, it can also be reached by strangers and enemies as it is one of the main areas to target people and talk about another person, known as cyberbullying. The school should have the capability to discipline these bullies once the issue becomes out of hand because the issues of cyberbullying has caused students to be too distracted to focus on their education and has caught the attention of schools, the government,

Annotated Bibliography Brody, N., & Vangelisti, A. L. (2017). Cyberbullying: Topics strategies, and sex differences. Computers in Human Behaviors, 75, 739-748. Doi:10.1016/j.chb.2017.06.020 There are multiple strategies to cyberbullying, the most common strategies include public and private comments, photographs, and status updates. Cyberbullies use these strategies to make someone feel less than what they are.

In “What Adolescents Miss When We Let Them Grow up in Cyberspace, Brent Staples argues that as teenagers are using the internet for more of their social interaction, they miss out on real world experiences that help transition teenagers to adults. Staples provides examples from his own personal experience and studies that support his thesis. I agree with Staple's claim to an extent that teenagers are losing crucial social skills from interacting over a screen rather than actual face to face interaction. An important part of human interaction is reading emotions.

While Internet use is now common among all age groups, it is adolescents who predominately use the social communication

Social media is now a major outlet for bullying. Bullying has always been a problem, but not until the twenty-first century has it been on something that isn’t reality: the internet. Bullies can do things online like name calling, gossiping, or posting embarrassing or personal pictures. This is easier for bullies because it is behind a screen, they don’t have to see what harm they are causing by bullying online. It is the main form of bullying in 2016.

Schoolyard bullying, we 've all heard about it, but now thanks to social media we have a place where bullying can happen 24 hours a day. There are pictures and videos to be continuously reminded. While some may argue that social media and traditional media are great platforms to help fix the bullying epidemic, they both have various negative effects on bullying, both cyber and face-to-face. Now with social media, we can spread a video or pictures taken of bullying, bullying can continue even when you aren 't face-to-face with that person, and traditional media alone can spread almost a mass hysteria in certain bullying situations that have gone "viral". Bullying isn 't new, and it didn 't just start yesterday, but the growth is substantial due to the resources that make bullying go far beyond face-to-face.

Most people who use this type of bullying generally use it because they have more courage to say it over technology devices instead of face to face and they can be anonymous. Cyber bullying has had its consequences because it has become a cruel mean work and will most likely never end. (Gordon) (The Alannah and Madeline

The social media can solve the problem of teens’ isolation? Internet is an amazing thing that can connect people around the world become closer. Caused of advance technology, Internet can provide a convenient to people life such as business, currency, education or entertainment especially “social network.” People in this generation also like social media networking and tend to increase every year. According Data form Pew Research Center about the rage of age that using social media networking.

Cyberbullying is a growing epidemic that affects people in today’s society. In the first essay titled “Human Dignity” by Francis Fukuyama. Francis Fukuyama holds a B. A. in classics from Cornell University and has a PH. D in political science from Harvard University. Fukuyama puts the idea of Human Dignity to light and the idea of Factor X. Fukuyama describes Factor X as “ What the demand for equality of recognition implies is that when we strip all of a person’s contingent and accidental characteristics away, there remains some essential human quality underneath that is worthy of a certain minimal level of respect” (144). Meaning that there are many factors in what makes a human rather than just based off one factor. In the second essay that

Cyberbullying is a wide-ranging problem that affects all of society as technology continues to pave the way for interactive relationships. In the past decade the experience, particularly among youth, has led to increasing concerns among psychologists, social workers and policy makers alike while the general public (society) has been alerted to a serious health hazard. The complexity of the phenomenon cyberbullying and the variables related to it requires that numerous theoretical lenses be applied to further help understand cyberbullying, containing an ecological framework, social acquirements, and behavioral examination. Similar to traditional bullying Cyberbullying proves to be all about power, control, intimidation and acceptance. However, cyberbullying allows the bully to remain anonymous when perpetrating deviant behavior while through the sociological lens raises questions about the ethical use of technology.

Bullying has been a part of life since the beginning of time, but due to the recent rise in technology use there has been a significant shift in the kind of bullying that is taking place. Cyberbullying, which is bullying behavior that takes place through different sources of technology such as the Internet, mobile devices, or email, is taking over in the bullying world (Arnett, 2013). In this paper, current research literature on cyberbullying versus traditional forms of bullying will