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.
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.
According to Jemica Carter’s article “Cyberbullying: A 21st Century Health Care Phenomenon,” 30% of people have been bullied during school, and 82% using an online social networking such as Facebook. It is more relevant to adolescent to use social media to bully others because there is any face to face contact. Sticca approach in her article “Is Cyberbullying Worse than Traditional Bullying?” Social networking is mostly used to bully other because there is an increment in the audience and it is also sometimes anonymous and less
McClatchy writes for a national newspaper in Minnesota and is currently drawing attention to cyber bullying. She explores new methods to combat this new type of bullying, which is derived from the internet. This article provides examples on several solutions that have been employed by different states to resolve the issue. Many state governments have come up with new laws requiring schools to construct policies to counter cyber bullying. The article also quotes a professor from John Hopkins University’s Bloomberg School of Public health; he states that the increased usage and reliance on the Internet and smartphones will have a big impact towards cyber bullying.
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
Apps like Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter, Facebook, and Buzzfeed can cause a decrease in the overall products of students’ works and an increase in the amount of time needed to complete the product because of the incessant notifications that show up on an individual’s screen every five minutes. In a 2011 study conducted by Wade Jacobsen and Renata Forste on “Academic and Social Outcomes of Electronic Media Use Among College Students,” they concluded from more than 1,000 undergraduates that 2.45 hours are spent on the internet, and an hour is usually spent watching television. High school students spend roughly about 2.3 hours on technology and media everyday, and as new media platforms come out, more time is spent on them. The temptations of answering someone or looking at who liked your picture on Instagram causes great disruptions in studying and workplaces. When a student’s final product is not up to the standards or is incomplete, it can severely affect their grades in school.
Bullying is a major issue facing today’s youth. Over the course of the past few years bullying has become such a concern that many states have adopted laws against it. However, the issue evolves as time goes on and now cyber bullying exists. Cyber bullies can insult others over the internet with no need to be nearby the person they are insulting.
Social “Networking” Social networking. Sites like Facebook, twitter and Snapchat claim that by a “social network” they connect people wherever they are, but in reality, I think that it is more like a spider net, where while connected, people are glued to the “net”, chatting through it, and if they are not cautious, they slowly get consumed by it. Facebook’s “Login” page shows a picture of several people connect to other people throughout the globe, symbolizing the ease at which people can connect to each other - as long they know each other’s language - almost seamlessly.
Every minute, three hundred forty-seven thousand tweets are sent out to Twitter (TwitterFacts, 2013). The obsession the world has for Twitter has caused controversy because of some tweeters mistreatment, and could be argued to be a destructive app. Social Media can be used positively through expressing creativity, connecting with friends or family, and finding commonalities that can be enjoyable to look at or read about. Twitter is not an appropriate social media app for teens because is causes self image to down-spiral leading to depression and suicide, eliminating face-to-face communication, and is becoming a huge time waster.
One of the biggest issues of online communication is cyber bullying. It is defined as, ‘‘the use of information and communication technologies to support deliberate, repeated, and hostile behavior by an individual or group, that is intended to harm others” (Baas, de Jong, and Drossaert, 1). There is so much anonymity online which makes it difficult for cyberbullying to stop. From personal experience, I have been cyberbullied on social media websites like Youtube. People commented hurtful things on my videos, I was fifteen at the time, so I did not tell my parents.
Fast innovations, such as the Internet, are constantly changing how people interact. Although this development has been approved human beings to make great progress in many areas, they have also allowed the form of violation to become more widespread. This is evident when looking at how traditional bullying has grown became today's issue known as cyberbullying. Although bullying and cyberbullying are often similar in shape and their technique also has a lot of difference. Unlike traditional bullying, cyberbullying allows offenders to close his identity behind the computer.
The most frequently noted topics of cyberbullying is romantic relationships, friendships, sexual activity, and personal appearance. Every child has their own demons and weaknesses and when one of their “topics” are targeted on an online setting it makes it nearly impossible to escape. Bully’s target kids that can’t fend for themselves
Social media and social networking play important roles in people’s lives. The way of living life from the past generation to the current generation is changing unquestionably. Children are raised up with electronic devices, such as iPods, iPads, smart phones, laptops, tablets, computers, and so on. A student from California State University of Las Angeles, Yzzy Gonalez has written an essay “Technology Taking Over.”
Bullying is a widespread problem in our schools and communities and has a negative impact on students’ right to learn in a safe and secure environment without fear. It is a process in which one person repeatedly uses his/her superior strength or influence to mistreat, attack or force another person to do something (Van der Werf, 2014). Bullying or peer victimization is now recognized as a complex and pervasive problem (Beran, 2009). It is an ongoing problem that is not restricted by age, race, gender or class. This behavior generally takes one of four forms, physical such as assault, verbal which involves threats or insults, social which entails exclusion or rumor spreading, and cyber which includes aggressive texts or social network posts
In “How does smartphone” (2015), the article explain that the teenager who keep tracking for social media update and message do not get a good sleep at night. Next, the smartphone addiction can affect teenager’s studies. Teenagers who are addicted to smartphone will find themselves hard to focus on their studies. The games on smartphone required them to keep online and playing so that they can clear the stage in those games faster. Some of the teenager even check for social media notification in their class.