Cyberbullying: Impacts and Prevention

The assignment delves into the detrimental effects of cyberbullying, highlighting its psychological and social consequences. It emphasizes the importance of online safety, responsible social media use, and awareness of potential dangers. The paper also discusses measures to prevent cyberbullying, including education, open communication, and reporting mechanisms.

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Introduction
With the advent of internet the way of doing work whether professional or personal has been
changed. The introduction of internet was made to make the lives of human beings easy which in
fact it did. The inventors of internet knew that in future people will survive a day without food
but not without internet (kahn, n.d.). There is now rarely a sector, field, individual that is
unaffected by this wave of internet which now seems to be never ending (Mark, 2014). When
there is abundance of benefits provided by the internet, there are a number of threats that it has
shown to us. One of those threats is cyber bullying. Cyber Bullying or Internet bullying is that
face of internet that we ignore. In cyber bullying a people sitting at one corner of the world can
threaten a person sitting on the other corner. Cyber bullying has grown so fast in the last decade
that the number of deaths, suicides and other violent accidents occurred due to cyber bullying has
grown from 9% to 19.5% in the last decade (jenny, 2011). A definition of cyber bullying is:
Cyber bullying is the exercise of electronic medium such as Face book, Twitter, Gmail etc to
stalk, bully or to terrorize someone (Rana, 2010).
Critical Analysis
Now here we will study in deep about cyber bullying. Cyber Bullying as defined in the above
paragraph is a practice of harassing or bothering someone through electronic media. Not even a
single country is free of such crimes. The easiest targets of such bullying are the teenagers or the
adolescents (Johnson, 2013). It has been seen that such crimes are committed by the youngsters
individually or a group of adults or a psychopath are mostly behind such crimes. Nowadays it is
trend that the bullies’ follow that they don’t harm a person physically but they harm them
mentally and emotionally through cyber bullying (Krot, 2011). Around 20% of the teenagers in
U.S have suffered from such bullying (Pire, 2013). Now you can imagine the fear of cyber
bullying. Cyber Bullying is not only limited to threatening or harassing someone but it is also
responsible for several deaths. In India around 7% of the teenagers, who committed suicide died
of cyber bullying because the person threatening them has something with him very personal
about the victim (MMS, Personal Images). There are different types of bullying and few them
are as under (Serjeant, 2012).
 Flaming: Under this type of bullying the two parties, victim and the bully exchange
aggressive words between them online.
 Impersonation: There are many benefits of technology but everything comes with a
price to pay and same with the technology as it has various benefits on one hand similarly
it has various demerits on the other. Technology allows they bully to make fake profiles

of the victim which in known as impersonation. The bully then uses such profiles to
spread hate messages or sexually explicit images.
 Making Fun: Under this kind of bullying the bully tries to make fun of his target by
posting mean or stupid comments in the pictures or profiles of the targets or by sending
them personal text or instant messages.
 Online Stalking: When someone tries to stalk someone online by sending them
messages that harasses the receiver or by gathering each& every, little information about
them without coming into light is known as Online Stalking.
Statistics of Cyber Bullying
A most recent case on cyber bullying has been reported in Bangladesh, a person (identity hidden)
was impersonating a girl (identity hidden) 18years. The girl committed suicide as the guy
became her friend 1 year ago and in friendship, she shared her personal pictures and information
with him, which this guy used against her by making her fake profiles and displaying her
pictures online all over Bangladesh (BEGUM, 2017)
As internet has reached to every house every country today, similarly the cons of it are not
behind (Annoynomous., 2015). Teenagers from each& every, country have been or will be the
targets of cyber bullying. The first ever case of cyber bullying was reported in 2008. Since then
the number is growing like a tree. Below is Chart that shows the statistics of cyber bullying in
different countries (ALI, 2015)
COUNTRIES UNDER-12 Yrs
CYBER-
BULLYING
UNDER-15 Yrs
CYBER-
BULLYING
UNDER-19Yrs
CYBER-
BULLYING
S. NO NAMES 12% 26% 38%
1. AUSTRALIA 13% 20% 28%
2. SWEDEN 14% 30% 33%
3. INDIA 25% 32% 38%
4. SOUTH-AFRICA 15% 21% 28%
5. RUSSIA 20% 25% 33%

6. AMERICA 15% 22% 30%
7. CANADA 18% 33% 39%
8. NEW-ZEALAND 16% 29% 35%
Now as you can see in the above table the statistics of cyber bullying in all the prominent
countries of the world. It is a harsh reality that we all have to accept that internet have a darker
side that we need to cope up as soon as possible, else it will end up destroying the mankind
(Pappas, 2015). It was created for the sake of mankind but it will become the reason of
mankind’s end. In every country there is now a cyber bullying law enforcement department and
every social media sites come with a committee or a team that deals with such complaints
(Berny, 2015). If you use any social media platform, you may have seen a “report” button, if you
tap on it, you will be redirected to the complaint page of that particular social media site. So now
as we are going forward the techniques for coping up with cyber bullying are also increasing in
order to put an end on it (Patchin, 2015). Few are the steps that a person can follow in case
he/she is targeted by cyber bullies:
 Report: as soon as you find yourself in a situation where you feel like been targeted for
cyber bullying report it to the online community of that site.
 Keep Evidence: If someone has sent you text or instant messages, make sure you keep
those messages safe with yourself as an evidence to use them against the bully when
needed or demanded by the community or police.
 Report to law enforcement: Now every country around the world has made a different
department that deals with law enforcement only.
 No online information: Another thing that one need to keep in mind while using
internet or various social media platforms is to not to share his/her personal information
with anyone. This sharing of information can lead to serious cause of stalking or
harassing someone.
 Don’t respond: If on any social media platform someone unknown to you tries to be
your friend, or send you messages don’t ever responds to them. As people you may know
will personally ask you to accept you as their friend over social media.
There are no guarantees that, who genuinely wants to be your friend or who is intended to harm
your privacy by bullying you (jack, 2013). A person needs to follow all the above mentioned
advices in order to keep him/herself free from the tension of cyber bullying.

Conclusion
After observing and going through all the facts and statistics regarding cyber bullying a brief
conclusion is written here, Cyber bullying can be put to an end, if the teenagers start using the
social media platform as means of talking to their close ones only. Sharing personal information
or sharing your normal pictures can proves out to be harmful. Much more committees, rule and
regulations, law’s are need to be made, so that a person guilty of cyber bullying gets hard
imprisonment for destroying someone’s life. Internet if used properly will always give us its
benefits and if it miss-used then it is us (Mankind) only who has to bear its demerits.

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