Cyberbullying: Impacts and Prevention
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IntroductionWith the advent of internet the way of doing work whether professional or personal has beenchanged. The introduction of internet was made to make the lives of human beings easy which infact it did. The inventors of internet knew that in future people will survive a day without foodbut not without internet [ CITATION vin \l 1033 ]. There is now rarely a sector, field, individual thatis unaffected by this wave of internet which now seems to be never ending[ CITATION Mar14 \l1033 ]. When there is abundance of benefits provided by the internet, there are a number ofthreats that it has shown to us. One of those threats is cyber bullying. Cyber Bullying or Internetbullying is that face of internet that we ignore. In cyber bullying a people sitting at one corner ofthe world can threaten a person sitting on the other corner. Cyber bullying has grown so fast inthe last decade that the number of deaths, suicides and other violent accidents occurred due tocyber bullying has grown from 9% to 19.5% in the last decade[ CITATION jen11 \l 1033 ]. Adefinition of cyber bullying is: Cyber bullying is the exercise of electronic medium such as Facebook, Twitter, Gmail etc to stalk, bully or to terrorize someone[ CITATION Dee10 \l 1033 ].Critical Analysis Now here we will study in deep about cyber bullying. Cyber Bullying as defined in the aboveparagraph is a practice of harassing or bothering someone through electronic media. Not even asingle country is free of such crimes. The easiest targets of such bullying are the teenagers or theadolescents[ CITATION Car13 \l 1033 ]. It has been seen that such crimes are committed by theyoungsters 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 theyharm them mentally and emotionally through cyber bullying[ CITATION Dan11 \l 1033 ]. Around20% of the teenagers in U.S have suffered from such bullying[ CITATION mah13 \l 1033 ]. Nowyou can imagine the fear of cyber bullying. Cyber Bullying is not only limited to threatening orharassing someone but it is also responsible for several deaths. In India around 7% of theteenagers, who committed suicide died of cyber bullying because the person threatening themhas something with him very personal about the victim (MMS, Personal Images). There aredifferent types of bullying and few them are as under[ CITATION Ser12 \l 1033 ].Flaming: Under this type of bullying the two parties, victim and the bully exchangeaggressive words between them online.Impersonation: There are many benefits of technology but everything comes with aprice to pay and same with the technology as it has various benefits on one hand similarlyit 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 tospread hate messages or sexually explicit images. Making Fun: Under this kind of bullying the bully tries to make fun of his target byposting mean or stupid comments in the pictures or profiles of the targets or by sendingthem personal text or instant messages.Online Stalking: When someone tries to stalk someone online by sending themmessages that harasses the receiver or by gathering each& every, little information aboutthem 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 guybecame her friend 1 year ago and in friendship, she shared her personal pictures and informationwith him, which this guy used against her by making her fake profiles and displaying herpictures online all over Bangladesh[ CITATION MIA17 \l 1033 ]As internet has reached to every house every country today, similarly the cons of it are notbehind[ CITATION Ann15 \l 1033 ]. Teenagers from each& every, country have been or will be thetargets of cyber bullying. The first ever case of cyber bullying was reported in 2008. Since thenthe number is growing like a tree. Below is Chart that shows the statistics of cyber bullying indifferent countries[ CITATION HAM15 \l 1033 ] COUNTRIESUNDER-12 YrsCYBER-BULLYING UNDER-15 YrsCYBER-BULLYINGUNDER-19YrsCYBER-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%
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