Social Media Cyber Bullying in Young People

Running Head: SOCIAL MEDIA CYBER BULLYING IN YOUNG PEOPLE IN UK
Social Media Cyber Bullying in Young People between 11 to 18 years in UK
Name of the Student
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SOCIAL MEDIA CYBER BULLYING IN YOUNG PEOPLE IN UK
Introduction
The use of internet has undoubtfully bridged the gap and made the place a smaller world
with the sharing of information and the increased availability of resources to indulge in, it has
other side of the coin like any other issues in the world. The introduction of internet for social
media interactions did bridge the gap and enhanced a better understanding of other cultures, it
has had adverse effect in the way people led their life. More and more people getting acquainted
with technology also meant the technology getting into wrong hands and in no time we saw the
emergence of a new threat and a birth of a new division of legislation called the cyber-crime
branch. In no time, the younger generation discovered this life altering medium which gave them
access to unlimited socializing which was the major factor that went missing in the process of
modernization and the competition to teach children more in less time. They saw it as a mean to
fill the gap in their life and it was a break from the world of virtual gaming.
Interactive technology gave the young generation to seek communication which was
almost non-existing due to the highly competitive life led by the guardians in order to maintain a
certain standard of living. They lost themselves in the world of virtual reality and it gave them
the sense of liberation from the control of the elders and made them feel empowered. But with
this came the rush of the technology being misused and being used to abuse others. The loss of
privacy, bullying and harmful use of digital evidence to malign someone else’s character has
been few of the basic problem which has seen a major growth in the younger generation (Bryce
and Fraser, 2013). The essay will deal with the way the social networking sites are being
consumed by adolescent children and their impact on their physical as well as mental health. The
essays’ rationale is to find the understanding that the children possess of the different laws
regarding the act of crime over the net which falls under the category of cybercrime.

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Social networking and youth of UK
The growth and innovation in the technological advancement of the social adaptations of
the social networking sites by the children and adolescents in the United Kingdom as well as the
whole world has lately been assessed and evaluated by critics as well as the government. The
public and the private policy aspirations has been hugely banking and capitalizing on their
inclination to adapt to these technology. It has been continuously used as the medium to earn
popular and fast track the success of the innovation, apart from the traditional method of
socializing which already seems to be age old in spite of the fact that they were in trend simply
five to ten years back such as email, chatrooms, texting and messaging and blogging (Betts and
Spenser, 2017). But the new addition in the past in the form of different social networking sites
have proven to be the game changer.
The networking sites provided the agencies looking for advertisement on a global scale a
valid stage. The different networking sites letting the users be connected irrespective of their
geographical location made the sites such the Google, Facebook, Instagram, twitter, etc. a big
success. It provided the public policy aspirants to endorse their campaigns for the commercial
market which is based on targeted audience. The innovation no doubt seized the opportunity to
indulge in informal education on health and lifestyle mainly. The need for public policies
regarding the risks concentrating on the minds of young children regarding cybercrimes have
also been on all-time high (Cohen-Almagor, 2018). The public and private agencies endorsing
the social networking sites and the imminent problem about their focus on capitalizing on the
adoption by the young population the students in their teens especially.

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SOCIAL MEDIA CYBER BULLYING IN YOUNG PEOPLE IN UK
The Social Media
The current stance of the marketers and the business approach around the globe shows
that more and more advertisers are getting attracted to the social networking sites which helps
them to rope in future customers, workers, employers who are present in these sites. The social
sites which are not limited to open conversation such as the Twitter, Facebook and the new
addition of LinkedIn are categorized as the medium where the exchange of generators and users
are easily available. Social networking sites are all about communication over the net and is
prevalent under the masses (O'Keeffe and Clarke-Pearson, 2011). The use of the media has open
new stages and has almost blur the national boundaries when it comes to marketing and
interaction. The introduction of the option to share information on the net in the form of personal
messages and in the form of images was one of the huge success for the social networking sites
which expanded their growth and saw a huge rise in the adoption from the younger generation.
There are various forms of categorizations which have been made by the different
scholars and critics. Kaplan categorized social media into various forms and the system used in
them such as the blogs, social networking sites, virtual social worlds, collaborative projects,
communities and virtual gaming world. All of them have been successful and very easily blurs
the age limitation they are being utilized by for one of the major component of criticism is that
there is hardly any restrictions based on age limitation (Whittaker and Kowalski, 2015). The age
limitation has been observed to be realized by the user’s generated distinguishing. For the use of
blogs and twitter still stay limited to the adults for it deals with sharing ideas and information
which are more central to the life and concentrated on the topics of science and literature, while
the youth are more accumulated in the social networking sites which allows them to fill the
blaring gap of the social activities which become non-existing due to the immense pressure from