Cyber Bullying
Bullying from a Distance
Statistics show that 77% of students are being bullied whether physically, mentally or verbally. Bullying is unwanted, aggressive behavior among school aged children that involves a real or perceived power imbalance. It includes actions such as making threats, spreading rumors, attacking someone physically or verbally and excluding someone from a group on purpose. Bullying is not uncommon in school, it happens frequently and is usually not stopped until its too late. There are different types of bullying that include cyberbullying, which is a type of bullying that can impact your social and emotional health. To begin with, a type of bullying is cyberbullying, Cyberbullying is bullying that takes place using electronic technology. Examples include, mean text messages or emails, rumors sent by email or posted on social networking sites, and embarrassing pictures, videos, websites, or fake profiles. Although a few mean words sent through text don’t seem dangerous or threatening, they can sometimes go too far and permanently damage the victim. An instance of cyberbullying is a 15-year old girl named Amanda Todd who committed suicide on October 10, 2012 because of constant bullying and hateful messages sent to her through Facebook.It had all started when she sent an embarassing picture of herself to a stranger after being pressured and the stranger sent it to every single person she knew. After that, Amanda Todd became the target of every bully out there. Nobody had really known that the bullying had affected her so much until it was too late and she ended her life. There have been more instances like Amanda Todd’s and there will probably be more if it is not stopped. Furthermore, there are many reasons to why people cyber bully each other. Some do it to make themselves feel superior to others and some to do it because they are being physically or verbally abused in some way at home. Why bully others when they know how wrong it is and when
Statistics show that 77% of students are being bullied whether physically, mentally or verbally. Bullying is unwanted, aggressive behavior among school aged children that involves a real or perceived power imbalance. It includes actions such as making threats, spreading rumors, attacking someone physically or verbally and excluding someone from a group on purpose. Bullying is not uncommon in school, it happens frequently and is usually not stopped until its too late. There are different types of bullying that include cyberbullying, which is a type of bullying that can impact your social and emotional health. To begin with, a type of bullying is cyberbullying, Cyberbullying is bullying that takes place using electronic technology. Examples include, mean text messages or emails, rumors sent by email or posted on social networking sites, and embarrassing pictures, videos, websites, or fake profiles. Although a few mean words sent through text don’t seem dangerous or threatening, they can sometimes go too far and permanently damage the victim. An instance of cyberbullying is a 15-year old girl named Amanda Todd who committed suicide on October 10, 2012 because of constant bullying and hateful messages sent to her through Facebook.It had all started when she sent an embarassing picture of herself to a stranger after being pressured and the stranger sent it to every single person she knew. After that, Amanda Todd became the target of every bully out there. Nobody had really known that the bullying had affected her so much until it was too late and she ended her life. There have been more instances like Amanda Todd’s and there will probably be more if it is not stopped. Furthermore, there are many reasons to why people cyber bully each other. Some do it to make themselves feel superior to others and some to do it because they are being physically or verbally abused in some way at home. Why bully others when they know how wrong it is and when