Cyber Violance

"The saying, if sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will never hurt me was ever true, it sure isn 't true today"(Bazelon, 2013). Cyber violence has great negative impacts especially on young teenagers, such as posting offensive messages on Facebook or on cellular phones by teenagers. This paper is based on Facebook Scope and its outcome, due to other perspectives on Facebook and internet usage, for instance parents V school in children’s responsibility and should we ban Facebook or allow open accesses? However the new generation are extremely dependent on using technology and often involves everyday use. And due to the new technology kids are able to accesses internet easier and without parent’s supervision; this increases the risk of awful behaviour during internet usage, such as exposure to violence, pornography, cyber bullying and also drugs. A form of this kind of violence as an example can be based on verbal threats and this can cause a psychological effect due to cyber bullying and cyber victimization. According to a recent research made by professor Donna Cross 1 in 10 teenagers have been affected by cyber bullying in Australia, this includes posting embarrassing photos, sending upsetting messages, spreading cruel rumours, making fake profiles, stealing password accounts and many other forms of bullying mainly through social networking sites, for example a high level of Cyber bullying found on “Facebook” and via mobile phones. As Professor Cross stated that most Cyber bullying began amongst high school teenagers via internet and mobile phone usage and the type of cyber bullying is really dependant on the age group of those bullying and those who are affected (Perren et al., 2010, Courier, 2012).

The question for number one perspective is that: Should we ban Facebook for people under 18 to prevent cyber bullying? The registration for Facebook account is designed for people 13 and over, but there is no identification of prove of age it

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