Cyber Bullying: Worse than Traditional Bullying
Bullying basically refers to an unwanted and aggressive behavior where someone actually uses their power over someone in a forceful way (“What”). However, bullying is a broad term and in order for us to understand it more, bullying is divided into two main types. The two main types of bullying are the cyber bullying and the traditional bullying which include physical bullying, verbal bullying, and psychological bullying. However, although cyber bullying and traditional bullying are both types of bullying, they still differ in a number of ways that actually makes the cyber bullying look worse. First, one of the main differences between traditional bullying and cyber bullying is its anonymity.
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Traditional bullying incidents are mainly seen by a number of witnesses where the bullying incident happened. Also, if it happened, it is barely known by a lot of people – unless it was posted or addressed in social media. Also, one of the advantages of traditional bullying compared to cyber bullying, is that you can actually have more power with the situation in traditional bullying as you can possibly stop it from reoccurring or spreading because you already know who the bully is. With cyber bullying however, as long as a person has an access to the internet, the incident can easily be seen, shared, and talked about with the people you might not even know – the more people who knows about it, the more possibility of having more bullies. Nonetheless, given as an example in an article published by stopbullying.gov, “a federal government website managed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services,” they narrated a story of bullying that actually went viral afterwards [mainly because of the internet] that actually made the whole scenario worse: “A girl’s classmate created a fake social media account in a boy’s name, and began an online relationship with her. Though she had not met him in person, the girl divulged personal information about herself and her family to this “boy”. The classmate who created the fake account then shared the personal …show more content…
Cyber bullying looks worse in a way that cyber bullying can possibly hide the bully, the incident can go viral, and their victims can possibly lose their safe zones. However, although cyber bullying looks worse than the other, we cannot still get rid of the fact that they are both types of bullying. With that said, it does not really matter which is worse and not, with the fact that they are both types of bullying and we probably all know that bullying is never good, we should stop it; we should stop and prevent the
The word “bully” is defined: “a blustering quarrelsome, overbearing person who habitually badgers and intimidates smaller or weaker people”("Bully"). Bullying can be mainly divided into traditional bullying and cyber bullying. There are three major types of traditional bullying: verbal bullying, social bullying, and physical bullying. First, verbal bullying is when one uses language to offend or gain power over their peer. Some of the major examples of verbal bullying would be teasing, name-calling, taunting, and sexual harassments. Another form of traditional bullying is social bullying, which is the act of hurting someone’s social reputation or hurting his or her relationships. The third type of bullying is physical bull...
In document C, the school suspended the student, but that was because the student caused a threat against the targeted student, S.N. If the student did not target S.N. and say the students name and harm her directly then there would probably be no suspension. J.S created a MySpace profile (“the profile”) making fun of her middle school principal, James McGonigle. The profile did not name the principal or his school, but did include a photo of him and contained some vulgar and offensive language. J.S. did not name the principal or the school, she did not directly target the principal even though a photo of the principal was on the page.
In the article “Cyber-bullying Is Worse than Physical Bullying”, Meech discusses how harmful cyber-bullying is because of the long term effects it has on a child or young adult. He then uses a few statistics to illustrate his main point. “In March of 2006 statistics showed that 75 to 80 percent of 12 to 14 year olds had been cyber bullied”(Meech). That means this problem is occurring more and more in today’s youth. Unfortunately it’s difficult to stop the cyber-bullying from happening because often times they can’t identify who it is spreading rumors or making threats. That means that if a parent wanted to report the harassment, most times kids make up a fake name or a fake account so they can harass anonymously and that would make it hard to catch the culprit. Meech begins to discuss...
There three more main types of bullying that I have not mentioned in the above. They are prejudicial bullying, sexual bullying and cyberbullying. (Gordon,
Cyber bullying can be overt or covert bullying behaviours using digital technologies, including hardware such as computers and smartphones, and software such as social media, instant messaging, texts, websites and other online platforms.
The Department of Health and Human Services gives definitions to each type of bullying. Physical bullying is the aggression most commonly associated with bullying. This is any type of physical harm such as hitting, kicking, or spitting. It also would include theft of objects. Verbal bullying would involve name-calling, teasing, threats and inappropriate sexual comments. Social bullying would be deliberately excluding someone from a group or activity, spreading rumors about someone, and embarrassing someone in front of others. Cyber-bullying is a newer classification and involves using social digital media to bully. This type of bullying can encompass verbal and social bullying but is done through technology. Cyber-bullying frequently involves social network sites such as Fa...
There could be bullying at school and online. Bullying is being mean to another kid over and over again and making them feel like less of the person they actually are. There are four different common kinds of bullying: Verbal, Physical, Relational, and Cyberbullying. Verbal bullying is bullying with cruel spoken words, involves ongoing name-calling, threatening, and making disrespectful
Bullying by definition is a form of aggressive behavior in which someone intentionally and repeatedly causes another person injury or discomfort. Bullying can take the form of physical contact, words or more subtle actions. [Why] Bullying has grown new outlets over the last decade. With social media outlets and text messaging added to the game, bullying is not just about getting tormented face to face anymore. Cyber bullying can include sending out mean or threatening emails and instant messages about a person, spreading rumors about someone and also include photos that a person would consider to be humiliating. [Chamberlin] Bullying can have many outlets. The most common form of bullying is still face to face confrontation. But the other outlets, such as cyber bullying are definitely not something to take lightly or consider low on a scale of importance. Sexual harassment, racial differences, not being “cool enough”, or just simply being viewed as a weaker individual may attribute to many of the reasons a person is preyed on.
Unlike traditional bullying, it can be constant bullying because it is done through the use of cellphones and social media. Most kids have these tools available. It is easy to cyberbully because all you need to have is a fake account to connect with other people. To back this up Melissa Tortorici, Communications Director for the school district of Texas City states, "Today's young adults and teenagers have grown up with technology and they have access to it 24/7. Many times they become very bold over technology and text things they would never say directly to someone's face," Another reason it is easy to cyberbully is the bully can remain anonymous which makes it harder to find evidence to assess and convict the tormenter. An online bully can make things worse if they have a clique with them like the anecdote about the Untouchable Mean Girls. This is where a group of girls tormented Phoebe Prince because she dated the ex-boyfriends of those girls. Phoebe is not alone, 58% of kids admit someone has said mean or hurtful things to them online. More than 4 out of 10 say it has happened more than once. According to bullying statistics stated by stompoutbullying.org. Although if the online bully is convicted they could have severe consequences like being expelled from school, lose scholarships, or maybe even end up in prison. This new trend of bullying has long lasting
Cyberbullying may affect a person more because the person may have to deal even when they get home from school. If you are being cyberbullied keep the evidence and show someone. If you are tired of looking at the mean comments turn your phone or computer
Bullying has always been an issue in schools across the country, but now bullying is starting to enter the cyber world (Stop Cyberbullying Before it Starts). It was found in recent years that social media is the main cause of cyberbullying (Negative impacts of Social Media). It use to be that children were bullied at school, but then they went home to a safe haven, this is no longer the case with bullying exactly because of social media (Janis-Norton, Noël). Cyberbullying is using the internet or technology to post or send images with the main goal being to hurt or embarrass someone (Stop Cyberbullying Before it Starts). Bullying online can also be much worse than face-to-face talking because teens are more anonymous and have a lesser chance of
Technology has given individuals the opportunity to change the game of bullying. Cyber-bullying is one of the most common forms of bullying as of today. The Internet has no boundaries so the public has access to endless and countless number of things. Cyber-bully is the electronic posting of mean-spirited messages about a person (as a student) often done anonymously according to Merriam-Webster dictionary. While traditionally bullying and cyber-bullying are very comparable in forms of technique that also have many differences. Cyber-bullying gives the bully the benefit of hiding their identity behind a screen. This makes it easier to tear people down because they do not have to come in contact with anyone. It’s the easiest form of bullying. These can happen in text messages, chat rooms, email, websites, excluding people from certain online activities, digital photos, and social media. Cyber bullies have unlimited supplies of ways to hurt someone. It is difficult to conduct a study on cyber-bullying because the majority of people will not confess or admit to it. Instead, in the article “Cyber-bullying among adolescents: Measures in search of a construct.” Researchers sit and listen through the grapevine on what is going on inside of schools. They found out that cyber-bullying is more dealt with within adolescents than traditional interaction bullying. (Mehari, K. R., Farrell, A. D., & Le, A. H.) Cyber-bullying can cause more
Cyber-bullying can occur at anytime, and anywhere through cell phones, text messaging, videos, emails, blogging, Facebooks, Instagram and more. With all the different communication channels and social medias, It can be used to insult, spread rumors, impersonate, and
How it all starts is with a computer, cell phone or any kind of device that involves connecting to the internet. Anonymously someone makes a fake account then searches for an innocent child to bully or expose. It can be your best friend or anyone that just wants bother you behind a screen. No matter how much you try you won’t be able to find out who it is; it is best you inform the police, teachers or a parent. Bullying really does lower a child’s self-esteem and can be harmful mentally, eventually physically.
Although it’s pretty obvious when you walk into a school and there’s no harm being done to any of the students, by anyone meaning it, there’s always people that will beg to differ. Some people think that actual bullying that you see in the hallway is worse than cyber bullying, like Amanda Lenhart quotes, “Overall both boys and girls say that kids their age are more likely to be harassed offline.” When asked teens, the majority of teens, 67% said that bullying and harassment happens more offline then online. Less than one and three teens (29%) said that they thought that bullying was more likely to happen online, and 3% thought it happe...