Stop Cyberbullying Before It Starts

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

Over the years, people have been recording the amount of cyberbullying that has been happening to individuals (Stop Cyberbullying Before it Starts). They have recorded that forty-three percent of teens have been cyberbullied in the last year (Stop Cyberbullying Before it Starts). Around eighty percent of teens said that they either did not have parental rules about Internet use or they found ways to get around the rules their parents had (Stop Cyberbullying Before it Starts). Parents should take the responsibility to help keep their children safe online and be aware of what their teenagers are doing online (Stop Cyberbullying Before it Starts). Only eleven percent of teens went to their parents to talk about incidents of when they were cyberbullied (Stop Cyberbullying Before it Starts). The children may feel ashamed, embarrassed, and at fault for their bullying, causing them to not want to confront their parents about it (Janis-Norton, Noël). Adults are starting to realize that the teenagers are in a lot of emotional distress and are being affected in many different ways as well (Stop Cyberbullying Before it