Traditional Bullying Vs Cyberbullying

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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. …show more content…

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

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