The Dangers of Cyberbullying

In this essay I will explain to you what cyberbullying is, where you can find it the most, and why you should stop it. Cyberbullying has been around for a long time and can be used to in many ways. I personally have never dealt with someone cyberbullying me, but I have had friends that went through it and I can say to you it was very rough for them and I don’t wish that upon anyone. The reason that I am writing about this is because I was to aware the reader that this is a serious problem and many people think of it as a joke because they think if its online you can just block them and be done with it but it’s not that simple.

My goal for this essay is to inform people what it is and how you can help stop it.

Cyberbullying is bullying that occurs on cell phones, computers, and tablets. It can also occur through text, social media, and video games. Some of the forms of cyberbullying is sending, posting negative or harmful tings about someone knowing that I will affect the person’s life in a large scale. Some forms of something that can be harmful is posting something that is private to the person that no one else knows about. Something personal would include a story of something or a private conversation between that person and someone else. According to StopBullying.gov, a place that we often see cyberbullying is on social media (Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and Snapchat) and through Text Messaging.

According to Comparitech, in 2018 the united states has 28 accounts of cyberbullying to this date. This is a decrease since 2016 which was 34 accounts of cyberbullying. The United States has the 3rd highest accounts of cyberbullying violence in 2018 it is under Brazil which has 29 accounts of cyber bullying and India which has 37 accounts of cyberbullying. Other places don’t have such high accounts of cyberbullying because they have certain laws that are very strong and have punishments for bullying someone. According to Cyberbullying.org, the United States started to lower their cyberbullying count is because almost all the states in the U.S have put laws that give punishments to people that are found bullying someone in anyway but especially online.

In the world 87 percent of today’s youth have seen someone being cyberbullied. Which if you think about it this is not the way that kids should be growing up. Kids should not have to worry about anything being a teenager you have no worries you are supposed to enjoy your life and make the most out of your younger years and that is something that all people should experience. During my childhood I never experienced being bullied over a computer, but I have been bullied in person. I can feel the pain that other feel the only difference with me was that I was able to gain strength in myself to confront the person that was doing it to me and I made him stop doing what he was doing. The only reason that people do this I personally believe is because in some way they are very insecure about themselves and they feel like you have a better life then they do. They want you to not enjoy your life because they aren’t.

According to Teensafe, 34 percent of students say that they have experienced cyberbullying while 15 percent of students admit to cyberbullying others. That number does not make sense if you think about it. How can 15 percent of students admit to cyberbullying others if 34 percent have experienced it. I believe the reason for this is because people know the punishment for bullying someone else, so they do it, but they think that they will never get caught for what they did. Those people don’t think before they do, they don’t know what them saying can do to a person. They don’t understand you can cause this person to kill themselves or if they went to the police then that person can go to jail for a long time, ruining their life.

I believe if schools talked to the students about it but really talked about it not just a quick overview of what it is and how you should go to an adult and tell them, then who knows if this will be a huge issue in the future. As of right now 24 percent of kids don’t know what they should do if they are getting harassed online. One of the things that most mobile services will tell you to do is to enable your privacy settings, so people can’t see your account. Actually, 39 percent of kids don’t enable their privacy settings. If they did this, it would be one way of preventing cyberbullying before it even started to happen. Some other ways of preventing it from happening is to block the person if he/she does contact you and immediate tell someone and they you can go from there.

The common knowledge for the people that get cyberbullied the most is girls and that is completely correct. Girls are 41 percent more likely to get bullied online then a boy is which is 28 percent. This is completely understandable because most people attack girls because they are more sensitive at this age and become more fearful of what could happen while man because of the whole male masculinity in the world take it as a joke. The most common place for a girl to get bullied online is on their comments on photos or on snapchat. While most of the time for men it happens on video games because that is where most guys are. If a man is attacking a woman online, they will most likely put up photos or videos that they know will hurt the person they are trying to get it to.

In conclusion cyberbullying is a big problem in this world and should be taken very seriously if you know someone who is dealing with it right now. To review if someone you know is getting bullied online you should contact an adult or if it is serious go to the police and explain the situation. If you want your chances of getting cyberbullied to decrease make all your social media accounts private, if the person request to follow you make sure that you know who they are and if you don’t just ask your parents if they are a friend of the family. If you don’t have your account private and they contact, your immediate block them and tell an adult what just happened, and they will know what to do. I hope this helps you understand what cyberbullying is and what to do.

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