What is Cyber Bullying?
Cyber bullying is the use
of the Internet, cell phones and other technology to send or post content that
is intended to hurt or embarrass another person. The term “cyber bullying” is
used only when the bully and the victim are both under the age of 18.
(Reference: http://fundforcivility.org/cyberbullying-2/)
(Reference: http://fundforcivility.org/cyberbullying-2/)
For my 16 years of existence in
this world, I’ve never been being cyber bullied but I can’t deny that I didn’t
try it to another person. When I was in my high school days, I am very
fond of hacking other people’s Facebook. I crack jokes through their accounts.
(^___^) I know it wasn’t nice/good to do those things, but I was very
young.(*-.-) It was too late when I realized that I've been ruining the dignity
of the certain person. So I've stop hacking and cyber bullying that person.
(^__^)
I would recommend this very
inspiring short film all about cyber bullying.
Banning of
anonymous comments:
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For me, banning anonymous
comment would be a great idea and would reduce the amount of cyber bullying
publicly. But, it doesn’t change the fact that people can still bully the
person privately. The remaining anonymous accounts would still exist and can criticize
the certain person they’d like to bully privately. Although it is free to give
opinion and criticize people, because this is a free country. But at least we
could be sensitive to pick the appropriate words so the person would accept and
not be affected to your criticism.
Negative and Positive Aspects of the Freedom to
remaining anonymous:
The positive aspect of freedom
to remain anonymous on the internet world is nobody will ever bother to notice
you and start bullying you because they won’t even know who you are, while the
negative aspect of this is you can’t get in touch with the people you know
because it will blow your identity. And it would be an opportunity for you to
bully those people whom you didn’t get well.What other measures can be taken to reduce Cyber Bullying?
There are a lot of things that
can help to reduce the cyber bullying crisis, but the other remains unknown.
But for my own opinion, if you’d like to use social networking sites like
Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and others, you must privatize your account and
only add the people you know to avoid anonymous account that would possibly
bully you. And if the situation is on hand, you can try to confront the person who
is bullying you and see if they have the guts to say it to you; face to face.
Or you could report it the public officials of this country, and they will give
justice to your situation.I would like to recommend this http://www.mspy.com/stop-cyberbullying.html, Stop Cyber Bullying, this site could help you on your cyber crime cases.
What
role can parents play in reducing cyber bullying? Learn the signs?
As a parent they must teach
their children good values and should give guidance to their children to avoid
them from bullying or being bullied. As a parent they must be a good role model
to their children, be the source of kindness and respectful traits. At least
share your thoughts to them about the Cyber Bullying and let them lead their
way towards Anti-Cyber Bullying Campaign. Actually, some of the parents can't fully supervise their children in their daily use of the technology. So it is also the child choice if he/she would commit such crime or stay out of it and live his/her live simple.
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