The Problem Of Cyberbullying

Fingers feverishly swipe across the keyboard, launching the rumors and insults about the new girl; no one knows anything about her, only that she does not fit into their life style. Today’s technology is made to send out a single text across the country, update a Facebook wall post within seconds, and become the face of cyberbullying that is infringing on society’s youth. With so much modern technology coming out every day, where does one begin to take control? Though old-school ways are still apparent, it’s the new faceless way of bullying that is rising up to the platform. The insulting tweet about the new girl never gave her a bloody nose or showed tears of sorrow, because cyberbullying is a blank screen to look at. Without any physical …show more content…
Although some may see the constant hounding as a rite of passage, research is finding that this harassment has become a major problem now that the world has gone virtual. With technology on the rise, bullying can now travel home with kids through text messages, e-mails, and social media making the oppression hard to get away from. Since almost every house hold contains a computer and teenager a phone, cyberbullying has no area restrictions or time limit, thus the constant harassment continues outside school where help may not available. What most people view as expressing feelings is a bullying technique used worldwide; an embarrassing picture or video posted to the social media site Facebook, posting a rumor of another peer, or sending a nasty text to the person on the right are all examples of cyberbullying. Today, apps on the iPhone such as Yik Yak and social media sites like Twitter are created to make slandering people easier and more anonymous, so that these forms of cyberbullying are legal and untraceable; though some will argue that a simple Twitter post is freedom of speech, the “civil right” becomes a problem when the tweet singles out a person and causing emotional harm. Social justice is about have equality for all of mankind, which includes equality treatment and distribution of power without discrimination against another person based on the categories of inequality. Cyberbullying directly relates to the devaluing of the categories of difference based on discrimination of gender, color, or sexuality. In the article, “Bullying in the Digital Age: A Critical Review and Meta-Analysis of Cyberbullying Research Among Youth,” Kowalski et al. said, “Research on traditional bullying has consistently shown that boys engage in bullying to a greater degree than girls, and the aggression is more often of a direct nature