Every year millions of people are harassed over the internet through email, social media networks, text messages, phone calls, etc.; this is known as cyber-bullying. Cyber bullying is an on-going trend for internet harassment that occurs 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, becoming the most common form of bullying today and is often taken too far to where it can drastically affect a person mentally and physically. In the article, “Cyber Stalking (Cyber Bullying) - Proof and Punishment”, Professor Wayne L. Anderson who teaches at Missouri State University states that “Cyber Bullying has expanded the Bullying behavior from the schoolyard to the Internet. In the schoolyard, Bullying tends to be more physical and confrontational. On the Internet, anything
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This is a characteristic that is almost exclusive to anybody who is a victim of cyber-bullying, and carries certain challenges. The convenience and potential of technology extends far beyond productive affairs; it also makes it easy to harm righteous people. In addition, this issue may affect people into feeling insecure about their selves and also causing them to have low self-esteem. . In the article, the author Ming-Shinn Lee, who works at the Department of Curriculum Design and Human Potentials Development in Taiwan, says that “Bullying has several social, emotional, mental health and academic effects. It results with depression, anxiety (individual and social), aggression, hyperactivity, academic discomfort and conduct problems at school” (“Cyber Bullying Prevention…2014). The material that Lee provides shows that, through progression in bulling, the victim is affected more than the bully can imagine. Too often the friends, relatives, teachers, or bosses of these innocent people do not understand the difficult dilemmas that the victims of cyber-bullying have. All of this results from a lack of restrictions from both the creators of the electronic devices or technology and the parents of the younger bullies. The inventors of these electronics should put restrictions on what people can and cannot do, especially when it comes to abusing and bullying people. The parents of …show more content…
The bully causes so much stress in the victim’s life that he or she makes all the happiness in their life turn into sadness, which leads them to view life as an undesirable place. The victim starts showing symptoms of depression when they start isolating themselves from family and friends, making them feel more alone than what they already feel. Feeling alone can cause people to not want to ask for help, which turns into stress that causes additional anxiety, causing a mental breakdown. In the article "Relationships Among Cyber bullying, School Bullying, and Mental Health in Taiwanese Adolescents", ", the authors Fong-Ching Chang, Ching-Mei Lee, Chiung-Hui Chiu, Wen-Yun Hsi, Tzu-Fu Huang, and Yun-Chieh Pan, explain that "Several studies suggest that victims of bullying were significantly more likely to report negative psychological health symptoms, such as depression and thoughts of suicide compared with those who reported not being bullied" (2). This fact provided by these doctors explains how cyber bullying may cause many negative effects on a victim’s mind, which then leads to depression. Depression is something that can be dangerous to both the victim and the people around them. Anxiety can make the depression worst and when already dealing with all that pressure there’s no need to add
This is a characteristic that is almost exclusive to anybody who is a victim of cyber-bullying, and carries certain challenges. The convenience and potential of technology extends far beyond productive affairs; it also makes it easy to harm righteous people. In addition, this issue may affect people into feeling insecure about their selves and also causing them to have low self-esteem. . In the article, the author Ming-Shinn Lee, who works at the Department of Curriculum Design and Human Potentials Development in Taiwan, says that “Bullying has several social, emotional, mental health and academic effects. It results with depression, anxiety (individual and social), aggression, hyperactivity, academic discomfort and conduct problems at school” (“Cyber Bullying Prevention…2014). The material that Lee provides shows that, through progression in bulling, the victim is affected more than the bully can imagine. Too often the friends, relatives, teachers, or bosses of these innocent people do not understand the difficult dilemmas that the victims of cyber-bullying have. All of this results from a lack of restrictions from both the creators of the electronic devices or technology and the parents of the younger bullies. The inventors of these electronics should put restrictions on what people can and cannot do, especially when it comes to abusing and bullying people. The parents of …show more content…
The bully causes so much stress in the victim’s life that he or she makes all the happiness in their life turn into sadness, which leads them to view life as an undesirable place. The victim starts showing symptoms of depression when they start isolating themselves from family and friends, making them feel more alone than what they already feel. Feeling alone can cause people to not want to ask for help, which turns into stress that causes additional anxiety, causing a mental breakdown. In the article "Relationships Among Cyber bullying, School Bullying, and Mental Health in Taiwanese Adolescents", ", the authors Fong-Ching Chang, Ching-Mei Lee, Chiung-Hui Chiu, Wen-Yun Hsi, Tzu-Fu Huang, and Yun-Chieh Pan, explain that "Several studies suggest that victims of bullying were significantly more likely to report negative psychological health symptoms, such as depression and thoughts of suicide compared with those who reported not being bullied" (2). This fact provided by these doctors explains how cyber bullying may cause many negative effects on a victim’s mind, which then leads to depression. Depression is something that can be dangerous to both the victim and the people around them. Anxiety can make the depression worst and when already dealing with all that pressure there’s no need to add