As social media continues to expand and change, the unswerving usage among its networking sites in adolescents has also augmented. These social media sites permits its youth to explore a new form of entertainment and communication in a way to expand their knowledge over certain interests, trend or insightfulness. As the consistencies of these social networks develop, growing concerns of prospective issues such as cyberbullying among adolescents are also expanding in a manner that has led numerous disastrous results over its developing years. As the expansion of this prospective issue occurs, the risk of adolescents becoming victims of aggression, harassment, and isolation under its networking influence, is as high to those that are victimized
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Out of the ten participants, they all ranged their social media usage between nine and ten hours a day, making them more susceptible at being either victimized on social sites, or becoming themselves the aggressors. One out of the ten randomly selected participants was found to be a victim of cyber bullying, and their experience has brought the attention of the negative aspects and influence social media is capable in creating. The anonymous female participant detailed her experience as “harsh, exploiting, and nerve-wrecking”. Her experience with cyber bullying involved multiple individuals from her past High School and on its creation of a false profile account that included various pictures of the victim and also on new created edits from her past exciting pictures. The false profile consisted of defamed remarks regarding to her personal life, and friends. The constant harassment and threats that were directed to her via social media and on school grounds caused her to feel great distress and have depressive symptoms, which also caused a great growth of disinterest in going to school. Once her parents became aware of the situation, they began to get involved with the school regarding to this issue, and …show more content…
When asked about any ways that can possibly help the prevention of cyber bullying, many similar answers were given. I concord with most of these results and add on more suggestible solutions that can further prevent emotional, psychological distresses, and disastrous events such as suicide among adolescents because of its usage on social media. These solutions include providing awareness to schools and websites on the effects of cyber bullying, and trying to get parents involved in a manner that will not limit the usage of social media access to their adolescents, but in a manner that can make them prevent any form of inappropriate actions via web or device. Although, the prevented factors were identified previously, its suggestive preventions can also lead in an unsuccessful manner, such as having psychological effects that include depression, anxiety, and behavioral conduct (Hyland, Guckin, Lewis, 2012). Depression would be the factor that is known to be most prominent in cyber bullied victims, followed by anxiety, in which contains a higher risk of possible victimization when a student or adolescent shows signs of withdrawal and social anxiety among their peers, along with conduct behaviors that are associated with the issue itself. (Hyland, Guckin, & Lewis,
Out of the ten participants, they all ranged their social media usage between nine and ten hours a day, making them more susceptible at being either victimized on social sites, or becoming themselves the aggressors. One out of the ten randomly selected participants was found to be a victim of cyber bullying, and their experience has brought the attention of the negative aspects and influence social media is capable in creating. The anonymous female participant detailed her experience as “harsh, exploiting, and nerve-wrecking”. Her experience with cyber bullying involved multiple individuals from her past High School and on its creation of a false profile account that included various pictures of the victim and also on new created edits from her past exciting pictures. The false profile consisted of defamed remarks regarding to her personal life, and friends. The constant harassment and threats that were directed to her via social media and on school grounds caused her to feel great distress and have depressive symptoms, which also caused a great growth of disinterest in going to school. Once her parents became aware of the situation, they began to get involved with the school regarding to this issue, and …show more content…
When asked about any ways that can possibly help the prevention of cyber bullying, many similar answers were given. I concord with most of these results and add on more suggestible solutions that can further prevent emotional, psychological distresses, and disastrous events such as suicide among adolescents because of its usage on social media. These solutions include providing awareness to schools and websites on the effects of cyber bullying, and trying to get parents involved in a manner that will not limit the usage of social media access to their adolescents, but in a manner that can make them prevent any form of inappropriate actions via web or device. Although, the prevented factors were identified previously, its suggestive preventions can also lead in an unsuccessful manner, such as having psychological effects that include depression, anxiety, and behavioral conduct (Hyland, Guckin, Lewis, 2012). Depression would be the factor that is known to be most prominent in cyber bullied victims, followed by anxiety, in which contains a higher risk of possible victimization when a student or adolescent shows signs of withdrawal and social anxiety among their peers, along with conduct behaviors that are associated with the issue itself. (Hyland, Guckin, & Lewis,