Cyber bullying

It’s a fact, bullying has been around since order overruled anarchy and now we have the ever increasing problem of cyber bullying. The lack of monitoring system and increase in ways to communicate it was inevitable that bullying would become easier and occur more. Whether it’s recording a video of bullying on your mobile and posting it on social network sites or bombarding victims with torments on text message/email, it has caused more grief and depression than ever before.

Surveys would suggest there are high numbers of teens falling victim to cyber bullying and being too afraid to tell an adult or friend. Cyber bullying attacks you at home where you’re meant to feel safest from the outside world and when that is shattered then a person will feel completely helpless and alone. Monitoring all activity online is a major concern as well because of how vast the internet is, in reality there is just too much information for a monitoring process to work. There are things as reporting a comment or flagging inappropriate behaviour but that will only get the abusers profile deleted and not stop them from creating a new one and continuing to bully.

As this graph from the US illustrates both genders are equally effected in most areas and all results indicate about 50% of victims are not affected by the bullying but that also leaves the other 50% feeling the effects. Victims of cyber bullying tend to be young and vulnerable as well as impressionable, they will believe what they are being told and will not know how to respond to this type of anti-social interaction. At least when bullying wasn’t cyber the victim could look into the face of their tormentor and know who they are, one of the problems with bullying being cyber is that it could be anyone pretending to be someone else on their profile, there is no proof of who it is and that makes it difficult to know who is bullying and why.So will there be a stop to cyber bullying? Well like actual bullying it’s hard to stop and you may not even know it’s occurring, but measures are being taken to eliminate bullies online and hopefully cut down the suicides related to cyber bullying.