EFFECTS
OF CYBER BULLYING
The important issue of today’s world concerns is cyber
bullying. Cyber bullying is related to all technological devices and social
media sites such as Facebook, Twitter or so on. Especially, in recent years
many teenagers effect on cyber bullying by means of social media. “In 2013, for
example, a spate of suicides was linked to the social network Ask.fm, where
users can ask each other questions anonymously.” (Pappas, 2015, Live Science) Stephanie
Pappas states in his article. This is an essential issue because social media
is used by everyone and generally teenagers commonly. Bullying is happened in
primary and high school. Before social media sites were not used quite widely,
bullying was limited in school hours and rumours. However, now teenagers can be
bullying at any time and sharing information about somebody on account of
social media sites. These situations may give rise to depression or suicides
between teenagers. When they are looking at their photographs or information on
Internet, they fall into depression themselves. They cannot talk to their
parents or families because of the fact that they are afraid of losing access
the social media sites. In the article, this issue is explained in detailed
ways and showed the scientific researches. The author shows us to the
information about cyber bullying. He thinks that this is a important topic for
everybody and also teenagers do not just use a cyber bullying. I agree with the
author because teenagers can use the social media for collect information or
communicate with peers or family members. The cyber bullying brings about some
serious problems for teenagers in terms of social and academic lives
negatively.
First of all, social life is about living society. For
teenagers, the living society is the environment of school generally. The
school is the first level of the society actually. Cyber bullying affects them
negatively because they can be alienated by their peers. This situation triggers
to the depression or suicide. For example, if one student becomes isolated in
the school due to cyber bullying or bullying, s/he can think that s/he is
lonely all the time in the society. S/he can be embarrassed for her/his appearance,
race or religion between her/his friends. In addition, cyber bullying affects
teenagers’ relationships with the family members. They cannot share their
concerns or problems about bullying with their parents. They may not
communicate with their parents effectively. All these situations give rise to
becoming isolated to the society and the family.
Secondly, academic life is started to the high school.
This is because the high school grades determine their future. Therefore, the
students are responsible for many lectures. At the same time, they have to meet
cyber bullying. For instance, the hardworking students who are liked by their
lecturers or teachers can be meeting bullying. They are target as a result of
their achievement or appearance. The students who are affecting negatively have
difficulties for the lectures or grades. They can lose their self-esteem in
this way. Under these circumstances, they could go into depression probably. As
a consequence, they do not think about their future or career.
To sum up, cyber bullying has a lot of negative effects
and results for teenager’s not only social life but also academic life. The
crucial problem is how to prevent bullying in the school actually. The effects
of cyber bullying are increasing day by day according to researches. (Pappas, 2015,
Live Science) If cyber bullying is not prevented now, much more people affect
inescapably in the future.
REFERENCES:
Pappas, S. (2015, June
23). Social Media Cyber Bullying Linked to Teen Depression. Retrieved April 4,
2016, from http://www.scientificamerican.com/article
/social-media-cyber-bullying-linked-to-teen-depression/
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