In the story “Fan Club” by Rona Maynard, and the article “When Bullying Goes High-tech” by Elizabeth Landau, there are many connections with the topic bullying. Ashley and Rachel were both bullied by their classmates, but in different ways. We know this because on page five of “Fan Club” Rona states, “That was when Laura saw that they were all wearing little white cards with a fat frizzy, hairy figure drawn on the front, what did it mean? She looked closely, “Hortensky Fan Club” said the bright red letters.” While in “When Bullying Goes High-Tech” in paragraph 30, Elizabeth says that “When she was 11, a classmate of hers took photos of Ashley and created an entire Facebook page about her but denied doing it.
Social media can lead to many things such as cyberbullying, a person catfishing, or invasion of privacy. Many people tend to use social media as a way to bully people. Which isn’t a good thing bullying shouldn't exist at all. Not only that but people also tend to use social media to make a fake account to talk to someone or pretend to be someone else.
Social media does have to do a lot with how and why cyberbullying and cyber harassment occurs, especially now that many people have at least one social media.
It is a major throughout the country, because many people feel bad about themselves and are trying to make themselves feel better by hurting other ones and lowering their self-esteem. Cyber bullying is another problem, it started around the 2010s when technology started getting more popular throughout citizens. Many teenagers get bullied though online rather than in person since it is more popular. School bullying happens in an educational environment. Statistics show that 1 in 3 children are affected by bullying in their lifetime in the U.S. school system,
Loo Huan Ting ID #: 02359329 CMST 180 Tuesday & Thursday 2:20 11/13/14 Annotated Bibliography The invention of the Internet has created a new space for bullying. McClatchy, Komolafe Kaz. “States seek ways to fight newest form of bullying” St. Paul Pioneer Press. 25 August 2012:
Before cellphones and social media, bullying used to be pushing each other around on the playground. Since the evolution of the internet, cell phones, and social media, the amount of bullying has increased drastically. Kids are ganging up on others posting material on social media for everyone to see. It’s bad enough that people are being bullied, but bullying someone with a mental illness can cause them to commit suicide. Losing a life to bullying is incredibly tragic, and action needs to be taken to stop it.
“We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them. ”-Charles Caleb Colton. I love this quote because it almost summarizes what I will be talking about today. We’ve always been told to love others and accept them, but if you look around, it’s obvious that humanity as a whole hasn’t listened to this piece of advice. People often judge others by what they seem like on the surface, but if you search deep down and get to know them, 99% of the time your assumption will be wrong-to some degree.
Bullying has been happening for many years and still continues to happen. With all these technological devices around, it makes it easier for students and kids to get hold of devices and to use them inappropriately. According to the research, Electronic Bullying Among Middle School Students, the results show that in the last few months, 11% have been electronically bullied, 7% have bullied others and have also been bullied, 4% have electronically bullied others at least once and 78% have said that they had no experience with electronic bullying. This study also shows that the most common method for electronic bullying involves instant messaging, chat rooms and emails. Almost half the victims have also reported saying that they did not know
This is the first century and technology has never been better. It has become so advanced that it has opened up opportunities for jobs, learning, and bullying. It is now easier than ever to bully someone all hours of the day, and to make the bullying follow them wherever they go. Cyberbullying never used to be much of a problem, in fact it didn’t use to exist. But now with all the new technology, and all the freedom online cyber bullying happens everyday.
Cyber bullying has become worse than traditional bullying. In a recent article I came across had presented the topic of how horrible cyber bullying is becoming. This short phrase from the article Stated , “The Internet has changed, changing so much else. Now there is "Cyber Bullying, and although it is less physical than traditional forms of bullying, it can have more devastating and longer-lasting effects. It is rapidly becoming a major problem.”
Bullying has happened to everyone and even you have been bullied at some point and time of your life. Bullies seem to not realise that they are bullying and that it is hurting the victim. All around the world bullying can be found. For example cyber bullying has become another issue in America and other places in the world also. Not only online or during school hours
Annotated Bibliography Sarahi Ali Gutierrez Nevada State College Annotated Bibliography Annotation 1 Piskin, M. (2002). School bullying: definition, types, related factors, and strategies to prevent bullying problems. Educational Sciences: Theory & Practice, 2(2), 555.
There may be some reasons why social media is good for kids, but all and all social media is dangerous to the well-being and education of minors. To start with, social media is dangerous to kids that are online because people can be anonymous, predators, and/or cyberbullies. For example, Hinduja, a professor of criminal justice, at Florida Atlantic University says that about 20% of youth have been either victims or perpetrators of cyberbullying. Also, masking one 's identity on the internet make someone more likely to be a cyberbully (SIRS 1). Masking one’s identity can be a serious problem.
Our society, like others faces numerous social problems. Some are more recognized than others and are seen as social issues by the majority of the population. There are some we have been struggling with for generations, but have failed find a solutions to. There are also some issues that have only been recognized as a real social issues in recent years. The topic I chose is on that falls into that category.
Children are more intelligent than they seem. They go to school and unlock new secrets every day, and then come back home, overjoyed and happy. But the school isn’t just the place for them to discover this world, but it is also a comfortable environment for the to display their personalities. And from there relations are developed, the children usually turning into the bully and the bullied, a role set for most of their lives. And thus, the action of bullying takes form in our society.
