Tandang Sora Integrated School

Caloocan City

CAUSES AND EFFECTS OF CYBER BULLYING

By
Audrealein A. Manito

A Research Paper in English 10

Presented to
Mrs. Dalisay G. Ocampo
February 15, 2016
 Outline

I. Introduction

A. Significance of the study

B. What is cyber bullying?

II. Example of Cyber bullying

A. Online Threats
B. Posting unwanted pictures or messages

III. Effects of cyber bullying

A. Depression
B. Suicide or kill he/her self

IV. Solution to stop Cyber bullying

A. Limiting access to social media

B. Block the person
C. Tell it to your parents

V. Conclusion
Bibliography

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I.Introduction

"Cyberbullying involves the use of information and communication technologies to support

deliberate, repeated, and hostile Behavior by an individual or group that is intended to harm
others"
Cyberbullying is different from traditional bullying due to the anonymity that the Internet
can provide. Cyberbullies do not have to own their actions due to the anonymity and
cyberbullying is often outside of the legal reach of schools and school boards since it often
happens outside of the school. There are different forms of cyberbullying. These forms include
flaming, harassment, denigration, impersonation, outing, trickery, exclusion, cyber stalking, and
Cyber threats.

Significance of the study

Although school bullying has been around for decades, the issue of cyberbullying is still
very new to researchers and educators. As a result, there are few cyberbullying 12 research
studies available on the topic, and intervention strategies have not had time to be properly
evaluated.
This study is significant because it aims to provide school leaders and policy makers with
information on how to proactively create policies that decrease the prevalence and negative
effects of cyberbullying. School officials are still struggling on how to properly intervene when
made aware of instances of cyberbullying, and a great deal of that struggle centers around their
hesitance to take action on behaviors that do not occur on the school campus.

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(Smith et al., 2008; Beran & Li, 2007). p. 1

(Ybarra et al., 2007; Feinberg & Robey, 2009) p.11

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What is Cyberbullying?

Cyberbullying is the use of cell phones, instant messaging, e-mail, chat rooms or social
networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter to harass, threaten or intimidate someone. Cyberbullying
is often done by children, who have increasingly early access to these technologies. The problem is
compounded by the fact that a bully can hide behind user name, disguising his or her true identity. This
secrecy makes it difficult to trace the source and encourages bullies to behave more aggressively than they
might in a situation where they were identified.
Cyberbullying can include such acts as making threats, sending provocative insults or racial or ethnic slurs,
gay bashing, attempting to infect the victim's computer with a virus and flooding an e-mail inbox with
messages. If you are a victim, you can deal with cyberbullying to some extent by limiting computer
connection time, not responding to threatening or defamatory messages, and never opening e-mail
messages from sources you do not recognize or from known sources of unwanted communications. More
active measures include blacklisting or whitelisting e-mail accounts, changing e-mail addresses, changing
ISPs, changing cell phone accounts and attempting to trace the source. Because the use of mobile and
online communications has grown so rapidly and the crime is relatively new, many jurisdictions are
deliberating over cyberbullying laws. However, the crime is covered by existing laws against personal
threats and harassment. In some cases, it may be advisable to inform the local police department or
consult an attorney. It is not recommended that you retaliate in kind because such behavior can lead to
heightened attacks, or even civil actions or criminal charges against you.

II. Example of cyberbullying

Bullying has had a widespread effect on human interaction. It has even become a
tactic for sales and marketing. In an ever-changing world that is making the transition to
becoming digital it is important to protect yourself from bullying on and offline. Cyberbullying
hurts just as bad or worse than physical bullying because the audience ans shame is
compounded by the net connectivity, virtually everyone may be able to bear witness to
Cyberbully attacks. Examples of Cyberbullying can be seen on various social media outlets
such as Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube. The key to stopping the problem is learning to
recognize it. Specefic examples of cyber bullying is like, Posting unwanted pictures or m essages to
social media outlets, Sending harassing text messages , Creating fake accounts to impersonate
someone else, Accessing private files or folders on personal computers.

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“cyberbullying”  Monica Lewinsky's TED talk about cyberbullying

“ (Ybarra et al., 2007)

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III. Effects of cyberbullying

Cyberbullying on social media is linked to depression in teenagers, according to new research

that analyzed multiple studies of the online phenomenon. Victimization of young people online
has received an increasing level of scrutiny, particularly after a series of high-profile suicides of
teenagers who were reportedly bullied on various social networks. In 2013, for example, a
spate of suicides was linked to the social network Ask.fm, where users can ask each other
questions anonymously. The deaths of teens who had been subject to abuse on the site
prompted Ask.fm (which was acquired by Ask.com in 2014) to launch new safety efforts.
Twitter, likewise, announced plans in April to filter out abusive tweets and suspend bullying
users. Social media use is hugely common among teenagers, said Michele Hamm, a researcher
in pediatrics at the University of Alberta, but the health effects of cyberbullying on social media
sites is largely unknown. Regular, face-to-face bullying during the teen years may double the
risk of depression in adulthood, and bullying's effects can be as bad or worse than child abuse,
studies show.

Despite the fact that extensive research has yet to be conducted to help fully understand the
effects of cyberbullying, scholars have concluded that, at the very least, children who are
targeted by cyberbullying display negative reactions that are similar to those of children who
are victims of traditional bullying. In fact, it could be argued that the effects of cyberbullying are
even more damaging than those of traditional bullying since victims cannot as easily escape the
wrath or their tormentors Since these cyber attacks become permanent once they have been
introduced to the online world, students may in fact experience a prolonged sense of
victimization because of continually revisiting the incident, thus leading depression and other
types of mental disorders.

Cyberbullying has been linked to multiple maladaptive emotional, psychological, and behavioral
outcomes. The physical and metal effects of cyberbullying vary depending on the victim, but the
consequences include low selfesteem, anxiety, feeling sad, being scared, feeling embarrassed,
depression, anger, truancy, decreased academic achievement, an increased tendency to violate
others, school violence, and suicide. There is a relationship between Internet harassment and
depressive symptomatology, with targets of online harassment reporting more frequent cases
than non-targets.

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“Cyberbullying on social media” Stephanie Pappas, Live Science Contributor 

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IV. Solution to stop Cyberbullying
Take immediate action

Attempt to identify the cause. Some bullies start out as a friend, an ex, or someone else you
know well. If it seems possible to have a reasonable discussion with the person, consider asking
him or her to stop. Have the conversation in person, not through email or text.

Stop responding to the bully's messages. If talking it out won't work, don't directly respond to
the text messages, instant messages, emails or other communications you may have received
from the bully. Bullies want to elicit a reaction from their targets, so firing back a text will only
make things worse.

Block the bully. Immediately put an end to the bully's most invasive threats by blocking that
person from direct communication with you. Once you've made sure all prior messages have
been saved.

Change your account settings. Prevent the person from finding a new way to contact you by
limiting the amount of personal information you make available online

Get Outside Help

Don't wait too long to ask for help. You might be tempted to let the bullying run its course
instead of bringing attention to the problem, but if you do that the bully will get the message
that there's no penalty for putting someone else in danger. Don't assume the problem will go
away on its own; speak up immediately to put a stop to it

Report the bully to your service providers. Cyber bullying usually violates the terms of service
laid out by social media sites, cell phone providers, and other service providers. Read up on
your providers' policies and take steps to report threatening behavior.
Get law enforcement involved. In some cases cyber bullying may be classified as a crime, which
places it beyond the jurisdiction of schools and service providers. If the cyber bullying involves
one of the following elements, call your local police department

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“Stopcyberbullying: wikihow.com

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Conclusion
Cyber bullying is a beg problem in many teen’s world today. It is one of the
many ways in which teens are being bullied and it is causing problems for
many teens and even their families and loved ones. Kids have killed each
other and committed suicide after being involved in a cyberbullying incident.
It may even be a bigger problem than we know. The information I found
online from the experts says that 1 in 3 teens are cyber bullied.

Parents, law enforcement and educators all need to take caution with

watching over children in order to prevent cyberbullying. If everyone comes
together including educators, law enforcement and the biggest role, the
parents, then cyberbulling can be stopped. The next time these 12 to 17
year olds log onto the internet, maybe they won’t be affected by cyber
bullying if everyone begins to work together.

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“cyberbullying”  Monica Lewinsky's TED talk about cyberbullying

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“Cyberbullying on social media” Stephanie Pappas, Live Science Contributor 

“Stopcyberbullying: wikihow.com