...Cyber Bullying in Mass Media The internet can reach a worldwide audience and it has made it easier for people to communicate from around the world. Internet has given a way to communicate or broadcast news, and other types of information worldwide. With so many advancements in technology people tend to abuse and misuse it. People tend to blame technology for the ways it’s used against others. Violent behavior has been around longer than technology. This paper will look at the link of cyber bullying in mass media. As technology grows so do the ways people abuse others with the use of technology. With so many advancement in technology social networking sites is a huge advancement. Social networking sites superseded the email sites on the net. According to the textbook, “These communities are often defined by common interests such as hobbies, professions, or schools, but as the name suggests, users usually visit them to socialize; once there, however, users can gravitate toward groups, more specific categories of interest-bound socializers.” (2012, p.271) Some of these social media networking sites are; Classmates, Myspace, Facebook, and Twitter. Many of these social networking sites are mainly used by teenagers. With technology growing at a fast pace teenagers have access to this entire social networking site through many plethora of technology devices. “A decade ago, technology had not advanced to the point where cyber bullying was even an issue. Times have changed...
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...Introduction According to the Internet World Stats (2011), over two billion people were ardent internet users. This means that this number of people rely on the internet for different elements. The internet is used for communication, business and financial transactions, and social connectivity, among others. The internet has become embedded in the daily activities of people around the world. In some parts of the world, technological advancements have resulted in the enhancement of internet use. Internet use is especially common among teenagers. It is estimated that teenagers spend over 30 hours on the internet every week (Guan & Subrahmanyam, 2009; Lenhart et al., 2010). This constant use of the internet has enabled these teenagers to become...
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...2013 Social-Network Effects on Teenagers Social media is undoubtedly the life blood of most teenagers today. Young adults, especially in the 13-17 age groups are constantly checking messages, updating posts and sharing photos on online media. According to a study by Roiworld’s Teens and Social Networks in 2010, “… teenagers spend an average of 80% of their time on online sites and this figure grows every year” (Gallo 16). With such a huge following it has become necessary for research to be conducted on the overall effect of social media on teenagers everywhere. This paper aims to explore the positive and negative effects of social media on teenagers today. With the natural curiosity that most teenagers hold, they are naturally anxious to meet new people and possibly make new friends and contacts. Online social media provide the perfect setting to do exactly that. Teenagers are able to interact with people from all over the world. This serves to not only increase their general knowledge but it enables this generation to be more tolerant of cultures and beliefs that differ from their own. New technology including smart phones with video and photo capabilities, iPad and other tablets, and portable Wi-Fi docs have made the Internet infinitely more assessable (Wolak, Mitchell & Finkelhor, 2006). Although technology has been associated with many positive effects, cyber bullying, sexting and slut shaming among teens are detrimental practices that have been...
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...The Effects Bullying Has On Teenagers Among the many challenges facing teenagers in today’s society, the most general and most feared is bullying, and the consequences, it has on teenagers. “Nearly 30 % of teens in the United States (or over 5.7) million are estimated at being involved in bullying, a target of bullying, or both.” (JAMA) Bullying brings with it an astronomical amount of negative effects, some of which can stay with the victim long after the bullying has stopped. These effects are self-esteem, mental health, and a reduction in grades. According to Dombeck, “Bullying is an attempt to install fear and self-loathing. Being the repetitive target of bullying damages a teenager’s ability to view themselves as a desirable, capable, and efficient individual.” (Dombeck, MP-10) When living teenage years having exceptional self-esteem it, is very significant, to demonstrate how much they love and appreciate themselves. Victims have demonstrated that bullied daily they might be deprived of their self-esteem, and begin dissatisfaction for themselves because they have this weakness. With no self-esteem, they seem to gravitate to be controlling and bossy with others because of the frustration they feel toward the bully. They become very hard on themselves. According to a teenager “I am ugly, no one likes me, I can not make friends.” A separate effect is changes in mental health. The Victims sleep habits are plausible, and they stay up late, so the end up getting...
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...The influence of peer pressure in adolescence In our young days we all might have tried it. Maybe we didn’t notice it, but it still had an influence on us. Peer pressure happens every day, and some cases are worse than others. A lot of teenagers might feel very unsecure, and need something to hold on to. Because of that, teenagers join a group of friends, in some cases; “friends”, and to keep their status in the group, they might do things to be respected and accepted in the group. These things can be negative and positive. The negative influence could be if a group of friends start to smoke. Let’s pretend there are five boys in this group, four of them start to smoke, and one of the boys doesn’t do things like that, or rather; he doesn’t smoke. The four smoking boys feel some kind of unity by smoking together, and that exclude the non-smoking boy from the group, and the boy will maybe not be accepted in the group anymore. To avoid getting excluded by the group, he starts to smoke, despite his own will. This example is described as a negative influence. Even worse cases could be if a group of boys want to commit a robbery or break into a store for example. One of the boys in the group doesn’t really want to do these things, maybe because he knows better than the rest of the group. But he follows the group, so in the end he really doesn’t’ know better, because giving in to peer pressure, is not so clever and especially not, when it has such a negative influence...
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...Running Head: INTERNET AND TEENAGERS The Use of Internet Creates Adverse Influence on Teenagers Tabassum Akhter 13304131 Sec: 08 Course: English 102 Date of Submission: 14th August 2013 BRAC University The Use of Internet Creates Adverse Influence on Teenagers On Christmas Day, 1990, in a lab at Cern in Geneva, Switzerland, Tim Berners-Lee finished building the tools to create the World Wide Web (Krotoski, 2010). Twenty years ago, this act of releasing the technology for free had been a revolution. Twenty years later, this snowballing age cyber age – with Twitter, Facebook, Skype, YouTube, Google and a maze of other electronic avenues – has engulfed the lives of today’s youth, where playing out into the fields has been replaced by surfing over the internet. Researches show that 87% of the youth today go online, representing 21 million youth (Weiss, 2005). It has become a growing concern in the society, especially among the parents, about the cyberspace’s detrimental impacts upon the teenagers since it is concealed beneath the whitewashed faces of social media and other sites and generates addiction resulting in reduced efficiency of the students. Furthermore, it exposes them to the dangers of cyber bullying, and ruins the teenagers’ creativity and originality; not to mention, it also creates destructive impact upon family bonds. The creators of social media and other beguiling websites assert that the growth in the use of Internet is leading...
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...Bullying Student’s Name Here XXXX University Introduction There are so many incidents on television where teenagers are being bullied via Facebook and other online sources. Almost every adolescent has access to the internet nowadays and most of them have a mobile phone. Therefor it is not surprising, that cyberbullying or bullying through these new communication technologies is increasing. In order to put cyberbullies to a stop it is necessary to know, who these teenagers are, what they do, and why they bully. This research will introduce briefly the suicde of Megan Meier and the foundation what is set into effect today to prevent children and teenagers from being victims like her. Another young victim of cyberbullying was a local teen, Viviana Aguirre, an El Paso girl who was being bullied and picked on and her tragedy caught media attention. She received messages via Facebook telling her to kill herself. This impressionable girl was tormented mentally and her self-esteem was seriously damaged. She ultimately became a victim of cyberbullying which lead Viviana to commit suicide. There must be an end put to this. The reason for this study is to identify the threats and the environment that exists in our local high schools providing a dangerous basis for committing cyberbullying. By conducting a survey we intend to find our weak spots and therefore create solutions that will prevent cyberbullying in the future. Just the mere researching into this negative phenomena serves...
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...It can be often seen that smartphones are said to be root of various problems for teenagers by parents of these young people all around the world that has access to this service. This thought is strengthened even more by an article from The Atlantic written by Jean M. Twenge (2017), a professor of psychology at San Diego State University. By the article he conveys the message that higher use of smartphone has direct relations to higher suicide rate, depression and lower morale among people of young age and has a higher effect on girls than boys. Another study conducted by Anders Raustorp, Peter Pagels, Andreas Fröberg and Cecilia Boldeman (2013) on Swedish Teenagers indicate that smartphones may be the reason for the significant reduction of...
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...still under research. Mobile phone users are advice to reduce the usage on mobile phones if it is possible. Mobile phone addiction is a big social problem. Psychiatrists believe that mobile phone addiction is becoming one of the biggest non-drug addictions in the 21st century. Along with the age drop of the mobile phone users and the ease of prepaid method provide by the system operators, most teenagers now own their own mobile phone and network service. Teenagers are engaged on their mobile phones all the time, no matter on phone calls, using SMS text messages, personalising the mobile phones with ringtones and pictures etc. Besides this, many people are running after the lastest mobile phones. New models of mobile phones are released almost everyday. In order to get up-to-date, people tend to change their mobile phones once in a while. These became habits among the mobile phone users causing them to spend unnecessary cost on mobile bills and costs. Cyber bullying is also another issue among the disadvantages of mobile phones. Cyber bullying is a bullying act using offensive words and behavior via online chatting, emails or SMS text messages. It was showed that the psychological effects of...
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...forming online? Evidence shows that young people maintain already formed friendships and build new friendships online. Social media has taken away face-to-face social skill development. The constant growth in technology has resulted in the creation of over five online social networks for people to sign up for and be members. Research shows that almost every teenager is an active member in one social media site, at least. Further research into the time that people spend online in these social networks per day is even alarming. The connection between teenagers and online social networks is a cause if concern. Adolescents use the social networks as a platform for creating friends and getting to know each other. However, despite the strong relation between teenagers and social networks, better precautions needed. While undergoing social networking activities, several disadvantages a teenager might suffer. The violations include an increase in immoral activities, violations of privacy, sexual violations, deceit, and cyber bullying (Dorsch and Greenberg 2009). Therefore, it would be of importance if teenagers receive education on the benefits and disadvantages of social network...
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...Looking at Life through a Teenager’s Eyes As a teenager, I know for sure that it is not easy. We are surrounded by temptations, difficult situations, and sometimes our faith is really put to the test. When we face afflictions, we try to look for ways to get through them. Some may be smart, and some may be not. The three most common issues among teenagers that I will be discussing in this essay are drug use, bullying, and self-harm. Illegal or legal drug use can be seen anywhere, even in school. Peer pressure and low self-esteem can be the cause of many teens looking at drugs for many reasons. Drugs are serious substances that can harm the users and anyone around them. Drug use can lead to drug abuse, and will lead to a much more serious problem- addiction. Using drugs is a way for teens to escape from their reality for a while so they can feel a little better. There are many teenagers that have been bullied or are being bullied. Bullying can be physical or verbal and can inflict significant damage on many. Along with the advanced technology, bullying can be done anonymously and make things even worse. Because of bullying, the suicide rating among teens has increased and has resulted in many to drop out of school. Most victims of bullying turn to drugs and self-harm than to an adult to talk about it because they feel alone and that no one would be able to understand. Self-harm is a way of expressing and dealing with emotional distress. Some teens can hide their cuts and...
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...periods in a person life are without a doubt their school years. Bullying has been an extreme issue all around the world for many years to present. Bullying is a serious problem in schools around the world, and bullying causes negative effects on the victim being bullied. In this essay, I will confirm the major types of bullying and the causes it has on the victim. Bullying causes the victim to have low self-esteem, depression, health problems, becoming anti-social people, and having broken hearts. Countless people have confessed to being bullied or acting like bullies themselves. There are four major types of bullying around in the school: cyber bullying, verbal bullying, physical bullying, and rational bullying. Bullying is an unsolicited and hostile action or behavior that affects many children and teenagers. It may include actions such as making threats, spreading rumors, attacking someone physically or verbally, and excluding someone from a group or purpose based upon spiritual views, appearance, economic status, or social status. Bullying can cause severe emotional, physical, and legal problems both in the victim and the aggressor. There have been many cases of suicide among children and teenagers because of bullying. Cyber bullying is one of the most common and new forms of bullying since technology have changed. We have social networks and blogs where a lot of the bullying takes place. Cyber bullying is treating or offending a person with the help of computer-generated...
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...In her article “Friend Game: Behind the Online Hoax that Led to a Girl’s Suicide,” Lauren Collins informs her audience of the story of Megan Meier, a thirteen year old girl who committed suicide after experiencing online bullying from a fake Myspace account. A profile under the name Josh Evans was tailored to Megan’s desires, drew her in, then cruelly berated her to the point that she took her own life. Megan Meier grew up in the town of Dardenne Prairie, Missouri, in a close-knit neighborhood in which every family knew each other. Megan befriended Sarah Drew, a girl who lived four houses down the street. Megan and Sarah’s relationship was on-again off-again, and the girls would often go from spending an entire weekend together to not speaking...
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...Suicide Amongst Youth November 21, 2013 INTRODUCTION Barry parr, a window cleaner in a small town, was working as usual in December 2001, not expecting anything interesting to happen. Suddenly, he heard a yell from afar and saw a 14 year old girl who was preparing to hang herself from a nearby tree. He showed signs of his incipient heroism as he quickly grabbed his ladder and ran across the road to try and talk her into retreating. He tried, and that was when she got real about committing suicide. As Barry started to climb up his ladder, the girl jumped off. Luckily, Barry was close enough and strong enough and he caught her in his arms, holding her high enough to save her life. Unfortunately, however, Barry was now in an unlucky situation. Barry was out on a cold winter day when people hardly walked by, and he had in his arms, a 14 year old girl who was trying really hard to squirm out of his grasp and kill herself. Barry held on to her for an entire hour before someone passed by and called the cops. The come eventually came and helped, but not before Barry had proven to the girl, how far the world was willing to go, to save her life and keep this one lonely girl around. Suicide is a tragic and preventable mental health problem. Suicide is irrational to those who are not suicidal, but to those who are, it is the only means of escape that there is. The reason most people consider suicide to be irrational is because suicide is a permanent solution to a problem which...
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...Bullying By Alberto Angulo Think to yourself, have you ever had a mean prank done to you and a group of people started laughing? Well, there is only one reason for that; you have been targeted by a bully. Bullies are known for their sick antics and personalities against people they find weak. These people can hurt you verbally, physically and emotionally they won’t stop. Bullying is sick and wrong, and it needs to be stopped. However according to Amanda Lenhart bullying is most common among the young. About one-third of teenagers pulled in 2006 reported being a victim of this form of intimidation. About one third (32%) of all teenagers who use the internet say they have also been targets of a range of annoying and potentially menacing online activities. For example, receiving threatening messages or having embarrassing pictures posted without permission are forms of harassment. One in six teens (15%) told us someone had forwarded or posted communications they assumed were private (Lenhart). About (13%) of teens stated that someone had spread a rumor about them online (Lenhart). Cyber bullying although less physical than traditional forms of bulling can have more devastating and longer lasting effects. Educators definitely need to understand how powerful and dangerous this new type of bullying has become as it has greatly impacted the classroom. In the year 2000 a University of New Hampshire studies found that out of every 17 students or 6 percent of kids in...
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