...Teen Suicides Linked To Disturbing Trend: Cyberbullying Black letters flash across the screen, launching an attack of rumors and insults. A text, a Facebook wall post, a blog– a line or two is all it takes to wound someone's self-esteem, to bring tears, to ruin a relationship. With the outburst of modern technology, old-school bullying is out and a new type of bullying has arrived. But while stuffing someone in a locker is an obvious sign of harassment, with no bruises or bloody noses as evidence of abuse, cyber-bullying often doesn't raise alarms until it's too late. While bullying may have an effect on teens, how does cyberbullying have an effect a victim? Bullying online can harass, threaten, and infringe on a victims personal life not only in the schools but in the comfort of their own home. Cyberbullying is the new trend that follows children where ever they are. This type of bullying can be defined as tormenting a child through technology and communication tools such as cell phones, computers, chat rooms, Facebook and YouTube. Cyberbullying is put into two categories: Synchronic (real time) and Asynchronic (delayed). Synchronic is "live" bullying. This type of bullying is instant, it happens when both the offender and victim are online at the same time. Synchronic bullying utilizes: chat rooms, texting and instant messaging. Amanda Todd, a 15 year old girl, used video chat to meet new people and received compliments about her looks. A stranger that she met on the...
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...Bullying Bully victims are between 2 to 9 times more likely to consider suicide than non-victims. Of all the people who have considered suicide almost half have attempted. As easy as it is for someone to bully another it is almost impossible to get through for the victim, and often ends in a tragic outcome. Typically those who bully use their strength, popularity or power to harm, control or manipulate others. They usually target those who are weaker in size or may have a difficult time defending themselves. There are many major problems that can result in bullying in general. Recently there was a girl by the name of Amanda Todd, and she got bullied for a while after making a few bad decisions that got spread around and later committed suicide. Since the incident suicide awareness has been high. The problem with our society is it takes this girl to bring up suicide awareness when there was already thousands probably millions of others who have committed suicide. After the suicide a group of people made a support page on Facebook that now has over 800,000 likes. It’s great that they are showing her support now, but where were they before when she was crying for help. People don’t care about anything until they are gone. Another important problem is that everybody glorifies one person. Approximately 560 people commit suicide in America alone. And they don’t have a Facebook page or any type of support for that matter. We need to stop focusing on one thing and think about everything...
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...Bullying Bully victims are between 2 to 9 times more likely to consider suicide than non-victims. Of all the people who have considered suicide almost half have attempted. As easy as it is for someone to bully another it is almost impossible to get through for the victim, and often ends in a tragic outcome. Typically those who bully use their strength, popularity or power to harm, control or manipulate others. They usually target those who are weaker in size or may have a difficult time defending themselves. There are many major problems that can result in bullying in general. Recently there was a girl by the name of Amanda Todd, and she got bullied for a while after making a few bad decisions that got spread around and later committed suicide. Since the incident suicide awareness has been high. The problem with our society is it takes this girl to bring up suicide awareness when there was already thousands probably millions of others who have committed suicide. After the suicide a group of people made a support page on Facebook that now has over 800,000 likes. It’s great that they are showing her support now, but where were they before when she was crying for help. People don’t care about anything until they are gone. Another important problem is that everybody glorifies one person. Approximately 560 people commit suicide in America alone. And they don’t have a Facebook page or any type of support for that matter. We need to stop focusing on one thing and think about everything...
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...thru Internet based applications, which allows users to create and transfer content. Some popular types of platforms that are widely used today are blogging, chatrooms, youtube (video site) networking such as facebook twitter and instagram, which allows communicating and the sharing of information. Social media has now become a way were people and organizations share opinions, ideas and information. Social Media allows one to interact with a large amount of people, from the same city, country, continent and ever world wide. Being able to express and share your beliefs with people who are into the same things you are which results in more opinions and more feedback then just speaking with friends and family. Education Institutes cannot only reach out to current students that attend the school right now, but they can reach out to potential students who have applied and alumni students too. The most popular used social media platforms today among education are Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. Institutes can use facebook to send out messages via message boards to inform students of information that they may find useful, like for example popularizing an event, encouraging participation and provides interaction with other students. Another useful aspect of Facebook is cost free promotion, virtual groups with students and feedback from teachers. Also an alumni group to keep graduates in contact with other classmates after leaving the institute. Twitter is another very popular...
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...addition of social media, it has become something much more. Instead of the typical bully stealing a kid’s lunch money, the abuse can now be everywhere, all the time with the help of the internet. The pandemic of the cyber bullying has become such a huge issue, that it is commonly seen in our media today. Typically, the main site for this type of abuse is seen throughout Facebook. Now with the popularity of social media, it is almost impossible not to encounter this form of bullying. One specific case of cyber bullying which was heavily covered in the media was the death of Amanda Todd. Her struggle began when she decided flash a stranger on video chat website, but the main problems occurred a year later on Facebook. A profile was created to blackmail her with the topless photos. This led to a chain of negative events and even a physical attack that would cause Amanda to attempt suicide. The suicide attempt would just be the beginning for her tormentors. Once word spread all over Facebook, she began to get harassed and received numerous hate messages for her attempt. With the efficiency of Facebook, the video from her chat was sent to parents, teacher and students. This would lead Amanda in a deep depression and ultimately place her in the hospital. This added fuel to the fire and now was being called “psycho” and “crazy” among all the other names she was previously called. All of this consumed every moment of her life which is why on October 10th, 2012 she was hanged...
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...Report: Teen Commits Suicide After Seeing His Favorite Naruto Character Die 30,034 Brian Ashcraft ProfileFollow Brian Ashcraft Filed to: NARUTO * WTF * JAPAN * KOTAKUEAST 11/02/12 6:55am * ------------------------------------------------- Share to Kinja * ------------------------------------------------- Share to Facebook * ------------------------------------------------- Share to Pinterest * ------------------------------------------------- Share to Twitter * ------------------------------------------------- Go to permalink Ads by Google Start Download Convert Any File to a PDF - Word, Jpeg, Gif, Rtf - Free Download! www.fromdoctopdf.com Seeing an anime character die allegedly inspired a 14 year-old Russian boy to jump one hundred feet to his death, says a report. According to Mail Online, Leonid Hmelev committed suicide after seeing his favorite character,Naruto character Itachi Uchiha, die in anime Naruto: Shippuden. The character's death reportedly saddened the boy. It's been known since 2008 that the character dies. ‘I always told him he spent too much time watching the TV-he didn't know what was reality and what was fiction anymore," said his father, Ivan. Hmelev left home after watching Naruto: Shippuden, leaving a message on a social networking site that he was "planning an ending". His body was discovered after being missing for two days. Obviously, there seems to be more going on here, than a simple cause...
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...Freedom of Expression or Freedom to Bully? Social media has come a long way during the last few decade, and the improvement of technology has made everything online easier to manage. Social media is meant as a valuable outlet for freedom of expression, but is widely abused in order to bully and threaten others without any fear. The purpose of this research paper is to show how online bullying goes a long way, and hurts others in the long run. Bullies get online and let out their hatred/frustration on victims, without the confrontation, and without the immediate consequences. There are many ways that social media is more widely used as a weapon and some of the reasons are, bullying online can lead to depression/anxiety, even to suicide, and the bullies are able to hide behind a keyboard and threaten others with no consequences. We expect the internet to be safe and a reliable source to express ourselves, yet others use it as a scapegoat to bully others and create an environment where others don’t feel safe. From personal experiences, facts, statistics, and the words of experts, social media has been deemed an unfit outlet for teens because they use it to freely express their hatred towards others, with little to no consequence. There are many facts that prove how social media is used for seemingly inappropriate behavior towards others, and making the internet as a whole a place to ruin other people’s lives. Doing research on this topic was really hard because of...
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...FEELING BAD ON FACEBOOK: DEPRESSION DISCLOSURES BY COLLEGE STUDENTS ON A SOCIAL NETWORKING SITE Megan A. Moreno, M.D. M.S.Ed. M.P.H.,1Ã Lauren A. Jelenchick, B.S.,1 Katie G. Egan,1 Elizabeth Cox, M.D. Ph.D.,1 Henry Young, Ph.D.,2 Kerry E. Gannon, B.S.,1 and Tara Becker, Ph.D.1 Background: Depression is common and frequently undiagnosed among college students. Social networking sites are popular among college students and can include displayed depression references. The purpose of this study was to evaluate college students’ Facebook disclosures that met DSM criteria for a depression symptom or a major depressive episode (MDE). Methods: We selected public Facebook profiles from sophomore and junior undergraduates and evaluated personally written text: ‘‘status updates.’’ We applied DSM criteria to 1-year status updates from each profile to determine prevalence of displayed depression symptoms and MDE criteria. Negative binomial regression analysis was used to model the association between depression disclosures and demographics or Facebook use characteristics. Results: Two hundred profiles were evaluated, and profile owners were 43.5% female with a mean age of 20 years. Overall, 25% of profiles displayed depressive symptoms and 2.5% met criteria for MDE. Profile owners were more likely to reference depression, if they averaged at least one online response from their friends to a status update disclosing depressive symptoms (exp(B) 5 2.1, Po.001), or if they used Facebook more frequently...
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...A 'digital divide' can be described as an economic inequality between groups, this simply refers to the amount of people that have access to the latest information technologies and to those who do not. There is a clear digital divide in our modern society, the main denominator being age. Because of the recent advancements in technology, the modern adolescent has grown up with all things digital i.e. The internet, television, games consoles etc. In complete contrast, the adults of todays world lacked most of these ‘modern day necessities’ growing up. The complete and utter difference in lifestyles has ultimately led to a rewiring of the human brain. Children of the modern world are fully adjusted to modern technology and digital media from a very early age whereas the older generation need more time to adapt to the often complicated new technology. "We see marked differences in behaviour within countries – with a clear divide between younger and older groups. Younger people are more likely to use social media and aggregator brands and in all countries they show a strong preference for online." (Newman, Nic, NN, (2013), 'Digital News Report 2013', Uneven Pace of Change - Differences between and within Countries) There are of course many advantages of the new digital society in which we live. The internet can be used as a tool to connect with people all over the world, business conferences can be held via the internet in real time saving time and money for thousands of businesses...
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...In today’s society there is evidence of ostracism everywhere. It happens in schools, at work and online, within groups of friends, and between strangers. Most people have probably felt this feeling of being ignored, left out, or bullied at one point in their life. For most, it’s not a big deal, the situation blows over and normal life continues, however, for some ostracism can be life threatening. Increased access and popularity of the internet, especially social sites like Facebook and Twitter make escaping ostracism almost impossible. In the article “Social Exclusion causes Self-Defeating Behavior” by Jean Twenge, Kathleen Catanese and Roy Baumeister, they explain that out of ostracism comes a natural instinct to try to turn a negative feeling into a positive feeling for the victim. Unfortunately, in an attempt to produce a positive outcome, negative ones most often happen. A good example in our society is in the latest media coverage of homosexual males who have committed suicide as a result of extreme ostracism and self-defeating behaviors that arise from feeling alone. I would argue that today’s society is much more accepting and supportive of those who are homosexual, however, although overall society accepts these individuals, there are still many who are not accepting and go out of their way to make people feel “different” and ‘wrong”. In the case of the student at Rutgers University, it was found that not only was he feeling ostracized in school and online, his parents...
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...Cyber bullying Everyone take a minute to close your eyes. Raise your hand if you have ever been the victim of bullying, now open your eyes. Now raise your hand if you have ever been the bully, now open your eyes. Finally, raise your hand if you have ever watched someone being bullied, open your eyes. We can all think of experiences involving bullying, whether we were the victim, the bully or a witness. More recently though, cyber bullying has sky rocketed due to all the social media sites now available to use. Cyber bullying and just bullying in general, has caused so many lives of young teens and adults to be taken. In order to put an end to it, or even help the popularity of it, we must open our eyes and look the bully right in the face. Cyber bullying is when someone is tormented, threatened, harassed, humiliated, or just a target by a mobile phone or internet, most of the time, both. Cyber bullying can include anything from the list provided above, by text message, instant message, email, blogs, social websites, etc. As more and more children gain access to these, the more people are being harmed. This topic is usually forgotten about once children reach 18, out of high school, which makes the severity of the topic increase. Cyber bullying does not go away with age, race, ethnicity, eye color, hair color, wealth, etc, it just takes on a different name with more consequences that could affect someone for the rest of their life. While growing up, movies make a...
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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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...students believing that adult help is infrequent and ineffective. I didn’t know that harassment and bullying has been linked to 75 percent of school-shooting incidents. There have been many cases of suicide because of bullying. One of the recent ones was the suicide of Amanda Todd. She committed suicide on October 10, 2012 at her home in Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada. She was 16 years old when she died. On September 7, 2012, she posted a 9-minute video on YouTube titled My Story: Struggling, bullying, suicide and self-harm, which showed her using flash cards telling her experiences being bullied. The reason she was bullied was because when she was in 7th grade, she used video chat to meet new people over the internet. People she met would always give her complements about her looks. A stranger convinced her to bare her breasts on camera. He later blackmailed her with threats to expose the topless photo to her friends unless she gave a “show”. The photo of her circulated the internet. She moved to different places to start fresh, but the individual would always disguise himself as a student coming new to school. She tried to kill herself by drinking bleach and an overdose of drugs, but it didn’t work. Students from her school would make fun of her because she failed in her suicide and in her grades. After the entire nightmare, on October 10, 2012 at about 6:00 PM, she was found hanged at her home. Like I said before, most of the teenagers have a very low self-esteem and...
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...WHAT IS FACEBOOK: Facebook is one of website which facilities communication. By facebook, people become easy to communicate withFacebook is one of website which facilities communication. By facebook, people become easy to communicate with their friend. Moreover, facebook can be accessed for all ages. For example, using facebook becomes a lifestyle for teenagers. Almost everyday they access their facebook account to chat with their friends or just to update their status. If they don’t have facebook, their other friends will say you are old-fashion people. IN MY OPINION : I disagree, because it destroys your real social life and if you are not careful, you can pick up all kinds of viruses and also it is not nearly as private as they like to believe. DISADVATAGE OF USING FACEBOOK 1) Facebook can be easy addicting. It is addicting which often kills to your valuable time. 2) Fake profile and id. Now it has becomes easier to create fake profile. People often uses fake profile insults and harassing someone it is more common against girls where people simply make a fake profile and start harassing them. For example, I recently I heard news that some girls died by suicide when someone abused her making a fake profile of her. 3) Facebook often brings bad effects on student result. 4) False report. Many people lost their precious facebook ID because of false report. LASTLY. Be careful who you friend and have a strong FB passwords because it is a favourite site...
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...with his/her busy life and simultaneously be able to stay connected with his/her dear ones? The answer is to create a profile on social networking sites (SNS) like Myspace or Facebook, connect with the friends, and start sharing your thoughts and memorable moments of life by uploading the pictures or videos at your leisure. Post 1999, online social network sites like Myspace and Facebook have become common destinations for young people in the United States. Throughout the country, young people were logging in, creating elaborate profiles, publicly articulating their relationships with other participants, and writing extensive comments back and forth. Participation on the key social network site, Myspace, is essential to being seen as cool at school. Michael Duffy, an editor at TIME, coined FaceBook.com as – a noun and a verb (Duffy 2). This is because teens often refer SNS in context with the phone call or text message for instance a daughter replied her mom that she’d “Facebook” someone for the assignment (Duffy 1). While not all teens are members of social network sites, these sites have developed a significant cultural resonance amongst American teens in a short period of time. The luster created by these sites has infatuated teens and has prevailed to be an important part of their social life. Facebook and Myspace have been two of the longest lasting fads in the internet world, and have truly made a name for them as a lasting presence for social networking, paving the way...
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