1. Sarah Manuel Final Presentation MCO435-Social Media

2. CYBERBULLYING THE EVILS OF SOCIAL MEDIA

3. What is Cyberbullying?  What is ‘Cyberbullying’, and its various forms?  Cyberbullying: is bullying that takes place using electronic technology. Electronic technology includes devices and equipment such as cell phones, computers, and tablets as well as communication tools including social media sites, text messages, chat, and websites.bullying

5. How have our communities empowered cyberbullying to take place?  Examples of cyberbullying include mean text messages or emails, rumors sent by email or posted on social networking sites, and embarrassing pictures, videos, websites, or fake profiles.  Social Networking Sites such as Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube are main platforms where cyberbullying takes place.

7. Frequency of Cyberbullying  The 2010-2011 School Crime Supplement (National Center for Education Statistics and Bureau of Justice Statistics) indicates that 9% of students in grades 6–12 experienced cyberbullying.School Crime Supplement  The 2013 Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance Survey finds that 15% of high school students (grades 9-12) were electronically bullied in the past year.Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance Survey

9.  Donegan (2012) states it is bred from a capitalistic economy and competitive social hierarchy, bullying has remained a relevant issue through the years.

11. How the ‘internet’, though being rather advanced, has allowed ‘Cyberbullying’, to take place in the privacy of your own home/school/workplace, and how it can affect the person?

13.  Social media websites such as YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter can be life changing. They may have privacy settings for each, however, these are often breached, and create an easy path for users to access private information about each other.  Hence making it easy to target somebody based on private thoughts, images or events most often shared, and as we all know through our lectures, any data uploaded remains on the web infinitely, it never ends.

14. This image provides a simple fact on how one can prevent cyberbullying from taking place – i.e. to keep everything in control and locked!

15. How can social media networking sites contribute towards preventing cyberbullying?  Social Networking website giants such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, adapt policies where users feel safe to upload images, posts, tweets, and much more. These policies are usually found in their term of services.  Facebook either advertises to ‘stop bullying’ or creates pages to help those who want to speak about how they are being bullied.

16. Twitter informs their users right away what is inappropriate behavior, and if reported, they will be forced to deactivate their accounts. Twitter also provides a section where one can learn how to help a friend or family member with online abuse.

17. Cyberbullying doesn’t necessarily have to occur between students or co— workers. Terrorist acts can also be a form of Cyberbullying, in other words also known as Cyberterrorism.

19. Why do these bullies choose social media websites such as YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter to victimize their prey?  Television shows such as CSI Cyber, and movies such as Cyberbully show how Social Media makes a big impact on the decisions we take on a daily basis, and in terms of empowering Cyberbully through these different channels of media.

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