| When the internet was first conceived, it was seen as a means of enrichment and improvement for people everywhere whereby they could improve areas of their lives such as education, entertainment, health, and commerce. However, the opposite is also true. The internet has a negative side that can provide a threatening, hostile environment to users, exposing them to personal risk. This risk is cyberbullying.
Cyberbullying follows the victims wherever they go. As a result, it is hard to hide from cyberbullying because it reaches into every corner of a child's life. It has become a 24 hour a day ordeal for some youth.
Cyberbullying can be defined as "the use of information and communications technologies such as e-mail, cell phone and pager messages, instant messaging, defamatory personal web sites, and defamatory online personal polling websites, to support deliberate, repeated, and hostile behavior by an individual or group, that is intended to harm others". (Bill Belsey, 2005).
The internet is no longer free from prejudices of race, gender, and ability.
IS IT JUST ME OR ARE
THEY CYBER-
BULLYING ME ?
IF I HAVE INDEED BULLIED,HARASSED
STALKED ANYONE PLEASE INSIST THEY
REPORT THESE MATTERS TO THE
AUTHORITIES INVOLVED.. |
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