WHAT IS CYBERBULLING ?

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  • What is cyberbullying?
Cyberbullying is one of the most dangerous online threats. Exploiting peoples’ insecurities and vulnerabilities, cyberbullies seek to humiliate and psychologically harm their victims. 

Cyberbullying is the act of intimidating, threatening, or coercing people online through the use of social media, email, text messages, blog posts, or other digital or electronic methods. Also called digital harassment, cyberbullying usually involves the use of derogatory, aggressive, or threatening language. To mask their real identity, cyberbullies often hide behind fake digital personas.

Cyberbullying often involves sending the victim threatening messages, posting compromising photos or videos of the victim on social media sites, or even creating a fake website about the victim. While bullying is not new, cyberbullying takes harassment to a frightening new level. As has often been documented in the news, the effects of cyberbullying can be devastating and even fatal.

According to the cyberbullying research center about 34% of middle school and high school students have experienced online harassment. Several research studies have shown that cyberbullying is linked to low self-esteem, anger, frustration, and suicidal thoughts. Given the gravity of the issue, it’s important for both parents and kids to understand what to do about cyberbullying and the many forms it can take. 

  • Cyberbullying in schools:

Here the bullying is done by fellow learners who find pleasure in harassing, shaming and discriminating their fellow learners via online, using social platforms/ media such as the internet (Instagram, Tik Tok, Facebook, YouTube etc..) emails, blogs etc.




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