Cyberbullying As A Social Problem

Cyberbulling as a social problem

Today the use of social networks has been massifying more and more, either, in our country or worldwide. This due to the large increase in mobile or electronic devices that each person has in their possession, especially young people. Consequently, to the above, many have become dependent on some in particular, either, Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram or some other. This has made, in Chile, for example, many people of different ages have one of them, since, these can be useful for entertaining, spending time, communicating with other people, etc. In addition, the dependence on networks, many have made them addicted and more than one has had problems for that.

We can mention the last comment that was said in the previous paragraph, which refers to the problems or, rather, to the dangers that some social network can generate. For example, many have heard about cyberbullying (theme we will deal with) that, easily, it is a danger that anyone can happen, especially children and adolescents. Unfortunately, this has become very common in recent years, since many young people have some account in a social network. Which makes them prone to receive some kind of threat, or something like that.

Before starting, we must give a definition of what is cyberbullying? Well we can define it as “[…] Employing any of the possibilities of using new information and communication technologies to harass its victim with cruelty” (M. Hernández;Yo. Solano 23).

In addition, we could say that, in most of the time, cyberbullying comes from something beyond the scope of social networks. In the vast majority of cases, it is possible to demonstrate that it is something that comes from bullying in person. In this way, the affected person receives a constant harassment or harassment from his aggressor (s), either, in school, university or somewhere where they know each other, which is transferred to an aggression via social networksor emails.

We can ask ourselves, what differences can cyberbullying have with bullying? Well, on the one hand, bullying is a harass. On the other hand, as stated in the previous paragraph, cyberbullying is something that goes beyond the face -to -face since “[…] students can be harassed even when they are not physically at school, not being their home a shelter ”(Martínez Rodríguez 94). This being the big difference that these types of harass have, although it should be emphasized that cyberbullying is a bullying derivative, so they share many things among them.

A social network that has always been prone to this type of harassment is, Facebook. This, due to easy access and even simpler way of registering and creating an account. Also, it is left to say that it is not difficult to send an offensive message from it. What makes this platform ideal for committing this type of aggression. In addition, we can add that many of the aggressors are never discovered, because, they use pseudonyms to be able to hide and thus, concisely assault their victim. This according to families of assaulted is the worst, since, it creates more difficulty when wanting to do justice.

There are multiple reasons, for which a young man can suffer cyberbullying, among which we are more common;Discrimination by ethnicity or gender, sexual orientation, for having some kind of disease, having some different feature, either, psychological or physical, even just because it is not equal to its aggressor. Unfortunately, this mostly affects young people who, from 10 to 20 years old. Being children the elderly harmed, because, being smaller, they are also more vulnerable, and also, they can feel more offended than an older young man. The worst of this is that children often silence what happens to them, for fear of reprisals or for the simple fact that they are threatened by their aggressor.

What can the victim feel? Well, the main thing is, fear, insecurity and even depression, since, not even on the Internet can be calm, this being a place that many occupy to be able to clear. This can result in the attacked

I can never adapt to an environment, due to its great insecurity, which will never know who to socialize. And the worst consequence of all this is that many young people not knowing how to deal with cyberbullying, think or try to commit suicide. There are cases of people who told what they lived, and the vast majority expresses that more than once thought about taking their lives, for receiving aggression via social networks.

The role of the family when it is known that someone close to them is suffering from this, is super important, since, the affected as it was said previously begins to change their attitude, and every time it feels more and more insecure in their surroundings byWhich, its close circle must be supporting it at all times. In addition, they have to show him that his house is safe and even more, to do as much as possible so that he or the young woman can have confidence to tell them everything he is or could have happened to him. This being the best thing that the affected can have, since, so you will know that you have support from your family and you can get ahead and overcome the bad that happened to you for a bad intentional person who, only sought to do serious damage.

In summary, cyberbullying is a fact that many young people around the world live. Due, to the great increase in the number of people who have Internet access, which leads to the possibility of having an account on a social network. Focusing that much of these people are minors, which as stated are the most likely to receive all kinds of threats and insults through the Internet. This creates an insecurity for young people when navigating the networks, since, they may suffer at any time the aforementioned. In addition, as stated, the role of the family is something very indispensable for the young man to not try to do impulsive actions such as suicide.