Cyberbullying Should Stop

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with today's youth and young individuals. A lack of self-regulation and potential susceptibility to peer pressure, many young individuals today are at risk of succumbing to social media and the hazards that come along with it. A significant portion of individuals today are digitally prone to head towards technological advances such as social media as a form of interaction (O'Keeffe & Clarke-Pearson, 2011). Cyber culture has become second nature in society. It has become the groundwork for much of the multicultural understanding. Web-based information is what people now turn to for speed, convenience, and overall depth. The Internet has a pivotal impact on society today. The availability of information has been enhanced due to updates in technology and because of this a sweeping progression of how people see each other and the world has taken on a direction of its own ("Cyber culture: Society, Culture, and the Internet," 2012). The Internet has become an entryway into how ...

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upon registering on many social media platforms. The most common form of cyber bullying is through messages on platforms such as Facebook and Twitter and instant messaging ("Cyber-Bullying," 2012). The practice of cyber bullying on platforms such as these is not solely restricted to children and young adults, but to adults as well when examined through the lens of social media bullying. To ascertain further discourse on social media bullying, three specific mediums were examined: a video on social media bullying that dealt primarily with a woman named Amanda Todd who was bullied and subsequently took her life; a blog that handles cyber bullying and how to deal with it with references to ...

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