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Cyberbullying
Bullies have involved and expanded beyond girls picking on boys or vice versa. It has gotten a lot more complicated. This is a mutation that technology unintentionally created because some people used it to attack others and that’s abusing. Teenagers and young adults are common victims of cyberbullying. They used internet every single days of their life, and carry cell phone everywhere they go. In fact if MySpace happens to crash one day some of them could very well commit suicide. Technologies such as: telephone, email, instant message, web page, and PDA can be practice as a tool to bully others people.
This cyberbully is a way of attacking other people by spreading embarrassing rumors on the Internet, forum, TV ads, instant message that allow access to massive public. For instance: Sarah Palin attacked Obama for being “friend” with a terrorist has become a form of cyberbulling because it reached massive public on TV, Newspaper, radio and especially the Internet.
Speaking of the Internet it’s an endless world, and nobody know for sure who’s sitting behind that monitor. The could be friends or foes or a freak that has nothing good to do except missing up other people. Chain mail had became a common practice for cyberbully. Unfortunately it gotten worse to the point of sending out virus in email that could ruined our computers.
A disagreement could lead to bully. Some people still haven’t grow up and become aggressive gotten into an argument with someone in a chatroom, forum or publiccomment like youtube for instance. And those rival could end up throwing serious attack beyond calling names by tracking down their personal information to find something that they could make fun of. Or maybe write a song and broadcast it on youtube repeating calling names over and over for a hundred of times.
The best advice and solution to these problem are be caution, mindful and friendly. There are several ways that we could do to protect ourselves although there’s no safe boundary on the net.
Keep a low profile. Limit the details of our personal information such as interests, habits or employment. This limit our risk of becoming a victim from stalkers. There are predator out there that look at others personal profile and they could live just right next door.
Keep a record of any online activity and place we visit could in handy. This is how we keep our friends close and our enemy even closer. It helps narrow down the people we meet online and places we visited. One day we receive an important email from a weird sender we could get an idea of where it came from.
For serious condition if bully have become problematic than take it to law enforcement. This happen quite often on prank calling. By the time we warn them that we’ll report it to the police then eventually they’ll stop soon before we know it.
Whether it’s cyber world or real world the principle doesn’t change and that is treat everyone with respect because it’s all operate by real people. Some people think that they can get away from doing something bad just by assuming that no one would find out. A couple years a go, I had an argument with someone in a chatroom and that person sent me a virus in email. Of course I know who sent it but the point is it’s not fun doing it. Like the old says, “Great power comes with great responsibilities”. I thank heaven that we have the technologies so we ought to use it wise.
