Blog 10: What is Cyberbullying

Bulling has been a problem for many years and it only became worse when social media became a cornerstone in almost every teenagers life. Cyberbullying is bullying that takes place using electronic technology. Electronic technology includes devices and equipment such as cell phones, computers, and tablets as well as communication tools including social media sites, text messages, chat, and websites. Cyberbullying can happen 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and reach a kid even when he or she is alone. It can happen any time of the day or night. Cyberbullying messages and images can be posted anonymously and distributed quickly to a very wide audience. It can be difficult and sometimes impossible to trace the source. Deleting inappropriate or harassing messages, texts, and pictures is extremely difficult after they have been posted or sent. There are a lot of effects that come from Cyberbulling both physically and mentally. Kids who are cyberbullied are more likely to use alcohol and drugs, skip school, experience in-person bullying, are unwilling to attend school, receive poor grades, have lower self-esteem, and have more health problems. There several more serious issues that were not mention in the article are cyberbullied victims do that’s not good either.

Reflection in my classroom

Cyberbulling is wrong and it needs to stop. One thing I feel our youth need to to teach kids that silence, when others are being hurt, is not acceptable. If they don’t allow the cyberbullies to use them to embarrass or torment others, cyberbullying will quickly stop.  We also need several kids to know that its not that bad that they need to hurt themselves or even worse take their life. One of the problems with our youth is that they need to know things now won’t last forever. Parents need to teach kids to respect other beliefs when they don’t agree with their fellow persons beliefs. I don’t agree with several things that some of my peers that I don’t agree with, but I still love them. An example is I am a Christian and there are things that I believe is wrong that my friends do , but I still love them and I am not going to attack them on it and they don’t do that to me either. I will not tolerate this in my classroom and I will follow the guidelines strictly.