Cyberbullying As Fast As Possible
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·Techquickie
·2016-05-06
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911 words · ~4 min read
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Bullying. A transaction between two parties where a larger subject in a
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snake embroidered jean or leather jacket solicits money from a smaller, weaker
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subject against his or her will. Or at least that was how it worked in the
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1980s when David Hasselhoff and his Firebird still ruled the streets. But as
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the tired old trend of interpersonal interaction rapidly declined in favor of
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digital communication, it seemed we couldn't drop the nasty trend of well
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being nasty to each other. In fact, the proliferation of harassment via
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information technology networks such as hate-based websites, email slander
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campaigns, and threatening phone calls had become frequent enough by 2004 that
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it led to a term to describe the experience of repeated and targeted
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digital abuse, cyber bullying. And as it
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turned out, this was just in the nick of time for the next great evolution of
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bullying, social networking. Social media changed the bullying landscape by
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giving people unprecedented access to the personal lives of well everybody.
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74% of teenagers according to the Pew Research Center. And once the networking
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services became ubiquitous with cell phones, it meant that bullies could
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access their victims at any time and place from school to work to even home.
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In fact, approximately one in three teenagers report having experienced some
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form of cyber bullying. This is also according to Pew, including everything
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from having private messages shared without permission, false rumors spread,
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and even physical threats. So then a
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common reaction from many who first encounter cyber harassment is to say,
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well, okay, I'll just unplug everything.
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This is easy. However, the emotional distress and stigma from bullying can
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follow a person far beyond their pluggedin experience with victims
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exhibiting higher incident rates of psychological problems, depression, and
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substance abuse issues. According to research by the cyber bullying research
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center and because cyber bullying disproportionately affects teenagers and
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this is according to statistics Netherlands there has been concern from
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organizations such as the US department of health and human services about the
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effects of this type of bullying on personal development and the possibility
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that it could cause emotional and behavioral issues later on in life.
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Thankfully, social media providers seem to agree that there's a problem, and
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things like page visibility only upon author approval and blocking for
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individual users have become near universal. Some services such as YouTube
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take it a step further, letting users define what type of unwanted material
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they're reporting, from unsolicited to explicit or even violent and harassing
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speech. Or there's Twitch, which allows broadcasters to temporarily time out
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people instead of banning them outright, giving a chance for the perpetrator's
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behavior to be modified via social reinforcement. Which is not to say at
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all that these features are foolproof, as it is not uncommon for miscreants to
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gain them by setting up dummy accounts or even abuse them by reporting people
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who have done nothing wrong. And efforts to legislate against cyber bullying
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haven't gone swimmingly either, with reports of online bullying continuing to
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rise, according to the Boston-based Education Development Center. On the
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bright side, campaigns like stomp out bullying in the US and delete cyber
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bullying in the EU have led to a growing awareness and a drive for people to be
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proactive about this issue. Because
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while this hasn't been a very funny episode of Techquicki, it's kind of a
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serious issue. And if you or anyone that you know has experienced anything more
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than, you know, the mildly irritating levels of online abuse that we all just
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seem to kind of accept to the point where you feel like it's really having
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an impact on you, it's important to reach out to nearby support because no
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one deserves that kind of mistreatment. And last but not least, take care not to
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