by Arfiya Siddique
“Replace cyber-bullying with cyber-believing. Let us build each other up instead of bringing others down. BELIEVE & BUILD” ― Janna Cachola
Cyberbullying or Online Bullying is the use of technology to harass, threaten, embarrass a target person by another individual or a group by the use of internet and digital devices. It occurs mostly among school student and young adults. Cyberbullying is usually not a one time communication it involves series of post and messages. Cyberbullying in some cases can turn into cyber harassment where victim go upto the extend of committing suicide anxiety, depression ,less of sleep is common otherwise among the victims. IM(whatsapp,skype,lime,hike etc), social media are common means to carry out cyber bullying.
The studies covered a variety of social sites, but Facebook was the most common — between 89 percent and 97.5 percent of the teens who used social media had a Facebook account. Seventeen of the 36 studies analyzed looked at how common cyberbullying was, and the researchers found that a median of 23 percent of teens reporting being targeted. About 15 percent reported bullying someone online themselves.
CYBER BULLYING AROUND THE GLOBE
Recently, In a report by MONIQUE HORE on January 29, 2017 its been found that PARENTS are more stressed about their children being bullied than about drugs or alcohol.
Nine in 10 Australian teenagers, many of whom will return to school tomorrow, believe cyber bullying is a problem for young people, new 
data has revealed.
Forty per cent of parents are worried about online bullying, compared to just 9 per cent who worry about their kids drinking alcohol and 15 per cent who fear experimentation with drugs.
Another report in South Australia by youth mental health organization Reach Out found almost a quarter of 1000 respondents aged 14-25 had been bullied in the past year. Only half of the victims sought help, most often from parents.
Of those who were bullied, 52 per cent were targeted at school compared to 25 per cent online and the same figure for the workplace. Many were victimized in multiple places.
Cyberbullying should be declared a health problem
Process of cyber bullying…
There could be many reason behind cyber bullying such as love, hatred, fun, revenge and affection. In most of the cases it has been found that affection is the major reason of cyberbullying specially among teenage. The culprit monitor the person activities or seeks other information through different means and post objectionable content, morphed photographs, doctored videos and obscene content about the person on public platform and also on the personal chat. which terrifies the victim. In some cases, where the victim is too young they did not report this fearing that it would increase the bullying. Cyberbullying may also be happened unknowingly (if it is not repeated). The impersonal nature of text messages, IMs, and emails make it very hard to detect the sender’s tone — one person’s joke could be another’s hurtful insult. Nevertheless, a repeated pattern of emails, texts, and online posts is rarely accidental.
With this active pacing technology one has to be cautious about one’s security and online safety and one should remember if at any point, you feel victim of something then don’t just wait to take any action or to report it… because it’s your life your peace and safety is all what matters and always remember these lines by Nicholas Thompson
“Privacy snafus are to social networks as violence is to football. The whole point of social networks is to share stuff about people that’s interesting, just as the whole point of football is to upend the guy with the ball. Every so often, someone gets paralyzed, which prompts us to add padding to the helmets or set new rules about tackling. Then we move on.”
