One of the trends today is taking selfies. It is believed that Self-portrait or selfie’s have been practiced many years ago. It just happen that there are increasing number of people who use the word “selfie” whenever they take pictures of themselves through the influence of social media. Wilson(2014) declared the City of Makati, Philippines ranks the highest number of people, taking selfies with 258 selfie-takers per 100,000 people.. This article is an implication that Filipinos were a huge fan of selfies. Being a fan of taking selfies are not always advantageous, according to Silverman (2013) Selfies are one of the components of cyberbullying that can lead to worst case scenario. Youth who takes selfies is often believed as a sign of approval from their peers by posting it to social media like facebook and instagram. But, once they failed to gain or attract attention and approval to their desire peer group it may lead into cyber bullying. In fact, according to Sellgren(2014) Cyber bullying cases The study would use several survey scales for gathering data more specifically on selected teenagers. Participants and Sampling There were (n=160) teenagers who participated throughout the study from muntinlupa, las piñas, paranaque and san pedro, laguna. The willing respondents who participated are all selfie takers, a person who takes selfies at least once a day up to extremities. The study would use purposive as its sampling technique. Instrumentation Selfie behavior questionnaire. It includes question about the level of their selfie behavior. Question such as, how often do you take selfie’s daily? Age and gender is also included on this questionnaire to provide some demographic information about the
are going through is a form of bullying. As a result the previously safe environment of the internet is now becoming a source of confusion and anxiety. Cyberbullying is the use of e-mail, instant messaging, chat rooms, pagers, cell phones, or other forms of information technology to deliberately harass, threaten, or intimidate someone. Cyberbullying is often done by users who have increasing access to these technologies. The problem is compounded by the fact that a bully can hide behind an electronic…
Rachael Roesener Professor Shipe English 111-012N 16 February 2015 Cyberbullying Suicide. This is a word people often come up with when they think of cyberbullying. This is because cyberbullying isn’t your typical playground, cornering a kid type of bullying. That kind you can go home and escape from. Cyberbullying you cannot escape from, it floods your life until you cannot stand it anymore. You see no other way out but ending your own life. This is the problem that schools are currently facing…
concern for Central High School has been the rise in cyberbullying. Cyberbullying is defined as “in which people use new communication technologies, such as social media and texting, to harass and cause emotional harm to their victims” (ISBE, Suicide Resource Prevention Center). At Central High School…
Chelsea Hall CM107 College Composition Lonelle Rathje Cyberbullying Paper. Cyberbullying may seem like nothing since there is no physical contact, but in reality it can hurt more than one would expect. Behind these monitors are real people with real feelings, who have been driven to depression or even worse suicide. Perpetrators of cyber-bullying are sometimes called trolls, ie people who engage in prolonged & often systematic attacks on people via blog comments, internet forms and social…
Cyber Safe – Identifying and Combatting Cyber Bullies 2. Bullying exists because it is the actions in how we treat each other. The term bullying is the process of one individual going out of their way to hurt another. Bullies often target people that they think can’t stand up for themselves. 3. Although anyone can become a bully, bullies are usually people with low self-esteem that physically or emotionally hurt someone to make themselves feel good. Often bullies have grown up in abusive…
Cyber-Bullying is when a child, preteen or teen is tormented, threatened, harassed, humiliated, embarrassed or otherwise targeted by another child, preteen or teen using the Internet, interactive and digital technologies or mobile phones. It is normally instigated by minor and is targeted towards another minor. When an adult finds out, it is called cyber-harassment or cyber-stalking. When an adult is targeted, it is never called cyber-bullying. Cyber-Bullying is a Cyber-Crime; a Cyber-Crime is a…
social media is 'Cyberbullying'. Cyberbullying defined shortly, ''When a minor uses technology as a weapon to intentionally target and hurt another minor''. Youths call each other names, belittle, and threaten each other to, in some serious cases, the point of suicide. Statistics show over 50% of teens have been bullied online and about the same have been engaged in cyberbullying, only one in ten of these youths actually tell their parents. It has been proved victims of cyberbullying that are 14/15…
It’s Hard To Escape: Cyberbullying Imagine you are 12 years old; you are being bombarded with comments like “Drink bleach and die”, “Why don’t you go kill yourself.” and “You should die”. What do you do? Sadly, for Rebecca Ann Sedwick this was a reality. Rebecca Ann Sedwick was a 12-year-old girl who was harassed and cyber bullied by two girls to the point where she desperately took her own life. The worst part is, this is far from the first time that this has happened. In fact, Rebecca’s case…
The Dangers of.. CYBER BULLYING http://www.cyberbullyalert.com/blog/2008/10/stories-of-cyber-bullying/ http://cyberbullyinghelp.com/2010/09/10/dangers-of-cyberbullying-online-threats/ http://www.theonlinemom.com/secondary.asp?id=965 Permanence: The insults, comments or images can be preserved by the person who was bullied or by others so that the victim may read or view them over and over again and the harm is re-inflicted with each reading or viewing. Audience size: The size of…
