Cyberbullying

Cyberbullying

•  Cyberbullying is when someone, typically teens, bully or harass others on the internet, particularly on social media sites. Harmful bullying behavior can include posting rumors, threats, sexual remarks, a victims' personal information, or pejorative labels. 

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                                                Types of Cyberbullying

• Cyberbullying: is a form of online harassment in which the perpetrator uses electronic                                          communications to stalk a victim.                                                                           

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• Trolling: internet trolls intentionally try to provoke or offend others in order to elicit a                                reaction; trolls and cyberbullies do not always have the same goals.                             

• In social media: cyberbullying can take place on social media sites such as Facebook or                                        Twitter..., the last decade has witnessed a surge of cyberbullying, bullying that                             occurs through the use of electronic communication technologies, such as e-                                mail, instant messaging, social media, online gaming, or through digital                  messages or images sent to a cellular phone.                                                      

• In gaming: Gaming was a more common venue for men in which to experience harassment,                         where women's harassment tended to occur via social media.Most respondents                           considered gaming cultureto be equally welcoming to both genders, though 44%                          thought it favored men.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Harmful effects         
• Intimidation, emotional damage, and suicide: According to the Cyberbullying Research Center, "there have been several high‐profile cases involving teenagers taking their own lives in part because of being harassed and mistreated over the Internet, a phenomenon we have termed cyberbullicide – suicide indirectly or directly influenced by experiences with online aggression.
                                                                          
• On youth and teenagers: The effects of cyberbullying vary, but research illustrates that cyberbullying adversely affects youth to a higher degree than adolescents and adults. Youth are more likely to suffer since they are still growing mentally and physically.
• Suppression of speech: By at least 2018, some doctors have been targets of online harassment from anti-vaccine activists responding to their social media posts, including hundreds of negative false reviews on doctor ratings sites. This made some of the doctors more reluctant to share information about vaccines, but others formed groups to spread factual information about vaccine safety on social media in response.