CYBERBULLYING- Teenagers: Attached to Technology, Detached from Consequence?
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inflicted cyberbullying.
In order for society to progress
and prevent bullying, the people who
use online networking and high-tech
devices — nearly everyone — must
recognize that there is a problem and
focus on the intensifying relationship
between the growing prominence of
technology in teenagers’ everyday
lives and technology’s psychological
influence on teenagers’ reasoning.
Factors, such as time online,
parental control, and emotional
prioritization to gadgets with social
networking conveniences, affect
how teenagers reason and choose to
handle cyberbullying.
Today’s new and innovative
methods to share, present, and com-
municate ideas parallel the evolving
technology rapidly becoming availa-
ble to the public. The issue of cyber-
bullying remains a psychologically
detrimental affliction, especially in
this transitional time period toward a
growing high-tech society.
Teenagers spend more time en-
gaged on mobile devices and social
networking websites compared to
time spent online four years ago.
Due to the upsurge in occupied time
online, more moderate parental
monitoring, and the emotional con-
nection to high-tech gadgets, the
advancing cyber world allows for an
inattentive and neglectful sense of
detachment when bullying occurs to
the effect where the bully does not
deliberate or feel bothered by the
potential consequences. The very
nature of comprehending and con-
trolling technology serves as the
psychological barrier which gives
reason for the victim to endure the
Over 60 percent of 11
to 18 year olds admit to
being ―very‖ or ―quite‖
obsessed to the Internet,
as found in research
conducted by
Cransfield School of
Management.
A colossal survey, conducted by Time magazine, as reported in 2012,
which examined 5,000 Americans, Chinese, Indians, Britons,
South Koreans, South Africans, Indonesians, and Brazilians,
revealed:
20 percent of respondents check their phone every 10 minutes.
84 percent could not go a single day without their cellphones.
50 percent of Americans sleep with their phone next to them
like a teddy bear or a spouse, a number that
includes more than 80 percent of 18-24 year olds.
T E E N P R I N T I N C .
Addict Adolescent Times
A P R I L 8 , 2 0 1 3 V O L U M E 1 , I S S U E 1
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The extent
of addiction
has
drastically
climbed
from 60
percent in
2009 to
84 percent
in 2012.
P A G E 2
Briefing: Accessibility and Parents Any young person
can text, set up an email,
Facebook, blog, Twitter,
MySpace, or any other
type of social networking
account. Setting up an
account is usually a fast
and easy process. Those
who make accounts
bargain their rights and
themselves to the
common online risk of
cyberbullying.
This includes the
power to share their per-
sonal lives with, phenom-
enally, the entire cyber
world, the psychological
stimulation of being
online, the anonymity, as
well as the augmented
chances of involvement
in cyberbullying, due to
the extensive time spent
online. Since almost all
of America’s teens go
online and own cell-
phones, with the promi-
nent escalation of occu-
pied time online, teens
are more susceptible to
cyberbullying today than
ever before.
About 34 percent of
parents check their
child’s social network
sites. Research by Taylor
Thomas reveals 67 per-
cent of teenagers know
how to block want they
want to hide from their
parents online.
About 20 percent of
kids think their parents
have no idea what they
are doing online, regard-
less of the existing Face-
book parental controls,
which can be unlocked.
The seemingly empower-
ing notion of what ap-
pears to be parental ab-
sence in the easy and ob-
tainable social network-
ing world emboldens
people to cyberbully.
technology as a crimi-
nal weapon‖ (Hinduja
& Patchin, 2008, pg.
131).
Although a horrible
cruelty and an illegal
offense in several
states of America so
far, cyberbullying does
not appear to be a di-
minishing problem
among young people. According to the US
Department of Health
and Human Services,
52 percent of teens do
not tell their parents
when cyberbullying
occurs.
In full acknowl-
edgement of the nu-
Social networking
websites, mobile com-
munication applica-
tions, and online usage
in general have
evolved into growing
necessities, integrated
into daily life by the
rising young genera-
tions.
As the cyber world
continues to release
new and advancing
high-tech smart devic-
es which connect to the
internet, people must
realize ―those who can-
not adjust rapidly, and
that is all of us, are at
risk from those who
can and will deploy
merous, promising, and
innovative benefits the
cyber world continues
to offer, and although
there may be nothing
unethically wrong with
having a sense of pos-
session and excitement
to personal devices,
young people, and
adults alike, must
proceed with caution,
control, and sensitivity
when online.
Addict Adolescent Times
Silence, when others are being hurt, is unacceptable.
Stand against cyberbullying, and visit here for more information:
http://www.stopcyberbullying.org/take_action/
take_a_stand_against_cyberbullying.html
P A G E 3
Cyberbullying differs from
face-to-face bullying.
Several factors serve advan-
tageously to the inflictor: ano-
nymity, accessibility to the victim
spanning 24 hours a day and 7 days
a week, and discretion from the out-
side world of adults. Since cyberbul-
lying does not require as much brav-
ery as face-to-face verbal and physi-
cal confrontation need, the cyber
bully does not feel as responsible for
the online or mobile vindictiveness.
The cyber bully mentally takes ad-
vantage of the physical separation
from the victim, which gives more
ease to abuse and harass. Texting,
sending a message on Facebook,
commenting in a chat room, instant
messaging, and emailing anony-
mously are so much simpler because
the communicative skills to physi-
cally speak, threaten, or fight in
person are missing. Therefore, the
cyber bullies psychologically detach
themselves from consequence
because they do not fear any retri-
bution from the victim. The enjoy-
ment and emotional power from
the psychological thrill of han-
dling their personal devices en-
courage cyber bullies to act out
with less reason in contrast to the
traditional physical, verbal, and
relational bullies. Such detach-
ment from an anticipation of the
consequences that may or may
not follow in abusing victims
concerns people because nowa-
days, teenagers lash out and say
things through a text message or
online without a feeling of ac-
countability. So many teens say
things online that they would not
dream of saying in person. These
high-tech devices authenticate
power and mental confidence in
those who know how to operate
them and dedicate a lot of time
to cyber hyperactivity. The ex-
tensive time and capability to
handle today’s technology fur-
ther enable the cyber bully to
achieve psychological and per-
emptory power by means of
technology conveniently availa-
ble to them – regardless if the
cyber bully has the face-to-face
communication skills or not.
Addict Adolescent Times
The cyber
bully
confidently
bullies due to
psychologically
encouraging
circumstances.
In a survey conducted by
the US Department of
Health and Human Services’
Cyberbullying Research Center
(2012), the Bureau of Justice Sta-
tistics reveal about 33 percent of
teens experienced
cyber threats online,
and 25 percent of teens
have been bullied
repeatedly through
their cell phones or on
the internet. About 39
percent of social net-
work users have been
cyber bullied in one
way or another. The victim’s will
and inclination to endure ongoing
cyberbullying and its psychologi-
cal effects intrigue many people to
this day. 1 in 4 victims tolerates
cyberbullying in fear for their safe-
ty. However, the victim’s fear for
safety and fear of retaliation by the
cyber bully – who quickly obtains
mental domination over the victim
– do not goad the victim to put up
with cyberbullying alone. Recent
studies suggest an even deeper
fear, one that correlates to teenag-
ers’ personal attachment to their
devices: fear of the loss of technol-
ogy. Completely eliminating the
smartphone and computer usage
serve as the ultimate ways teenag-
ers can avoid subjugation and har-
assment from cyber bullies. By
removing the technology from the
abuse equation, teenagers should
be able to get help and feel em-
powered to fully sep-
arate themselves from
the affliction and
move on. However,
due to teenagers’
attachment to their
devices, they cannot
simply give up the
psychological thrill of
maintaining an online
presence and identity. Most vic-
tims will tolerate the cyberbullying
– as long as no physical harm is
involved – rather than become
detached from the social network-
ing cyber world.
“Most victims will tolerate the
cyberbullying…rather than
become detached from the social
networking cyber world.”
Input from several doctors about the
―impersonal‖ problem with
cyberbullying.
ADDICTED HYPER-NETWORKING TEENS
According to Dr. Kim Mason’s (2012) study, the age range of addiction today stretches from 8
through 18 year olds who, on average, spend about 7 and a half hours a day online,
compared to about 4 and a half hours a day four years ago.
The American Academy of Pediatrics classify those who spend more than three hours per school
day on online social networks as ―hyper-networking teens‖. Whether through the use of a com-
puter or mobile device, hyper-networking teens are 110 percent more likely to be a victim of
cyberbullying, compared to those who do not spend as much time on social networks.
BE SAFE
Seton Hall University
Victoria L. Hilario
Dr. Martinelli
April 8, 2013