Bullying Prevention And Safety
Bullying is using influence to intimidate someone or repeatedly hurting someone. This normally takes place during school hours and is typically is caused by school aged children. Bullying takes many different names such as, verbal, social, and physical bullying. Every type of bullying goes from individual bullying to group bullying that can also be called mobing. Not only can it affect the person getting bullied, it can also affect the bullier and the one that witnesses the bullying.
Most of these kids get attached to negative things such as, depression, mental health, substance use, decreased academic achievements, and lastly suicide. These things may come to a surprise to some people, but this is why bullying needs to be prevented at all costs. Bullying does not always take place at school, it can also take place online. This is called cyberbullying. Cyberbullying is taken place on an electronic device to bully someone, commonly by sending messages of a threatening nature. This can take place anywhere from messaging to gaming that others can view. The most frequent places for cyber bullying to occur is on social media such as Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, and Twitter, Text Message, and Email.
The worst thing about cyberbullying is that once someone posts someone or something it can never get deleted no matter how much one may try. These things are persistent, permanent, and hard to notice. Cyberbullying can also have the same results to a person as normal bullying does. As one can see, especially in today's world the web is the main place that people now are getting bullied and this is why everyone needs to learn the ideas of internet safety. This is trying to be safe on the internet and the learning of expanding a user’s personal safety and security risks to secretive information and property associated with the net. There is six simple ways in helping someone find internet safety. These steps consist of keeping the computer in a high- traffic area of one's home which will prevent random people gain access to one's information. Establishing limits for which online sites children may visit and for how long. Remembering that internet technology can be mobile. Be involved with what one’s child does on the internet and who they are friends with.
Lastly, continue to remind a child about internet safety. Social networking is the use of dedicated websites and applications to interact with others users, or to find people with similar interests to oneself. The advantages of social networking is that most companies or starter companies use this to create a name for themselves. It can create a place where one can discover blogs, companies, and other comments from different people. Although it sounds like a safe thing, it has many disadvantages. Posting something for your 15 followers is not the same as posting something for 15000 followers. Most associations want to be paid for advertising and this is something that is free. Social Networking can be accessed by anyone, so this there can be a very negative side to it once people begin to cyber bully.
