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1. Cyber Bullying
Kelsie Tune & Erin Williams

2. What is cyber bullying?
Cyberbullying is bullying that takes place using electronic technology, which includes devices
such as mobile phones, computers, laptops and tablets as well as the communication tool of
social media websites such as, twitter, facebook, tumblr, ask.fm, flickr, instagram and many
more. However many cases of cyber bullying happens via text messages.

3. Examples of cyber bullying
Some examples of cyber bullying are:
• Threatening text messages or messages via social media sites
• Rumours posted on social networking sites
• Embarrassing photos being sent around their school and local area
• Fake accounts being made
However there are many other individual case of cyber bullying being committed via
other ways.

4. Who can be effected by cyber bullying?
• There is a wide age range of people who are victims in cyber bullying ranging from
early teenagers to people in their early thirties, yet there is still people outside this age
group that have also been a victim of this bullying.

5. When does cyber bullying take place?
• Cyber bullying can happen to someone 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
• The victim can often feel like they can not get away from the issue.
• Cyber bullying messages can be posted anonymously and distributed extremely
quickly to a very large audience, however some cases of cyber bullying are much
more discrete and sent straight to the victim via a personal message unable to be seen
by others
• These messages can be very difficult to trace and sometimes impossible to find the
sender of this message.

6. Social media
Social media sites themselves are not always to blame for cyber bullying as they can be
used in a much more positive way, such as:
• keeping in contact with a distant relative or friend
• sharing photos with your family and friends
and many other positive way which do not cause harm or cause anyone to be offended.

7. Facts
Statistics show that teenagers who have been cyber bullied are a shocking 47% more
likely to:
• Use alcohol and drugs
• Skip school
• Experience in-person bullying
• Be unwilling to attend school
• Receive poor grades
• Have lower self-esteem
• Have more health problems

8. Statistics
• Over half of adolescents and teens have been bullied online.
• On average only 1 in 10 of the victims confide in a parent, friend or any other adult.
• Fewer than 1 in 5 cases of cyber bullying is reported and investigated by UK police.
• 6 in 10 teenagers have sent sexual suggestive pictures to a boyfriend/girlfriend and 3
in 10 of these teenagers have had that photo sent onto others without their
permission.

9. More statistics
• Female teenagers are 55% more likely to be a victim of cyber bullying.
• Over 95% of teenagers use mobile phones and social media on a regular basis making
cyber bullying the second most popular form of bullying.
• Victims of cyber bullying are 37% more likely to consider suicide compared to people
who have not been a victim of cyber bullying

10. Individual cases of Cyber Bullying
Various individual cases show they all have the common link of being unable to stop the
sender and are unable to stop the sender of the bullying. Its also one individual case in
particular has stated ‘it’s a subject that sends shivers down the spines of most parents’ but
can relate to every single individual case.
A few quotes from some individual cases has shown to state that
Psychologist Dr Lucy Maddox said ‘for many young people opening up to parents can be
extremely difficult about subjects such as cyber blackmail.’
‘Dr Maddox said teenagers were prone to very risky behavior and were very influenced by
their peer groups and wanted to fit in.

11. Case 1
Another common link a few individual cases have shown is the unawareness family, friends and
peers were to the whole subject of cyber bulling, and that it was happening to someone they
knew, as one article quotes
‘He was a happy young boy, never showed any inclination of depression and the last type of
person you would think would take their own life.
Another case I came across was based on a young girl. 14-year-old Hannah Smith who was
described to of ‘lept to her own death after being attacked by cyber bullies on social media site
Ask.fm’
The teenager was described as receiving repulsive death threats from unknown users across the
site. But instead of sympathy, the un-named youngster faced an avalanche of abuse by trolls
being told to ‘kill herself’ ‘youre not normal’ and ‘nobody wants you’
Hannah smith was found hanged in the family home of Lutterworth, Leics, in August last year

12. Conclusion
These two stories are just one of many which occurs in the UK everyday. But after cyber
bullying being such a well known crime in the UK ‘many of the public population have
quoted ‘it should be shut down, but instead they're boasting about the number of hits and
members these websites such as Ask.fm are getting, and all the while – the Government
are doing nothing.