A powepoint on Ethics of Cyberbullying

1. Ethics of Cyber Bullying
By : Jessy Park

2. • When the majority of people think about ethical issues revolving around technologies,
they think about things like hacking or misuse of personal data. However, despite all
of those problems, cyber bullying is actually one of the biggest concern.
• Technology and the Internet has given everyone in the world the ability to access
innumerable information, which most of them are informative and appropriate, but
others contains inappropriate contents, such as hate speech or pornographic content.
• I would say technology has enabled teenagers to connect themselves with the outside
world. Of course, this may be good if they send text, email, or communicate through
the Internet, wanting to keep in touch with friends or family. However, it becomes a
concern when someone tries to use technology as a way to spread hate and bully
people. Do you think that is ethical? For me, I think cyber bullying or any other
bullying is not ethical at all.
• Today, cyber bullying occurs at home, inside and outside of the classroom, and even
in a wider community. The ethical issue is that the victims of cyber bullying are
severely being humiliated, threatened, and harassed, which often leads to suicide.
Ethical perspective of Cyber bullying

3. What is Cyber bullying?
• Cyber bulling is a form of bullying where one gets perpetually harassed,
tormented, threatened, or humiliated by another person or group
through the use of Internet or any other technological device. It
basically takes place utilizing electronic technology such as cell phones,
computers, tablets, as well as social media communication tools.
• Sending offensive or harassing messages & using texts or social
network sites to abuse and harass someone. Cyber
bullying is often done anonymously.
• Cyber bulling is still becoming an extremely
common form of bullying throughout the world
in which the victim’s lives have become
distressing and filled with fear.

4. Cyber bullying: Direct Attacks
• Direct attacks of cyber bullying includes text messaging harassment,
stealing passwords, impersonation, sending various pictures through
emails & social networks, and using blogs & websites.
• Text messaging Harassment- Bullies may send offensive,
threatening, or hateful messages to others without knowing
that it can seriously affect someone because certain words
can be serious and hurtful.
• Passwords stealing- The bully may steal
someone’s password, go into the account, and start to
chat with other people, faking to be the real person of the
account.The bully may even say hurtful or abusive things
and cause anger and hatred to that person’s friends or strangers.
• Blogs & Websites- People sometimes use blogs as a way
to damage others’ privacy and reputation.They create
fake blogs or websites pretending to be the real person and
plan to humiliate them.

5. Cyber bulling By Proxy:
• When the cyber bully commands other person or someone to abuse or
do the dirty work, it’s called, “ Cyber bullying by proxy”. It is one of the
most harmful cyber bullying because it gets a lot of people involved
and it may be anonymous. The bully may sometimes try to get the
friends of the victim or even complete strangers to be involved to
become a part of the group and harass the victim.
• One serious example of cyber bullying by proxy is where the bullies
take complete control of the victim’s account and send mean
messages to all the friends on the list.The bully may also hack into the
victim’s private account and steal their password so the victim can’t
get into his/her account.After doing that, they can even set up a new
account faking to be the victim.This would cause a lot of problems and
will most likely bring anger to the friends of the victim. Most of the
times, the friends would not know that it was the cyber bully doing it.

6. Forms of Cyber bullying
• Since all interactions occurs online, it is very easy for the bullies to harass or
abuse someone whenever or wherever they wish.The text messages they send
can also disseminate rapidly and spread to numerous people.
• There are various ways in which cyber bullying can occur – offensive messages,
spreading private information or rumors, impersonation, and many more.
1. Harassment: I would say when the cyber bullying is persistent and personal, it is often
referred as “ Harassment”. This form of cyber bullying is when the bully continuously “ pick
on” someone and repeatedly send offensive and insulting messages to the victim.
2. Flaming: This is a common form of bullying where it is an “ online conflict”.The bully and
the victim would use hurtful and vulgar language to one another through the internet or
social networks.
3. Exclusion & outing: First of all, exclusion is another type of cyber bullying in which the
bully purposely single out and leave a person out from an online groups on social networks
or other sites. After excluding that person, the group would then consistently leave hurtful
and abusive messages and harass the person that they “ singled out”. Outing is another
form of cyber bullying where the bully would share private or personal information,
pictures, or anything that would humiliate the victim publicly. When the information of the
victim has been spread through the internet, the victim is considered as “ outed”.

7. Reasons for Cyber bullying
• Boredom & Entertainment- Unfortunately, most bullies find bullying others entertaining.They think harassing
and humiliating someone is funny when it’s actually not.The bullies are usually in groups where they target one
specific person and abuse them through the internet.They add excitement and drama in their lives through
cyber bullying.
• Peer Pressure- Cyber bullies generally think that bullying others through social networks or any other site is
normal and acceptable with their friends by their sides.
• Revenge / Frustration- In some cases, cyber bullies don’t see themselves as bullies, but they are just
protecting their friends or someone or help in attempting to get back at someone who maltreated them.
• Power- Bullies tend to bully other people because they think it will show others that they are powerful and have
absolute control of them.They basically want to gain power and want other people to be fearful of them.
Hurting others makes them powerful is their thoughts.
• Anonymity-Since the bullies can easily avoid facing the victims , it provides them with the illusion that they
won’t get caught. Cyber bullying can be anonymous, which makes it more dangerous.
• Ignorance of the consequences- Most of the cyber bullies do not realize the effects of it for themselves.
• You may wonder “Why do people cyber bully others?”
Below are several reasons why:

8. Effects of Cyber bullying
• Anxiety / Depression: The victims of cyber bullying often makes them doubt their worth and
value. When they get bullied, they experience anxiety and extreme depression, which may also
lead to other illnesses. Not only does the victim experience these effects, the bullied often face
depression & anxiety too.
• Bullying others: Cyber bullying victims may sometimes receive too much pain that they would
do the same thing that they received to harm others.
• Poor academic performance: Cyber bullying victims tend to avoid school
because they don’t want to face the people bullying them or because they
feel humiliated and embarrassed by the messages that were shared.Their
grades will be poor too because they may experience stress and anxiety that
they can’t concentrate on studying.
• Suicide: Cyber bullying increase the rates of suicide. When the victims are seriously threatened
and tormented by the bullies through text messages, social media, and instant messaging, they
often feel worthless and hopeless. As a result, they end their life by suiciding to stop the pain
from the tormentors.
• Anyone can be the victims of cyber bullying – young children, teenagers, and even adults.

9. More Consequences of
Cyber bullying
• Mood changes: Cyber bullying have to often face mood swings where they can’t
control themselves.Their behavior may change instantly and they will most
likely have a negative mood that lasts throughout the day and on other days.
They can also experience insomnia, headaches, and extreme fatigue.The
continuation of the changes in their moods can increase the risks of leading
them to other severe illnesses.
• Stress-related disorders & other disorders: Due to the harsh messages and
pain the victims get from the cyber bullies, cyber bullying causes intense stress
for most of the victims.
• Isolation from friends and family: Cyber bulling mostly exclude the victims of
the bullying from friends at school. Some people who were the victims’ best
friends may start to avoid the victim and school.Also , the victim will most likely
spend less time with his / her family at home .

10. How Cyber- bullied victims react?

11. Real Life Examples
• Ryan Halligan is a 13 year old boy fromVermont who was a victim of cyber
bullying in 2013. At the time, he was harassed and humiliated by his friends online
in which he received many messages questioning his sexual orientation. Due to
the continuation of his peers cyber bullying on him, he decided to kill himself. He
is not the only victim.There are countless teenagers being cyber bullied and 80 %
of them chooses suicide as a way to escape.
• Another depressing example was a 17 year old girl named, Rachael Neblett. She
was a student at Bullitt East school who was less than 5 feet tall. Even though her
height was an advantage for her in gymnastics and cheerleading, she was often a
target for the bullies.Through her MySpace account, she began to continually
receive threatening emails by an anonymous in 2006. Despite this happening, she
kept it as secrets from her parents because she didn’t want to worry them.
Extreme desperation and depression came to her and soon, she decided to take
her life.
• Cyber bullying has caused numerous deaths by leading the victims to suffer
and at the end, choose suicide as a way to end the bullying.

12. • More than half of the teenagers and young adolescents said that they
have been bullied online. 1 out of 4 has said it has occurred more than
once for them.
• 81 % of people think that cyber bullying is an easier way to harass others
than bullying in person because you can easily get away with it.
• 90% of people who experiences cyber bullying tends to not report the
abuse but rather keep to themselves until it completely destroys them or
they choose to suicide.
• Girls are twice the victims and perpetrators of cyber bullying compared to
boys.
• Most cyber bullying victims experience low self esteem & other disorders
and even considers suicide.

13. Graph on Cyber bullying

14. Ways to Alleviate Cyber bullying
( Prevention)
• Schools can take actions where they teach the children about the seriousness and
awareness of cyber bullying.
• If you know anyone or someone who is being bullied, I recommend you to go tell
an adult about the situation. If you are the victim, do not be afraid to inform any
adult.You shouldn’t be keeping it to yourself and letting the pain cut you deep.
• Remember that it won’t get resolved if you just ignore the situation. Also, if you
are being bullied, make sure you stay calm before you take any action and do
anything wrong. You can also try to block the cyber bullying person or group of
people .
• You should never share personal information online to anyone or
to meet someone that you only know through the internet.
• Keep the records as evidences and always try to reach for help.Also,
keep in mind that it is not your fault that the bullying situation is
happening.

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