Bullying through popular social media

Many people bully others over social media.

They do this because they feel more secure and anonymous behind a screen.

so the effects are smaller, right?"

wrong.

So the issue is,

why do people do this to one another?

watch this to see some shocking facts.

Problems can't solve themselves.

That's why the question isn't to rid the world of it,

it's to simply limit it.

By working together,

First,

According to expandedramblings.com,

that's about 140 million daily users.

And more importantly,

how can we propose a solution

But it's not just Instagram where this is happening.

Sites like Twitter and Facebook are

over 645 million users.

And according to statisticbrain.com,

58 million tweets a day.

There is plenty of room for a couple of tweets

And if you thought that Instagram and Twitter had a large population of people,

1,300,000,000 people.

This is more than Instagram and twitter combined.

So, with this growing problem of cyber bullying,

Finding a solution

We need to get the big picture

• Who is affected by cyber bullying?
• Why does this happen?
• When does this happen?
• What factors the major reaction to this problem?

In order to help this problem,

Monitoring a child's social media outlet provides a place to know what's happening.

And if something is happening...

Someone can help.

schools can also provide

in order to stop this,

shocking.

Last year, nine teen suicides were linked to bullying on Ask.fm, a website that lets people ask questions and leave comments anonymously. -New York Times

Over half of adolescents and teens have been bullied online,

have experienced cyberthreats online.

Over 25 percent of adolescents and teens

Well over half of young people do not tell their parents when cyber bullying occurs.

So, keeping these facts in mind, what can we do to reduce this?

a few good ideas are-

• School Monitors
• Internet Monitors
• Help For Bystanders

School monitors.

If someone can monitor their friends' Instagram page, we could catch cyber bullying through this.

Internet monitors

Adults could monitor pages and blogs. This could inform a parent when their child is being cyber bullied.

Help for bystanders

If a bystander doesn't speak up, the problem goes on.

so many cases of bullying would be reported and stopped.

if we speak up,

SOMEONE HAS TO HELP

today?

bibliography

• https://docs.google.com/a/cms.gaggle.net/document/d/15qwIc9oCB0hTCXsP1E8pQb...