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How can social media bullying be prevented?

Cyberbullying is a modern form of bullying that follows the students to their homes when

using some social media or even the school social media. The use of social media has become

more concurrent nowadays, everyone has access nowadays even children. Most teenagers use

social media to communicate with their friends or for fun. On the other hand, it has become a

nightmare for many children suffering from social media bullying.

The adverse effect of cyberbullying has become a big problem not only for the people

who are damaged but their parents. Cyberbullying has been rampant and uncontrollable and

based on official statistics on cyber harassment, related crimes have increased at the rate of 57%

(Basheer, 2019).

However, preventing cyberbullying is more difficult than preventing any other type of

bullying. Firstly, teach the children to never share personal information online. For instance, if

someone shares their home address, phone number, or even his type of car, it might be a

potential target for cyberbullying. We may prevent cyberbullying by limiting the information we

share on the internet and making the children aware of the different types of cyberbullying.
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This type of solution might not be the only one, sharing with an adult what is happening

is crucial to take action on the matter, not being afraid to share the experience is the first step to

ending the problem the world is facing nowadays. An adult can take more serious actions to end

the suffering of a child, this is why we have to tell our parents what is going on with our social

media.

In addition, never respond to any provocation. Doing this does not help the problem at all,

it is an encouragement to your bullies to take advantage of you. Keep calm and ask for support as

I said before. It is important to figure out what the main victim groups are, that’s how it is

possible to develop target solutions.

These solutions are one of the easiest and the most effective ones. If a child tells their

parents how he is being treated they will act right away to end his child's suffering, they will talk

to their school director and event will take away social media from their child until everything is

solved.

Also, these are very easy to do, these solutions make them the more workable for

everyone to let the adults take the problem away. On the other hand, not doing these solutions

might lead to the child falling into depression or anxiety with more problems in the future.

Between 20% and 56% of young people are involved in bullying annually (Feldman,2013).
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In addition to these statistics in Borowsky's study of 6th, 9th, and 12th graders, 1.2% of

uninvolved youth made a suicide attempt, compared with 5% for those who frequently bullied

others verbally or socially; 6.5% for those who were frequent victims of verbal/social bullying;

and 11.1% for those who were frequent bully-victims of verbal/social bullying (Hertz,2013).

This solution is better than the other ones found on the internet because all they say is to

not answer them, shut down your social media, don’t talk to anyone and that’s not how we

prevent or erase the problem. The children really need to know how to deal with these types of

problems because they are being more common nowadays, some of them might be afraid of

telling their parents how they feel and what is going on with them because they are afraid of

being judged. Individuals who have experienced cyberbullying at some point in their lifetimes

have more than doubled from 18% to 37% (Patchin & Hinduia, 2019)

The children need to be empowered, no one can do anything to them without their

approval. On the other hand, the parents need to create a circle of trust with their own children.

The solution is not to delete your social media because this is how everyone communicates

nowadays; the real solution is for the parents to be closer to their children so they can let them

know if anything is happening in their lives, treat them as a friend who can tell everything is

going on, to check on them, to see the signs they are sending.
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