CYBER BULLYING IN

SENIOR HIGH
SCHOOL STEM
STUDENTS
RESEARCHER;
CHAPTER I
BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
As the days, years and generations pass by, the world of social media is growing
bigger and bigger. It becomes more advanced than ever and a lot of people want it to
improve and they think that it would be better if it continues to develop more than the
usual thing that we have nowadays. As it continues to grow, people have the
advantages it has been helpful to them in many aspects like connecting to other people
easily by chatting them or posting something that makes them feel like they're just close
to where you are. But opposite of the advantages that they have, they also have the
disadvantages of using social media like they experience cyber bullying which
can affect them emotionally. This cyber bullying is also growing which is resulting to
more incidents of it. Many people already experienced cyber bullying, not only the
known personalities like the government officials and celebrities but also an
ordinary individual may experience it. Cyber bullying causes the victim to be hurt
emotionally. According to ETCB or End to Cyber Bullying Organization, there are five
different forms of cyber bullying. First is the harassment, it includes the bully sending
offensive and malicious messages to an individual. Cyber stalking is form of harassment
that includes sending rude and threatening messages that can lead to a physical
harassment. The second is flaming which is somewhat similar to harassment but the
difference is it often direct harsh languages to a specific person. The third is
exclusion, many people already experience this because it's something that is
common thing that people do sometimes. The exclusion is like you're in a group chat
and then they blocked you and kicked you out of the chat and after that they will talk
badly of you, that is what we called exclusion. The fourth is outing, that is when the bully
posts something about an individual but the individual doesn’t know about that. The last
one is what we called masquerading which includes the bully to fake his identity. The
bully impersonates his chosen individual and harasses someone anonymously. In other
words, cyber bullying looks like it's easy to do and it's really not an issue but no, all of
this creates mess and hurts an individual emotionally. The purpose of this study is to
know the perceptions and experiences of cyberbullying in their academic performance
and also the kind of cyberbullying they experience among senior high school STEM
students.

STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM