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When people start using technology to put people down, a new threat emerges. Click below to find out more about cyberbullying and why it has become so widespread.
Cyberbullying
Discuss:
1. After reading the article, how would you define cyberbullying?
2. What are some ways to help lessen the instances of cyberbullying?
3. Is it right for the government to get involved in such issues?
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1. After reading the article, how would you define cyberbullying?
Cyberbullying is a form of harassment or intimidation that occurs through digital communication channels, such as the internet, social media, mobile phones, or other electronic devices. It involves individuals, often children or teenagers, using these platforms to threaten, embarrass, or harm others, sometimes anonymously.
2. What are some ways to help lessen the instances of cyberbullying?
To help lessen the instances of cyberbullying, several strategies and preventative measures can be implemented as education and awareness, encouraging open communication between parents and children so that they feel comfortable discussing any of these problems or ensuring that mental health resources are available for victims.
3. Is it right for the government to get involved in such issues?
I think it is right for the government to get involved through for example facilitating all those preventive measures that I have mentioned before.
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1. After reading the article, how would you define cyberbullying?
I would define cyberbullying like a harass between children using Internet, social media nets or mobile phones.
2. What are some ways to help lessen the instances of cyberbullying?
Some ways to help lessen the instances of cyberbullying are to show children that they should respect others children and they are responsible of what they do.
3. Is it right for the government to get involved in such issues?
Yes it’s right for the government to get involved in such issues, I think the government should conduct campaigns to get people take aware of this problem.
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1. After reading the article, how would you define cyberbullying?
Cyberbullying is the way that children or adolescents harass others over the internet.
2. What are some ways to help lessen the instances of cyberbullying?
The most important thing is to teach children and adolescents to respect others. Furthermore, it is necessary to teach that if they suffer bullying they should notify their parents.
3. Is it right for the government to get involved in such issues?
Yes, it is right. It is good that the government carries out advertising campaigns against cyberbullying
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1. After reading the article, how would you define cyberbullying?
It’s the way many people enjoy harassing others over the internet.
2. What are some ways to help lessen the instances of cyberbullying?
It´s complicated because always are bad people out to the internet.
The way is to educate well our children
Is it right for the government to get involved in such issues?
When cyberbullying becomes a general problem or a crime, it is necessary
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1. It’s the bullying that could exist before, but elevated to a “window” like the internet, from which you can reach so many people that it can be very dangerous. Currently I believe that society is too exposed to the outside world and this type of action is very easy to carry out and more anonymously by people who want to do harm.
2. I think it would be very interesting if the networks stopped being so free in terms of responsibility. In this way, if we all had to identify ourselves, the number of people who take advantage of that anonymity to attack would be fewer.
In addition, I believe that the laws and judicial penalties should adapt to the new times and punish this type of behavior and the consequences.
3. I have already answered it in my previous answer, I think, but yes, I think the laws should be modified to toughen the punishments for this type of act, both for minors and adults.
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1. After reading the article, how would you define cyberbullying?
I would define cyberbullying as a way of making some hurt in the internet whithout knowing who is the real guilty.
2. What are some ways to help lessen the instances of cyberbullying?
Some ways to lessen the instances of cyberbullying are teaching young people how to respect others and how important privacy is to eachone.
3. Is it right for the government to get involved in such issues?
Is it extremly important to government to get involved, they must act as a key point making some educational curses, focus in respect and privacy.
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After having read the article, I would define cyberbullying as constant aggressions, humiliations and psychical violence to other person via Internet and social networks, especially during the school stage.
According to the text, the intervention of teachers and parents can help lessening the instances of cyberbullying. Also, I think that it would be necessary that parents control the use of social networks of their children.
By last, I agree it is necessary that government intervene in extreme cases as cyberbullying can evoke the suicide of the victim
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1. After reading the article, how would you define cyberbullying?
For me is ongoing bullying using media such as social media taking advantage of anonymity
2. What are some ways to help lessen the instances of cyberbullying?
Is very important respect the private of others and I think that is most important is the education what our children receive
3. Is it right for the government to get involved in such issues?
Yes of course we need that the government they are more hardest with the laws and help with the education in the school
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