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Cyber Bullying: Its effects on our teenagers
1. Today's society depicts childhood as a safe, carefree time.
Adolescents these days are under pressure to achieve in
the classroom, on the sports field, to please
parents, teachers and coaches. They are caught up with
the increasing peer pressure in this fast paced modern
society and are overwhelmed by the different choices to
make.
2. Teenage boys and girls needs are far more complex these
days. When confronted with a traumatic event, boys and
girls react differently. Where do they run to?
Naturally, they go to their comfort zones, the Home. Are
the parents equipped with the psychological skills to
cope, to counsel? Although family members do provide
moral support, professional counselors have always
applied different counseling methods in dealing with
teenage boys and girls in trauma situations.
3. Take this common situation: Bullying, a parent's
perennial nightmare, has expanded beyond school yards
and neighborhoods. Boys who were being harassed by
bullies used to escape by hiding or avoiding the face to
face situation that would make their life difficult.
4. However, with the increasing use of cell
phones, laptops, electronic tablets provides easy access to
social networking sites for teenage boys and girls. This
ease of access to social networks has resulted in the
increase of Cyber Bullying. Cyber bullying doesn't require
the bullies to physically see or meet with their victims -
the harassment is done electronically (text
messages, email, and voice mail) and from afar.
5. Oftentimes, Cyber Bullying is as simple as an unhappy
teenager posting derogatory comments on a social
networking site or a group of boys campaigning to flood
the victim's email account with spam but, iIn most cases
the parents are the last to know what is going on. In these
types of situations, Teenagers have a natural tendency to
distance themselves from their parents and depend on
friends to provide emotional support.
6. Boys struggle to become independent adults in this
complex modern society; their peer support network is
more vital to them than ever. When these so called
"friends" turn on them, they may be left isolated. On
the otherhand, girls tend to rely on what their mother
would to say. Mothers prefer to listen first, similarly to a
professional counseler would. However, sometimes teen
girls tend to strike back after experiencing the the pain
and anger of Cyber Bullying. Thus, these young ladies
become "cyber bullies" themselves, compounding the
problem. In most cases, boys seem to just shrug it off with
"words won't harm us anyway", although they may
suppress the effects of the Cyber Bullying causing more
deep seated issues.
7. However they react, the feelings of anger and isolation
experienced by our teens can lead to physical violence
toward others. When the confidence and self esteem are
sufficiently damaged, depression can easily follow. The
early detection through counseling with a
professional, working side by side with parents and family
members, is a good step to take to help these children
deal with the difficulties they are experiencing.