Hundreds of surveys and studies have proved over past two decades how violent T.V programs affect teenagers. The researchers identified that regular watching of violent programs increased fear and also made them afraid of the entire world around them. Sometimes violence is portrayed as humor or fun activities in many television programs which influence a [...]
Cyber bullying can occur in many diverse areas such as web sites, e-mails, cell phones, text messaging, three-way calling, blogs, video and many other type of communication that take place by electronic means. Cyber bullies most often know the consequences of their crime and yet they go ahead and do it.
Cyber bullying stats show that [...]
We will now begin to explore a sub-set of Cyber Bullying known as Sexting. Sexting occurs when students send porn photographs and sexually explicit messages through e-mails and texting with cell phones. This term became popular around the year 2005 as more and more people, especially young students, began the practice.
Students, all too often, send [...]
In today’s fast paced world children and teenagers—your students—are the most common victims of cyber bullying. Cyber Bullying is termed as mental harassment, mental threatening or mental embarrassment usually occurring through some form of technological tools, i.e. emails and social networking sites. Sending text messages, instant messages and emails, posting spiteful photographs or messages about [...]
Cyber bullying, as discussed in the last post, refers to students being beleaguered, threatened, stressed, mortified and embarrassed by others through the internet or other digital technologies. At times students develop suicidal tendencies in the most extreme cases of cyber bullying. We know that the internet is full of people who have very bad intentions. [...]