Cyber bullying can be remained as anonymous as using temporary email accounts, random names in chat rooms, social networking websites and many other internet venues to hide their identity. By doing this, it perhaps gives them the opportunity to expose their abnormal behaviors and actives which the cyber bullies wouldn’t be able to do in their normal life.
Furthermore, the cyber bullies think by using electronic technologies to carry out their agenda uses less energy and more courage to comment over a keypad or a keyboard. Additionally, electronic chat rooms are lack of supervision because it is almost impossible to trace the users and the users can communicate with each other freely. Also, when youngsters know how to operate these technologies and better than their parents, they can use them with no concern whether their parents will ever discover on what they are doing.
Furthermore, the cyber bullies think by using electronic technologies to carry out their agenda uses less energy and more courage to comment over a keypad or a keyboard. Additionally, electronic chat rooms are lack of supervision because it is almost impossible to trace the users and the users can communicate with each other freely. Also, when youngsters know how to operate these technologies and better than their parents, they can use them with no concern whether their parents will ever discover on what they are doing.
Cyber bullying is extremely difficult to prevent over the internet. Once a picture or a comment is posted on the internet, many people can potentially view the posted picture or the comment before it is removed.
Victims of cyber bullied can avoid the situations from happening by avoiding chat rooms and forums. Also, phones numbers and email addresses can be changed. In addition, many phone network providers and email accounts now offer services which enable the users to filter out messages from certain users and also the similar service such as ID caller functions.
i don't think teenagers will avoid chat rooms. it's the same thing as asking people not to use Facebook at all..
ReplyDeletebut i agree that technology is a cause of cyber-bullying.. :)
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Hi Vivienne,
ReplyDeleteChat rooms and chatting services are different. Msn is a chatting service. Chat rooms are those on the internet which are arranged due to different topics.
Truthfully, I do not use chat rooms nowdays, but I do use chatting services.
Thanks for your comment and sorry for the extreme delay in reply.