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Ryosuke Morishita
Prof. Adam Padgett
ENGL1102
March 30th, 2014
Cyberbullying: Present Ssituation
I had not been sure about cyberbullying, but I noticed what cyberbullying is and how
scary cyberbullying is through this research paper. First of all, I was wondering how I can
explain the term cyberbullying, a writer explains cyberbullying like The term
cyberbullying commonly is used to refer to communications among children and youth. But,
in the next chapter, he wrote Because cyberbullying has no clear definition, it is difficult to
measure. Also he says Much cyberbullying conduct is typical adolescent behavior.
In todays world, there are people suffering from cyberbullying. It is essential for young
people to have a device to use internet or mail. According to McGrath, young people use the
internet for an average of 1 hour and 17 minutes each day. This is because the internet is utilized
to do various things, for instance, collect a lot of data for homework, the news, play games, and
send mails. The more useful laptop or tablet such as iPad has become, the more internet users
will increase. Also while the users increase, more problems will occur. We can use the
internet everywhere in this technology life, but to put it the other way around it would be
possible for cyberbullying to occur not only in school but also everywhere. Therefore it could be
possible for many students to have been bullied online. As evidence, in this book, the writer
shows us a list. This is a data I summarized from the list.
Nearly 43 % of young people have been bullied online, and 710 % of students are cyber
bullied each term. Moreover, there is a fact that 70 % of students report seeing frequent online
Comment [AP1]: This definition seems unreliable.
Comment [AP2]: Okay, so what is he arguing here? can you clarify?
Comment [AP3]: This seems low. Are you sure it is correct?
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bullying. Also, cyberbullying is very dangerous for young students. This is because young
people do not have courage to report cyberbullying to their teacher. Therefore it is too hard to
escape cyberbullying. As a result of studying, the following results were calculated.
90 % of young people who have seen social networking bullying say they have ignored it,
however, 48 % of young people being cyberbullied do not report the incident. To make matters
worse, young people who are cyberbullied are 29 times more likely to consider suicide

If someone found a bullying, how would he/she react to that bullying? I think it seems to
be natural to report a teacher, but actually only a minority (1%) of the 859 pupils who were
witness to cyber-bullying alerted a teacher or a parent to the fact that a pupil was being cyber-
bullied. Also It was encouraging, however, that one in twenty pupils (6% girls and 5% boys)
said they tried to stop the bullying. The methods of intervention among boys, however, tended to
involve some form of verbal or physical aggression. I felt it is not good to involve a form of
physical aggression even in order to try to stop a bully. This is because that might makes it
possible to increase bullies. Therefore I think the best way to decrease bullies is to report a
teacher or parents.
Cyberbullying is a kind of crafty way to abuse someone. This is because a criminal can
bully anonymously. In todays world, because of anonymity, there are many problems including
cyberbullying that didnt solve yet. Therefore I guess the world on the internet could become
peace without anonymity. A writer refers to this. Cyberbullying is a particularly cowardly form
of abuse. Social communication technologies permit people who engage in cyber abuse to hide
in the anonymity of cyberspace. With anonymity, those who cyber abuses do not have to own
their actions, and they often do not fear being punished. The technology can also shelter the user
Comment [AP4]: Where is your citation?
Comment [AP5]: Good information here.
Comment [AP6]: But some say that cyberbullying is outside the jurisdiction of schools and parents, right? Howdo you respond to that?
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from tangible feedback about consequences of ones actions, which can result in minimized
empathy or remorse for the target of the bullying. I agree with him completely. All those who
cyberbully can feel free to blame someone without hesitation.

Unless someone abolishes institution of anonymous, some people would continue to do
cruel things. Therefore at least we should think of how to avoid cyberbullying. First of all, a
writer says Look for signs of harassment and signs of public humiliation. He means that cyber
bullies use public tactics, for instance, on social media site they might post a bad message. Also,
they might steal a password to hack someones accounts. That makes it possible to buy
something expensive.
Second, he refers to taking immediate action. He insists that this method has four steps. First
one is attempt to identify the cause. Second one is Stop responding to the bully's messages.
This is in order not to receive bullying message. Next one is Save the evidence and Block the
bully. It means that people are bullied online should block the person.
In summary of other methods, people who are bullied should report someone like school
administrators as soon as possible, and get law enforcement. I think law enforcement is very
effective because no one can beat the law at all.
In conclusion, the pPresent situation of cyberbullying is very bad. Therefore, more and
more people should know this situation, and try to improve these circumstances. Also, I want
people who are cyberbullied to know how you can avoid that as soon as possible. If more and
more people thought of this cruel situation, the world online will become much better than now.
Ryosuke,
You have done a good job presenting a very topical issue. I think you need to have a stronger
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Comment [AP7]: Which writer? Be more specific here.
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argument. Who is your ideal audience here? what do you want to convince them of? Everyone
believes that cyberbullying is a problem and should be stopped; so there is no point in arguing
that. What might be a valuable argument is how can we limit or end cyberbullying. You discuss
some possibilities, but stop short at making a clear and specific argument and then supporting
that argument. Do you think schools should do something about cyberbullying? If so what?










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Sharlene Chadwick Impacts of cyberbullying, building social and emotional resilience in
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Springer, 2014 p.17

Michael P Clough; Joanne K Olson; Dale S Niederhauser The nature of technology :
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Paul Stevens; Mona O'Moore; Project Muse, Bullying in Irish education : perspectives in
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Wiki How to do anything
http://www.wikihow.com/Stop-Cyber-Bullying