INTRODUCTION

Cyberbullying is a term used to define recurrent and sustained verbal and online attacks
by one or more children upon the victim with the use of cell phones, instant messaging, e-mail,
chat rooms or social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter to harass, threaten or
intimidate someone. Cyber means involving computers or computer networks while Bullying
means use superior strength or influence to intimidate someone. Cyberbullying is often done by
children, who have increasingly early access to these technologies. The problem is
compounded by the fact that a bully can hide behind a pseudonymous user name, disguising
his or her true identity. This secrecy makes it difficult to trace the source and encourages bullies
to behave more aggressively than they might in a situation where they were identified.

Like classic bullying, cyberbullying is harmful with repeated and more hostile behavior
intended to emotionally traumatize the victim. Cyberbullying can include such acts as making
threats, sending provocative insults or racial or ethnic slurs, gay bashing, attempting to infect
the victim's computer with a virus and flooding an e-mail inbox with messages. If you are a
victim, you can deal with cyberbullying to some extent by limiting computer connection time, not
responding to threatening or defamatory messages, and never opening e-mail messages from
sources you do not recognize or from known sources of unwanted communications. More active
measures include blacklisting or whitelisting e-mail accounts, changing e-mail addresses,
changing ISPs, changing cell phone accounts and attempting to trace the source.

Because the use of mobile and online communications has grown so rapidly and the
crime is relatively new, many jurisdictions are deliberating over cyberbullying laws. However, the
crime is covered by existing laws against personal threats and harassment. In some cases, it
may be advisable to inform the local police department or consult an attorney. It is not
recommended that you retaliate in kind because such behavior can lead to heightened attacks,
or even civil actions or criminal charges against you.

We entitled our research paper as the EFFECTS OF CYBERBULLYING FOR THE TVL
11-5 STUDENTS OF ACLC COLLEGE OF TAYTAY SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL.

We proposed this title to know the effects of cyberbullying to the students of ACLC
College of Taytay specifically for the section of TVL 11-5.
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The history of Cyberbullying
While bullying has been around for ages now, cyberbullying began with the introduction
of social media and forums back around the early 2000s. The instances of cyberbullying grew
when people realized that they could bully others online and get away with it this interestingly
coincides with the year Facebook became widely available to the public. Smartphones or other
devices that take a user online whilst out and about have further increased the accessibility for
bullies to contact victims.

As technology has advanced, the incidence of cyberbullying has also advanced. Cell
phones began to become more prevalent during the 1990s. In 2004, 45 percent of teens polled
by the Pew Research Internet Project owned cell phones. In 2010, 75 percent of teens polled
owned a cell phone and in 2014, 78 percent of teens have one. In addition, mobile use and
access has evolved to the point where currently, three of four teenagers have access to the
Internet on a mobile device at least occasionally. With the prevalence of electronic technology in
todays world, cyberbullying is a real and current concern for both kids and parents.
Cyberbullying is any bullying activity that happens using electronic technology, such as
cellphones, computers or tablets, according to StopBullying.gov. Because this kind of
technology became widely available in recent years, it has a short, but definitive history.

Before there was cyber-anything, there was the field of cybernetics. Pioneered in the late
1940s by a group of specialists in fields ranging from biology to engineering to social sciences,
cybernetics was concerned with the study of communication and control systems in living
beings and machines. The interest in how systems work is reflected in the etymology
of cybernetic, which comes from the Greek word kubernts (), steersman,
from kubernan to steer.
 The role played by cybernetics in the growing fields of computer science, biology, and
engineering provided the term cybernetic a futuristic sheen. The shortened combining form
cyber-, it soon became apparent, offered people perfect fodder for nonce formations. Starting in
the 1960s and continuing into the 1990s, the English language saw a proliferation of temporary
or nonce words based on cyber, including cybercubicle, cyberfriend, cyberlover, cybersnob, and
even adverbs like cyber-sheepishly. The most lasting word creation of the 1960s, though, was
certainly cyborg, which, combining the cyb- of cybernetics with the org- or organism, referred to
a man-machine being with the capability of self-adapting to new environments.

Even though cyber- had been attaching itself to other words for more than two decades
already, the term cyberspace only appeared in 1982, apparently coined by William Gibson in his
science fiction novella Burning Chrome. According to its Oxford English Dictionary(OED)
entry, cyberspace is the space of virtual reality; the notional environment within which electronic
communication (esp. via the Internet) occurs. Although other cyber-formations cropped up,
including cyberworld, cyberland, Cyberia (punningly after Siberia), and cybersphere (which is
actually attested to earlier than cyberspace), cyberspaceremains by far the most
popular cyber- term used to refer more broadly to the world of electronic communications
(including the Internet), although its popularity peaked in the late 1990s.

Although cyber- once had a lock on word formations relating to the Internet and new
technology, everything changed with the rise of e- in the 1990s and 2000s. Spearheaded by the
now-ubiquitous email, the combining form e- has assumed cybers highly productive spot in tech
word formation, even supplanting previous cyber formations with its own versions. For instance,
you probably wont hear websites batting around the term cybercommerce any longer; they are
far likelier to discuss e-commerce or e-currency.

Despite the rise of e- formations, e- has not made much of a dent in forming words that
relate to the more negative aspects of the Internet. Terms like cyberwar, cyberattack,
cybercrime, cyberterrorism, and cyberbullying are more prominent than ever. This may be due
to the clearer distinction offered by the term cyberwar versus a formation like e-war, which does
not offer the same clarity. News stories like the 2014 hacking of Sony (subsequently connected
to North Korea), the recent theft by cybercrooks of $1 billion from 30 different banks worldwide,
and cases of bullying/harassment over digital devices and social networks have only heightened
the attention paid to these terms.
 Given the rise in cybercrimes, it should come as a surprise to no one that CSI is jumping
on the boat, which may in fact only further elevate the negative connotations of cyber. While in
some cases, cyber may sound a bit old-fashioned, when associated with digital wrongdoings, it
sounds anything but irrelevant.

Early cyberbullying cases began to breed in 1998. When a middle-schooler created a

website dedicated in threatening and making derogatory statements about his school. Another
notable case is documented in 2003, when a boy received the earliest form of common
cyberbullying which included flaming and online harassment. Modern cyberbullying has took a
devastating effect nowadays as the targeted child has no escape from taunting and harassment
given with the advancement of the internet and mobile digital technology cyberbullies use, here
are the most common cyberbullying methods:

1
Flaming is a term describing an online passionate argument that frequently
includes profane or vulgar language that typically occur occurs in online chat rooms. Flaming
may have features of a normal message, but it contains a harmful intent to the victim.

2
Outing is a term that includes the public display, posting, or forwarding of personal
communication or images by the cyber bully personal to the target child. Outing becomes even
more detrimental to the target child when the communications posted and displayed publicly
contains sensitive personal information or images that are sexual in nature.

3
E-mail Threats and Dissemination: E-mail Threats and Dissemination is a cyber bully
tactic used to inspire fear in the target child and then informing other members in the peer group
of the alleged threat. The cyber bully sends a threatening e-mail to the target child and then
forwards or copy & pastes the threatening message to others of the implied threat.

4
Online Harassment: Online Harassment is sending hurtful messages to the target child
in a severe, persistent or pervasive manner causing the respondent undue concern. These
threatening messages are hurtful, frequent and very serious and may lead to lethal harm
emotionally for the victim.

5
Phishing: Phishing is a cyber bully tactic that requires tricking, persuading or
manipulating the target child into revealing personal and/or financial information about
themselves and/or their loved ones. Once the cyber bully acquires this information, they begin
to use the information to access their profiles if it may be the target childs password, purchasing
unauthorized items with the target childs or parents credit cards.

6
Impersonation: Impersonation is a tactic in cyber bullying can only occur with the veil
of anonymity offered by digital technology. Cyber bullies impersonate the target child and make
unpopular online comments on social networking sites and in chat rooms. Using impersonation,
cyber bullies set up websites that include vitriolic information leading to the target child being
ostracized or victimized in more classic bullying ways.

7
Images and Videos: the usage of images and video recording has become a growing
concern that many communities, law enforcement agencies and schools are taking seriously.
Due in part to the prevalence and accessibility of camera cell phones, photographs and videos
of the victim can be used to harass and blackmail the victim.

Like all forms of bullying, cyberbullying causes psychological, emotional and

physical stress. Each persons response to being bullied is unique, but research has shown
some general tendencies. For many cyberbullying affects their everyday lives and is a constant
source of distress and worry. With mobile technology being so freely available it is an ongoing
issue and one that is relentless. Not only does it go on after school, college or work has
finished, but it then carries through into the next day and the cycle continues. It has been well
documented that cyber bullying has resulted in tragic events including suicide, and self-harm
and clearly, more needs to be done in order to protect vulnerable children and adults from online
bullying.

Youth who are bullied have a higher risk of depression and anxiety. Symptoms may
include:

1
increased feelings of sadness and loneliness as they are prone to depression.

2
changes in sleep and eating patterns

3
loss of interest in activities

4
more health complaints.
 With these factors cyberbullying victims are more likely to struggle personally and at
school. They as they may:

1
miss, skip or drop out of school

2
receive poor grades

3
have lower self-esteem

4
use alcohol and drugs.

Bullying can lead to thoughts about suicide, sometimes persisting into adulthood. In one
study, adults who were bullied as youth were three times more likely to have suicidal thoughts or
inclinations. Cyberbullying has devastating results for some victims thats why anti-bullying laws
has been passed most notably the anti-cybercrime law of 2012 courtesy of Senator Tito Sotto
which requires districts to have strict policies about cyberbullying and punish cybercriminals.
Parents can help prevent cyberbullying by monitoring electric device and internet usage and
encourage discussion about online activities to facilitate communication.

Camarines Sur Rep. Rolando Andaya authored the bill entitled An act of defining and
penalizing the crime of cyber-bullying otherwise known as Anti-Cyber-Bullying Act of 2015
with the hope of encouraging people to become responsible netizens and making them
accountable for their "cyber-actions." Andaya defined cyber-bullying as acts of cruelty
committed using the internet or any form of electronic media or technology that has the effect of
stripping ones dignity or causing reasonable fear or physical or emotional harm. The
congressman also considered repeated sending of offensive, rude and insulting message,
distributing of belittling information about the victim, as a form of cyber-bullying. Even posting or
sending of offensive photos of the victim, whether digitally altered or not or were taken with or
without consent, as long as it has intention to humiliate and embarrass the victim is also cyber-
bullying according to Andaya.

Andaya also cited breaking into an email, social networking or any electronic account
and using the victims virtual identity to send, upload or distribute embarrassing materials to or
about others, sharing the victims personal information or any embarrassing information, or
tricking the victim into revealing personal or embarrassing information and sharing it to others
and repeated sending of messages such as threats or harm or engaging in online activities
causing fear on victims safety as cyber-bullying.

When a cyberbullying case contains harmful and alarming message it becomes a serious crime
and a victim should file a report with the local law enforcement depending if the victim is old
person is old enough to be charged under the federal law. As of 2014 53% of cyberbullying
cases has been resolved with cyberbullying criminals punished. With continuous efforts
authorities believe cyberbullying may finally come to an end.

CONCLUSION

In this topic for our research paper we used to gathered information using survey
forms, we used this survey forms to know the effects of cyberbullying for the students of ACLC
College specially the senior high school if they have knowledge about the given topic which is
EFFECTS OF CYBERBULLYING TO THE STUDENTS OF SECTION ABM 11-5 OF ACLC
COLLEGE OF TAYTAY SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL. With our survey we determined how
cyberbullying affected the students and to measure if they have enough knowledge about
Cyberbullying and how to prevent it.

Therefore, we conclude that most of the students of ABM 11-5 have a recent knowledge about
E-learning.