Over
the last few years, the social networking has growing in popularity over the
world. It has become an integral part of human’s lives. According to the
eMarketer report, that is around one in four people worldwide will use social
network which is total 2.18 billion people [1]. Social media is a
worldwide connectivity media and it has made people’s lives easier, for
example, seeking a new job at home through the internet, real-time information
sharing, free advertising, keep in touch with other people, and so on. However,
by over use of social network can also has its downside. In recent years, studies show that there are 5.43 million children in British have
experienced cyberbullying which is 70 percent of the young people [2].
Therefore, to prevent the increasing of cyberbullying and crimes cases against
young people, two solutions are recommended: to restrict social media access
for the whole country people and to give mass education to the people since
they were young.
The
cases of cyberbullying and crimes against young people has become more and more
serious in recent years. The Pew Research Center states that 27 percent of
teens aged 11 to 16 have encountered cyberbullying once a month and 3 percent
being cyberbullying every day [3]. Cyberbullying is almost same as the school
yard bullying and it was defined as people use electronic communication to bully a person. Nowadays, many teenagers use social media like Facebook,
Twitter, Wechat, and Whatsapp to bully other teenagers. Some of them use social
media to scam money. Cyberbullying could have a negative impact on the
children. It could bring children childhood shadow which cause the children
become autistic and keep away from people. For example, Tyler Clementi freshman
of Rutgers University who has committed suicide after his roommate spy on a
same-sex encounter by used a webcam. His roommate posted the video about his
behavior on Twitter [4]. In additional, Phoebe Prince has been bully
by her classmate at school and followed her home with Facebook. She also
received some bullying massages from social media and called name such as
“whore” and “Irish slut”. After that Prince has hanged herself at home [5].
Therefore, the problem of cyberbullying
must be cure.
One
of the solutions to reduce cases of cyberbullying is blocking the social media.
The government should restrict the social media access of young people.
Therefore, these teenagers have no any platform to cyberbullying other people
at anytime and anywhere. Some teenagers like to follow other people behaviors,
they has copied other’s behaviors from social media such as YOUTUBE. By
blocking social media, teenagers will not learnt those bad behaviors from
social media and become criminals. There are some countries have blocked
Twitter, Facebook and YouTube which are North Korea, Iran, China, Pakistan, and
Turkey. Although this method can stop people cyberbullying, the school yard
bully cases still exits.
Furthermore,
another method to prevent cyberbullying is to enforce compulsory education.
Since early beginning of the school, children have the chances to learn the
right way to use social media and to be trained with the abilities of prevent
from cyberbullying. There are some skills to stop cyberbullying, for example,
look for signs of harassment, stop respond to the bully criminal, and block the
person who was bullying. With these skills, children able to prevent themselves
be the victims of the cyberbullying. Besides that, school should teach student
how to respond when they were bullied. For example, they should save evidences
and looking for helps from teacher or family. Therefore, the helper could
reports the bully to the social media service providers. In additional, school
must pay attention of teaching moral. Many of people think that moral is a
useless and not important subject. From the beginning to the end, immoral was
the key of every crime happened. If the person with moral, he would not do any
actions will that hurt other person. Education is very important, it trained
children able to distinguish right from wrong.
In
conclusion, the social media not only make human’s lives easier but it provides
the platform for the criminal to crime at anytime and anywhere. It is very
important to against this problem. By blocking social media and the development
of the education are the solutions to reduce or prevent cyberbullying and
crime.
