The Essay Final Darft

In recent years, social networking has been rapidly growing in popularity over the world. It has become an integral part of human life. According to the eMarketer (2003) report, there are around one in four people worldwide has use social network which is in total of 2.18 billion people. 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, keeping in touch with other people, and so on. However, with over use of social networking also had its downside. In recent years, studies show that there are 5.43 million children in United Kingdom who have experienced cyberbullying which is 70 percent of the young people (Jenny, 2014). Therefore, to prevent the increasing of cyberbullying and crimes cases against young people, two solutions are recommended: to restrict social media access for the United Kingdom’s whole country people and to educate children the right way of using social networking.  

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 (AMANDA, 2010).   Cyberbullying is almost same as the school yard bullying and it is defined as people using 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 childhood shadow which cause children to become autistic and keep away from people. For example, Tyler Clementi who was a freshman of Rutgers University committed suicide after his roommate spied on a same-sex encounter by using a webcam. His roommate posted the video about his behavior on Twitter (The New York Times, 2012). In additional, Phoebe Prince was bullied by her classmate at school and followed her home via her personal information on Facebook. She also received some bullying massages from social media and she has been called named such as “whore” and “Irish slut”. After that Prince has hang herself at home (Helen, 2010).  Therefore, the problem of cyberbullying must be solved.

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 ways to cyberbully other people. Some teenagers like to follow other people’s behavior and they has copying other’s behavior from social media such as YOUTUBE. Therefore by blocking social media, teenagers could have lesser exposure to those inappropriate behaviors from social media and become criminals. For example there are some countries were blocked Twitter, Facebook and YouTube which are North Korea, Iran, China, Pakistan, and Turkey. However this method can stop people cyberbullying, the school yard bully cases still exits.

Furthermore, another method to prevent cyberbullying is to enforce compulsory education. With the early beginning in the school, children have the chance to learn the right way to use social media and to be trained with the abilities of protect themselves from cyberbullying. There are some skills to stop cyberbullying, for example, looking for signs of harassment, stopping respond to the bully criminal, and blocking the person who was bullying. With these skills, children will able to prevent themselves being the victims of the cyberbullying. Besides that, school should teach student how to respond when they were bullied. For example, they should save evidence and look for help from the teacher or their family. Therefore, the helper could reported the bully to the social media service providers. In additional, the school must pay attention on teaching morals. Many of people think that morals is a useless and not important subject. However, immorality is the key for every crime to be happened. If the person is ethics, he would not do something to hurt other people. Therefore, education is very important since it trains children to be able to distinguish right from wrong.

In conclusion, social media not only make human’s lives easier but it has provides the platform for the criminal to be able to crime at anytime and anywhere. It is very important to solve this problem. Therefore, blocking social media and the development of the education are the solutions to reduce or to prevent cyberbullying and crime.

References

eMarketer (2013). Social Networking Reaches Nearly One in the Four around the world, 18 June 2013. Retrieved from http://www.emarketer.com/Article/Social-Networking-Reaches-Nearly-One-Four-Around-World/1009976

Jenny Q. Ta (2014). What Impact Has Social Media Truly Had On Society, 13 August 2014. Retrieved from http://www.business2community.com/social-media/impact-social-media-truly-society-0974685#MZzER5Pfchx3tHla.99

AMANDA LENHART (2010). Cyberbullying 2010: What the Research Tells Us, 6 May 2010. Retrieved from http://www.pewinternet.org/2010/05/06/cyberbullying-2010-what-the-research-tells-us/

The New York Times (2012). Tyler Clementi, 16 March 2012. Retrieved fromhttp://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/c/tyler_clementi/index.html

HELEN KENNEDY (2010), Phoebe Prince, South Hadley High School's 'new girl,' driven to suicide by teenage cyber bullies, 29 March 2010. Retrieved fromhttp://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/phoebe-prince-south-hadley-high-school-new-girl-driven-suicide-teenage-cyber-bullies-article-1.165911