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Writer's pictureKasundi Heshara Weerasinghe

Cyberbullying : What teenagers want to know about cyberbullying ?

What does mean cyberbullying with the use of digital technology?

It can be take place on social media, messaging platforms, gaming apps and mobile phones. Face-to-face bullying and cyberbullying can often happen alongside each other. But cyberbullying leaves a digital footprint – a record that can prove useful and provide evidence to help stop the abuse. Mostly, this repeated behavior, aimed at scaring someone, angering or revenge towards someone else. some of them are,

  • spending lies about posting your photos or vedios on social media.

  • sending hurtful, abusive messages and via chatting platforms.

  • Impersonating someone and sending mean messages to others.


How to understand the difference between jokes and bullying?

In our, daily lifestyle friends are joke with each other, but sometimes it's hard to tell if someone is just having fun or trying to hurt you. It will turning up to bullying you. continusly even you're asked the person to stop and you are still felling upset. and when the bullying takes place online, it can be result in unwanted attention from a wide range of people. however, it may happen if you are not happy about it.


What are the main effects of cyberbullying ?

when bullying happens to someone through online or physical. It can feel as you're being attacked everywhere, even you are at the home, there are not any specific space for it, sometimes the effects can be long time and it differs person to person.

  • Mentality-feeling upset, embaressed and sad.

  • Emotionally-feeling ashamed, losing interests of things.

  • Physically- loss of sleep and headaches.

How can cyberbullying affect my mental health?

  • cyberbullying you might feeling stupid, nervous and insecure about people say about you. your motivation to do things that you usually enjoy during during from the people and trust. this can be adversely affect for well - being. for examples, bullying text messaging through imagers and vedios has very harmful for teenagers.

What are the best ways to prevent from cyberbullying?

More time spent online increases our expose to cyberbullying, which is the act of bullying another person. thankfully, these days social media platforms have different ways to protect yourself, as examples.

  • Manage privacy setting online.

  • Keep clear records.

  • protect your passwords.

  • reporting cyberbullying to site setting.















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