The word Bullying we have been hearing from our school time but now it has taken a more serious form which is Cyberbullying. The term Cyberbullying means using of internet or digital technology to harass, defame, intimidate or cause harm to someone. Now bullying moved to social networking sites like instagram, facebook, youtube, whatsapp, email etc. from our school class-rooms.
Unfortunately India doesn’t have any specific law to deal with Cuberbullying but The Ministry of Women and Child Development has introduced a distinct helpline complaint-mwcd@gov.in to report cyberbullying, online harassment, and cyber defamation, particularly against women and children.
Around 9.2% of 630 young people reviewed in the Delhi-National Capital Region had faced cyberbullying and half of them had not revealed it to instructors, parents or the online life organizations concerned, an ongoing report by Child Rights and You, a non-administrative association, found.
One out of four young people additionally revealed seeing a transformed picture or video of themselves, and half of them were not reported to the police, according to the study.
Helplessness rose with web use: 22.4% of respondents, matured 13-18 years, who utilized the web for longer than three hours daily were powerless against web based harassing, while up to 28% of respondents, who utilized the web for over four hours per day, confronted cyberbullying, finished up the examination titled Online Study and Internet Addiction, discharged on February 18.
(According to CRY study)
Cyberbullying is a Serious issue.
Because there is no any physical contact or infront abuse, cyberbullying can be much more damaging than customary types of harassing. Through web-based social networking and portable interchanges, tormenting can now conceivably be seen by the entirety of a kid's friends, family, and others. Accordingly, the humiliation, disgrace, and other progressively serious results of harassing can turn out to be significantly increasingly extreme.
Consider, for instance, if a secondary school understudy takes an unflattering image of a schoolmate and sends it to every last bit of her friends (through cell phone) with pernicious remarks. Suddenly, the target student is being teased by more than half of her classmates. So instead of one instance of bullying, it often takes on a life of its own.
Cyberbullying is a Crime-
Until the mid-2000s, there were no particular cyberbullying laws. In any case, officials have not been incognizant in regards to the expanding number of high-exposure episodes, remembering sad outcomes for specific cases (suicides and acts of mass violence, for example). Laws have jumped up in certain states, yet a considerable lot of these law frequently leave implementation in the hands of school authorities. In that capacity, cyberbullying may frequently be treated as a common, instead of a criminal issue.
