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The key to prevent cyberbullying would start with informing the younger generation of it and punishing them for their actions. There should also be more resources in schools that can help a victim. For example, there seem to be more resources for college students where cyberbullying is less prevalent than there are for students in first through twelfth grade.

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Tyler Conlon who is residential hall director and Natalie Schmitz who works at the student rights and responsibilities office of the dean of students for Northern Arizona University both stated that cyberbullying is not prevalent among college students and that there have been very few cases reported. However if you do ever find yourself being cyberbullied they listed several resources such as NAU Counselling, Victim Witness Services, and the Health Promotion Department.

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SURVEY

In order to get the best possible results for our study, we made a survey as well as conducted two interviews. The target population for this study was not only people who have experienced and/or witnessed cyberbullying but specifically those who are college students or 18 years old and older. The total respondents was a sum of 53 people.

Results:

73.54% Have not Been Cyberbullied

67% Thought Universities were doing enough to combat Cyberbullying

59.42% Thought cyberbullying derived from insecurity

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Another issue that interferes with school administration to resolve the issue for cyber bullying is the First Amendment. The school board must carefully discipline against the free speech of teens while also resolving the issue. The recommendations for the quest in preventing cyberbullying are attentive observation of teens and their use of social media as well as carefully resolving methods without overstepping the rights of people.

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A decrease or increase of using their cell phone can be a potential tell in whether or not your child is participating in cyberbullying or being affected by it. If you notice that your child is off of their phone than their usual amount of time, it is possible that they may be experiencing trouble online. If you notice that they are on their phone more often than usual and exhibiting strong emotional responses such as laughing or signs of anger they may (but not always) be involved in cyberbullying.

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Some more external factors/motivators are the victims being different from the rest of society, offenders not having consequences, and not having a face to face encounter with the victim leading to no empathy or sympathy to be felt, or the perpetrators feeling of power when seeing others partake in cyberbullying.

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A study involving teens from ages 15-19 showed that  motivations for cyberbullying were internal like boredom, trying to be someone new, jealousy, projecting one's internal problems onto another, or insecurity

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Rates of Cyber bullying among social media platforms:

Instagram: 42%

Facebook: 37%

Snapchat: 31%

Youtube: 29%

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Cyberbullying is known to cause depression, school truancy and even suicidal tendencies(Vazsonyi, 2012). These effects are extremely detrimental to the mental health of adolescents and can cause long term problems.

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About 5% to 35% of social media users are perpetrators of cyberbullying (Cappadocia, 2013). This proves to be an interesting statistic considering how the perpetration rates are substantially lower than victimization rates.

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Reports explain that on average victimization rates vary between 20% and 40% of all teens that use social media (Cappadocia, 2013). Can you believe this? It seems like everyone experiences cyberbullying when they are an adolescents. 

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Experts contend that cyberbullying is actually more harmful than its counterpart, traditional bullying. This is mostly due to the public nature of being online where many people can see the bullying done and even participate. It is also more dangerous because of the fact that with a mobile phone anyone can be contacted at anytime and anywhere.

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According to the Merriam Webster Dictionary cyberbullying is defined as “the use of electronic communication to bully a person, typically by sending messages of an intimidating or threatening nature”(1998)