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How Social Media Helped Humans in Discerning Information During the Pandemic

In these days, humans had encounter a lot of changes in this world. This pandemic had a new world, as what people called today, the New Normal. It changes the way people live, work, and study. This pandemic also causes loss of lives and a unhealthy community. This plague became a problem and a challenge for all the human being. Everything has affected even the communication, the education, and the sharing of information to people. Luckily, Social Media is there to help. With this, the impossible thing to do in this situation can be done with the assuredness that that person will not be in risk and its health will be stable.

How Pandemic Change the World?

Pandemic change the way people Live...

Pandemic change the way people live their lives. They can hardly go out because they need to follow the healthy protocol to reduce and stop the spread of the virus. If before people could go party all night, in this day it will not happen because it is prohibited, because it may cause easily transfer of the virus from one person to another. People can hardly get food and their incomes are also affected. Some people lost their business and works.

Pandemic change the way people work...

Pandemic affected the works of the humans. Some of them also lost their work. The income is lower than before. Before, people go to office to work but now they just sit in their houses and wait for their income. Workers that work outside like construction workers has stop working. Drivers also stopped because commuting is banned. Lots of people had problem about money especially those who stopped working at this time of pandemic.

Pandemic change the way people study...

Usually people go to school ot study, but now at this time, people only study at home. With the use of mobile devices, people will be able to attend classes. Even though, this change is a bit hard especially for the students who has a problem in understanding things. Studying in school is the best because the students can easily understand the lesson they are teaching, but now they need to study more in order for them to understand informations and lectures given by the school.

How Information and News are Being Shared at this Time?

Information this days are being shared to people by news reports on tv and in social medias like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and so on and so forth.

With the help of this applications and tools every poeple will be able to know information on what's happening in the world. People can browse in any social medias and search for informations that they wanna know. With this social media apps we don't need to go out and ask someone on what's happening, by looking only on our mobile phones or tv.

How People Without Mobile Phones or TV can Get the Information They Wanted?

Poeple with no television or mobile devices get information from their own barangays where their leader shares the information they got from the main.

What's the difference on sharing information these days from the past?

Information from the past...

Information from the past are shared through radio, Telivision, and print. People need to wait and watch on tv the information that will be given by the newscaster. Newspaper is also famous those times. People buy newspaper to know news about their society and the world. People who don't have Television uses radio to listen to news. People from the past can see news only through these things.

Information this days...

Information this days can be found on social medias. But, not all these things are true, so poeple should also consider if the information is coming from a reliable sites. Even though without television or radio, people can still know informations they wanna know with the help of this mobile applications and tools.

Thank you for the help of Social Media because people can get information and know what's happening in the world without going out. Social Media had been a great help for all.

"World may change, but Social Media can give us informations that humans wanted."

Note:

Even though social media helps us by giving us informations we also need to know and make sure if that information is true and coming from a reliable source.

"Don't believe everything you read on the Internet just because there's a picture with a quote next to it."

- Abraham Lincoln

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Bullying/Cyberbullying

Bullying are very common this days especially the Cyberbullying. Most young people focus on social media and it became their hanging sites to entertain themselves. But is it safe to be on social media? Are you really sure that no one will harm you?

So let's talk about the harassment you may encounter in social media. But first, let's know what is Bullying and Cyberbullying.

What is Bullying? What is Cyberbullying?

Bullying is the use of force, coercion, or threat, to abuse, aggressively dominate or intimidate. The behavior is often repeated and habitual. Cyberbullying or Cyberharassment also known as online bullying is a form of bullying or harassment using electronic means. It has become increasingly common among teenagers.

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Different types of Bullying:

Individual - tactics are perpetrated by a single person against a target or targets.

Physical - any bullying that hurts someone's body or damages their possessions.

Verbal - one of the common type of bullying. Any bullying that is conducted by speaking or other use of the voice and does not involve any physical contact.

Relational - type of bullying that uses relationship to hurt others.

Cyberbullying - the use of technology to harass, threaten, embarrass, or target another person.

Collective - tactics are employed by more than one individual against a target or targets.

Mobbing - refers to the bullying of an individual by a group, in any context, such as a family, peer group, school, workplace, neighborhood, community, or online.

Different types of Cyberbullying:

Exclusion - act of leaving someone out deliberately.

Harassment - sustained and constant pattern of hurtful or threatening online messages sent with the intention of doing harm to someone.

Outing/Doxing - act of openly revealing sensitive or personal information about someone without their consent for purposes of embarrassing or humiliating them.

Trickery - similar to outing, with an added element of deception. The bully will befriend their target and lure them into a false sense of security.

Cyberstalking - extend to threats of physical harm to the child being targeted.

Fraping - uses your child's social networking accounts to post inappropriate content with their name.

Masquerading - a bully creates a made up profile or identity online with the sole purpose of cyberbullying someone.

Dissing - refers to the act of a bully spreading cruel information about their target through public posts or private messages to either ruin their reputation or relationships with other people.

Trolling - a bully will seek out to intentionally upset others by posting inflammatory comments online.

Flaming - constitutes of posting about or directly sending insults and profanity to their target.

Video Shaming - using video to humiliate or harrass the victim.

Impersonation - pretending to be someone to lure some people

Inappropriate Photographs - posting nudes and inappropriate pictures of the victim to humiliate them.

Website Creation - creating website, blog, or poll to harrass another person.

Other subtle methods - subtweeting or vaguebooking can be used to bully and avoid detection.

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Causes and Effects of Cyberbullying:

Why do people bully someone?

A lack of empathy - technology enables people to distance themselves from situation even while they are in it. Cyberbullies cannot see the pain they cause and does cannot imagine the turmoil they put their victims through.

Because they feel the victim deserves it - when it comes to school children bullying others, it is often rooted in perception of status. Insecurities are a major factor in bullying and pupils often tried to put their peers down to feel superior. It's common for people to try and discredit or bully others based on a difference of opinion or a sense of superiority.

Boredom becomes pain - there's no denying that cyberbullies get a sort of kick out of targeting others online. After a while, it can almost become an addiction of sorts where they need a constant fix.

Self-loathing - studies have found that there is a strong connection between previous victims and current cyberbullies. Much like violence in real life, virtual bullying is a perpetuating cycle of anger. Therefore, the problem continues to cycle and gets worse each time.

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What is the effect of bullying someone?

Overwhelmed - being targeted by cyberbullies is crushing especially if a lot of kids are participating the bullying. It can feel at times like the entire world knows what is going on.

Powerless - victims of cyberbullying often find it difficult to feel safe. They feel vulnerable and powerless. This is because the bullying can invade your home through a computer or cellphone at any time of day. They no longer have a place where they can escape. To a victim, it feels like bullying is everywhere.

Humiliated - because cyberbullying occurs in cyberspace, online bullying feels permanent. Kids knowo that once something is out there, it will always be out there. They feel exposed.

Worthless - cyberbullying often attacks victims where they are most vulnerable. Targets of bullying me feel intense dissatisfaction with who they are. As a result, targets of cyberbullying often begin to doubt they're worth and value. They may respond to this feelings by harming themselves in some way.

Vengeful - sometimes victims of cyberbullying will get angry about what is happening to them. As a result, they plot revenge and engage in retaliation. This approach is dangerous because it keeps them locked in the bully-victim cycle. It always to better to forgive a bully than it is to get even.

Disinterested - when cyberbullying is ongoing, victims often relate to the world around them differently than others. For many, life can feel hopeless and meaningless. They lose interests in things they once enjoyed and spend last time interacting with family and friends. And, in some cases, depression and thoughts of suicide can set in.

Isolated - cyberbullying sometimes causes teens to be excluded and ostracized at school. The child may feel alone and isolated. This experience is particularly painful because friends are crucial at this age. When kids don't have friends, this can lead to more bullying.

Depressed - victims of cyberbullying often such succumb to anxiety, depression and other stress-related conditions. This occurs primarily because cyberbullying erodes their self-confidence and self-esteem.

Physically sick - when kids are cyberbullied, they often experience headaches, stomach aches, or other physical ailments. The stress of bullying also can cause stress-related conditions like stomach ulcers and skin conditions.

Suicidal - cyberbullying increases the risk of suicide. Kids that are constantly tormented by peers through text messages, instant messaging, social media, and other outlets, often begin to feel hopeless. They may even begin to feel like the only way to escape the pain is through suicide. As a result, they may fantasize about ending their life an order to escape their tormentors.

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How to prevent Cyberbullying?

Talk - every psychologist will tell you that the best way to help your child or student is to have a conversation first. Be patient and ask a child about the problem in general: what is cyberbullying, does she/he know someone who is being bullied, what children should do if notice acts of bullying. This way you will see how much your child is involved in situation and which side he)she is on.

Use celebrity card - modern children are the same as we used to be. They choose role models and follow them in every way. Now they choose singers, sportsmen and actors. Nowadays, a lot of celebrities are supporting cyberbullying victims. Many of them post numerous comments against online bullying on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.

Monitor online activity - cyberbullying has one advantage: you can notice it and save the evidence. If their phone away is not an option, you can install iPhone monitoring app Pumpic. It allows monitoring social media activity, including Facebook and Instagram, view all text messages (even deleted ones), call logs and general online behavior. You can block and control the child's phone remotely through PC or personal cell phone.

Engage parents and youth - create a community for adults and pupils to send a unified message against cyberbullying. Establishe a school safety committee that will control and discuss the problems of online bullying.

Build a positive climate - school staff can do a big deal to prevent cyber bullying. As a teacher you can use staff and parents meetings and even send newsletter. Use your school website to create a page and forum, where parents can discuss the problem.

Volunteer in the community - as a parent, you can prevent bullying by working in the community. With your experience on the ground, appropriate strategies can help identify the victims and redirect bullies' behavior.

Restore self respect - remember that the ultimate goal is to protect and restore the victim self-respect. Act thoroughly; fast decisions can only make things worse. Talk to someone about the problem before responding. Collect the evidence and join with parents or teachers to figure out the possible best choice to stop cyberbullying among children.

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Cyberbullying organization

EndCyberBullying.org (ETCB) - prevent cyberbullying through sharing the stories of victims and analyzing them, both the figure out how they were bullied and why this was hurtful.

StompOutBullying.org - offers the chance for cyberbullying victims to receive support virtually.

StopBullying.gov - unique features as the Bullying Prevention Training Center. Here, users have access to an online bully prevention course that will allow them to learn fundamental steps they can take to address cyber bullying issues and help victims.

Additional Online Resources - Study.com also has online courses on Anti-Bullying Training for Teachers and Bullying Prevention for Students that address cyberbullying and how to take action against it. This course also give information on recognizing bullying, coping strategies, and more.

Bullying can really affect everyone's life especially when that person is the one being targeted. We most prevent bullyin, don't spread hate, and we should share love. Cyberbullying can ruin someone's life even if it only happens on social media. Comments can kill and ruin a life of someone that's why we should think carefully before we act because we don't know that what we doing was ruining someone else's life. We can't bully someone because we want ourselves to be greater than them, remember:

"Pulling someone down will never help you reach the top."

So you must,

" Stop Cyberbullying, Quit spreading hate, Start sharing love." - Anonymous

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