Social media sites, youtube comment sections and even at school, bullying is a problem for everyday individuals. Right now, it’s slowly becoming quite a problem in today’s generation. People are slowly becoming more and denser on the matter and those who are the target usually often time become bullies themselves. A sad yet real fact that not all people know. With this, though, let’s take a closer look at the cycle of bullies and bullied and learn how a bullied individual becomes a bully himself/herself.
Almost everyone in the country has internet access. We’re used to younger people knowing more about the internet than us and we’ve encountered toddlers that sound like experts in the field of IT, with all their knowledge of the web space. With that, though, the cycle begins as soon as one knows how to use the internet. Their exposure to the internet will inevitably lead them to various social media sites and will slowly become a thing that they’ll check on a daily basis.
The next step is for individuals to find a certain peer they would join in. A stage similar to normal everyday school life, in which this is where the time you search for friends, a group of friends, or random people that you’ll hang out most of the time. Mostly if the kids are using social media as a tool to connect over to their real life friends after school, this is the place where there all gonna meet and hang out. Classes often time create section school groups in which they’d become more attached to their classmate. This is where the bullying usually happens and where things slowly become a bad place to visit.
After going through this particular stage, bullies and bullied individuals are going to be introduced. Remember that this is applicable as well to group pages, so that only that this might happen to class section group pages, but could also happen to normal interest pages, like anime pages, game pages and whatnot, wherein the bully would be expected to annually bully the bullied. This is where we determine the two key players of the stages and how the bullied would turn out in the end.
In this types of communities, the bullies are somewhat those who are the popular ones in the group or the well-sought after. With their charisma, they can influence others to focus their undivided attention towards a, particularly bullied individual. This stage is where the bully turns bullies and things go out of the bullied’s way. A sad and harsh stage that would lead to various more stages, but most likely one particular stage.
In this stage, the bully learns to become more acceptance of their faith in the group and despite not exactly liking their situation, would simply endure since either the community is important to them or the bullied is somewhat tied towards the community he/she is under. The bullying will continue from here on out and the person would likely be bullied for a while until a new bullied will be established.
When a new “bullied” is established, it is expected for everyone to ship their attention towards the new guy. At this point on, the former bullied is expected to transition over from bullied to bully themselves, so that they’ll be able to continue being part of the group. Social media bullying will continue onward and the cycle will rewrite itself.
We should all be aware that the cycle wouldn’t end, for as long as there are bullies and bullied. However, we ourselves can stop bullies from bullying someone and break the cycle. Social media is a huge place for everyone and everyone deserves the right to make friends and be part of a community that they like. If individuals would simply try to communicate rather than compliment their own ego, the bullied themselves won’t become bullies and the cycle as a whole would end there and then.
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