Let’s see how the BYSTANDER effect works online, shall we??? From the Front Page Sections, translated…
The events leading up to the actress, Yo-Ying Yang’s death had sparked the public’s interests on the ethics of online interactions. The professor, Hu, from the General Broadcasting Graduate School of the Teacher’s University stated, that anybody at anytime, if s/he noticed bullying online, one should speak UP and OUT to prevent it from exacerbating further, “Those silent bystanders are also accomplices of cyberbullying”, everybody needs to work hand-in-hand, to protect the civilized ways as well as the ethics of interactions that occur online.
Ten Percent of the Victims Thought about Suicide
The Child Welfare Organization pointed out that based off of the surveys done back in 2012, forty-percent of children had once given kudos, or left comments on someone else’s trash talk of others, and, nearly twenty percent of the children had anonymously criticized or called someone a bad name online, and, twelve percent of children are victims of cyberbullying, and, of these, about ten percent of the individuals had shown signs of suicide, clearly, you CAN see, that the damages of cyberbullying is just as awful compared to being physically bullied.
A long-term operator of PTT, Jing-Hong Wang said, that dealing with cyberbullying, one shouldn’t run from the attacks, that one must swiftly, actively, and seriously explain one’s perspective, “Don’t reply to those who talked trash about you, instead, allow the others who see you, get a chance to believe in your points of view.”, Hu also advise those who were victimized by cyberbullying to NOT retreat, to NOT trash-talk back, but to FACE the attackers straight on, to PREVENT further personal attacks.
The professor, Ching, from Politics University’s education department suggested that the victims leave a message to show her/his point of views, if the statements made about her/him were true, then, one will accept and take it in, but if it’s false, then, one will go through the needed measures, pursue it in court. If the victim is too furious, he’d suggested that the victim should shut down her/his Facebook account, to not log on to read the related messages, or to ask the website to stop providing means for the criticisms.
And, this may work well, JUST like, “just ignore them”, but, how CAN you? Ignore those TRASH talks, especially when the TRASH talks can easily flow into the eyes and ears of those whose opinions matter to you the most, your loved ones?
Fierce Searching for the Individual Will Make the Participants into Accomplices
What should the parents do, when the children are being cyberbullied? The Child Welfare League suggested that parents could use the parental software, to set up the hours and the webpages that those younger children can be allowed to see; the parents must also educate the young on the seriousness of the power of words of cyberbullying, to help the children gain more empathy.
Yo-Ying Yang’s incident had gotten the people’s attention. And now, the Child Welfare League worried, that if the online community started a war against bullies, but the public didn’t get anything from the incident, instead, they’d hurried, to search for who’s responsible, “then, more and more will fall victim, of cyberbullying, unknowingly.”
Because someone DIED from being bullied online, that, is why this is the IT news for the day, and, because we ALL relied on the feedbacks of others, to understand WHO we are, and so, it would be, really hard, to ignore ALL those TRASH talks about us, especially IF and WHEN you’re a public figure like the woman who’d committed suicide, and this still raises that HUGE red flag, of concerns in the areas of bullying online.