Melanie Romero

October 15th, 2015

RWS 1301
MWF 8:30a.m.
Professor Cruz
Annotated Bibliography
Research Q1: What are the effects of Cyberbullying on Instagram?
Cyberbullying Research Center. (2013). Cyberbullying on Instagram. Retrieved from:
www.cyberbullying.org/cyberbullying-on-instagram/
Instagram is a unique social media app. Bullies use Instagram to post embarrassing
pictures of people. If a person the bully does not like is their follower on Instagram, they can tag
them in pictures and put nasty captions. A person can comment on anyones pictures and be rude.
Bullies take advantage of the app to make fake accounts; they make hate accounts and take
peoples pictures to say horrible things. Cyberbullies make their hate accounts public for anyone
to see and request people they know to show the page. This article helps me understand what
bullies do and what the effects of cyberbullying are.
Gordon, S. (2014). 8 Ways kids are using Instagram to bully. Retrieved from:
www.bullying.about.com/od/Cyberbullying/fl/8-Ways-Kids-Are-Using-Instagran-to-Bully.htm
Instagram is a very popular app that many adolescents from ages 10-19+ use. Anybody
can have access to Instagram and post pictures. Cyberbullies love to hurt and embarrass people;
they find it a good feeling doing these actions. Videos of people they do not like can be uploaded
and shared with everybody. Friends can blackmail other friends who hurt them. Hashtags can

be posted under pictures and are exposed to the world. This really helps me see what effects of
cyberbullying have on Instagram by just looking up a hashtag.
Research Q2: What can be done to prevent Cyberbullying?
Cyberbullyhotline. (2013). Effective Cyberbullying prevention strategies. Retrieved from:
www.cyberbullyhotline.com/blog/effective-cyberbullying-prevention-strategies/
Cyberbullying today is hard to escape. Negative images, comments or videos have a
psychological damage on kids. You can block all communications and make hard copies to show
to the school. You can report anonymously to the website or report to a bully report system.
Contacting the police helps if you start to receive threats. If you see someone getting
cyberbullied, you need to take action and let someone know who can help with the situation. If
you do help, you could help that person who may not be helping themselves. This article helped
me understand what kids do to prevent further cyberbullying.
Connect Safely. (2013). Tips to Help Stop Cyberbullying. Retrieved from:
www.connectsafely.org/tips-to-help-stop-cyberbullying/
Kids and teens need to address that what happened to them was NOT their fault. Always
save evidence of anything else does happen. What bullies look for is a response, so the best thing
to do is not respond and ignore them. If the account you have is public it is better to make it
private and not share any passwords. If at any time the situation does get worse you tell someone
who can help. I can see what kids and teens can do to prevent any further altercations.
Zande, I. (2015). How to prevent and stop cyberbullying. Retrieved from:
www.kidpower.org/library/article/cyber-bullying/

The first thing a person needs to do is acknowledge what cyberbullying is. Cyberbullying
is using any kind of technology to embarrass, scare or hurt other people. Do not fight fire with
fire or you will get burned. Never put any personal information online such as: the name of your
school, what grade you may be in, your personal address or anybodys phone number. Know
what a bully is and to avoid being a bully. These ways really help me see how easy it is to
prevent cyberbullying.
Research Q3: How does Cyberbullying affect the victim?
Will, J. & Clayburn, C.(2012). The Psychological Impact of Cyberbullying. Retrieved from:
www.universitybusiness.com/article/psychological-impact-cyber-bullying
The victim is humiliated worldwide by cyberbullying. Social life is a joke to the bully
and they do not care if they ruin your social life. 61% of people revealed they have seen
cyberbullying on social media. Hate messages, polls and private emails forwarded are some
examples of what bullies do. 32% of people said they have experienced a form of cyberbullying
and did nothing about it. 75% of people were bullied online and of the people bullied, 85% had
also been bullied at school. For anyone online it is best to tell people who can help you if you see
bad things posted about you. This article opened my eyes on the statistic of cyberbullying and
what affects it has on the victim.
Palmeri, J. (2011). When Cyberbullying Victims Cant Escape. Retrieved from:
www.steinhardt.nyu.edu/appsych/opus/issues/2011/spring/cyberbullicide
About 40% of people were bullied online in 2010. That number has grown and is at 85%
for 2015. Cyberbullying is different from regular face-to-face bullying with cyberbullying it can
occur 24 hours and seven days a week. Anyone can have access to social media, so when bullies

use it they take advantage of every social media app they can get their hands on. With that they
can attack the victim from all social media apps they have. Cyberbullying makes the victim feel
lonely, have low self-esteem, have poor mental health, depression and hopelessness. This article
helps me understand the psychological effects of cyberbullying on adolescents.
American Osteopathic Association. (2015). Cyberbullying and its effect on our youth. Retrieved
from: http://www.osteopathic.org/osteopathic-health/about-your-health/health-conditionslibrary/general-health/Pages/cyber-bullying.aspx
Kids that are bullied are most likely to experience unhappiness, poor sleep, depression
and anxiety. 9 times out of 10, bullies victims conceal that they are being bullied. The kids are
embarrassed and/or afraid of any more bullying. Anxious and less confident in themselves is
what the kids start to portray themselves when they are bullied. They start to disconnect from
every aspect in their life and grades start to drop. If bulling gets left alone and nobody knows
about it, it can hurt the child in more mental and physical way. Parents can connect with their
child and create safe spaces for them. They can also talk to their child to see if anything is going
on. It is best for parents to be updated in their childs life to prevent any form of bulling. This
really helped me understand how kids feel and what starts to happen if the situation gets left
alone.
Psychalive. (2009). Emotional, Physical or cyber: Bullying hurts. Retrieved from:
www.psychalive.org/emotional-physical-or-cyber-bullying-hurts/
Everyday a new app gets created and added to the app store; which means an increase
access of cyberbullying. Since it is growing everyday, that means more kids and teens are to
more likely to experience anxiety and depression. Physical pain is more common than emotional
stress in people who are bullied. If the victim is bullied throughout high school it is said that it

will continue into their adult life and lead to substance abuse. Bullies keep bullying you if you
keep quiet and the pain gets worse each time. Kids and teens are vulnerable to cyberbullies
because they put themselves on social media. This article really interests me and shows me what
can happen in their adult life and current life if cyberbullying continues.

Research Q4: How many children are affected by cyberbullying?

No Bullying.(2015). Cyberbullying Statistics 2014. Retrieved from: www.nobullying.com/cyberbullying-statistics-2014/
In 2014 more than 25% of people said they were repeatedly bullied via the internet. 11%
of people had embarrassing pictures/videos posted on them and they reported them immediately.
1/10 of middle and high schoolers received threats from their bullies online. 95% of people have
seen others being bullied online and ignored the situation instead of helping out. Most of the
victims that are bullied never told their parents when they were cyberbullied. Suicide is the most
common thing to do when victims are cyberbullied. They feel lost and that nobody is there for
them that they take their own lives. This article really opened my eyes on how many people are
affected by cyberbullying.
Larid, S.(2012). Cyberbullying: Scourge of the Internet. Retrieved from:
www.mashable.com/2012/07/08/cyberbullying-infographic/#DRLkn_Pp6zq0
In 2012, 42% of people were cyberbullied over the past year. 7.5 million of Facebook
users were under the age of 13 and were more likely to cyberbully. 1 in 10 of those kids under
the age of 13 was bullied. 1 in 5 kids bullied online thought about suicide than to seek help from
others. In result 4,500 teens and kids killed themselves from being affected by cyberbullies. That
number sadly continues to grow each year and it is growing rapidly. Girls ages 10-14 suicide

rates rose up to 76% in 2012 due to being bullied online. Compared to teens ages 15-19 rose up
only 32%. This article made me realize that cyberbullying needs to be stopped and the statistics
helped me understand how many were affected in 2012.