The Impact of Cyberviolence on Individuals

Abstract

With the wider network coverage and higher penetration rate, many social problems emerge, such as cyberbullying. This paper explores how cyberbullying influences the short-term and long-term development of individuals through domestic and foreign literature reviews as well as interviews. The most apparent impact is that teenagers who have suffered from cyberbullying are prone to depression, sleep deprivation, and bad behaviors. For adults, in addition to negative emotions, cyberbullying also harms their jobs and future opportunities. Meanwhile, for adults and minors, cyberbullying has an impact on their interpersonal relationships and future development. To better solve cyberbullying and protect potential victims, this paper argues that the government is responsible for subdividing the degree and types of cyberbullying from the legal perspective, and then taking different punishments. Schools can implement medienbuildng, from which teenagers can foster their media literacy, acquire media knowledge, and master the skills of media. Besides, media content can be identified to judge the consequences of media behavior and control media behavior. All major platforms are obliged to recover the comments and reports of cyberbullying in time, and popularize the basic knowledge of network usage for every user before registering media accounts, such as in the form of videos or questions and answers.