Problem-Solution Social Media Bullying Among Students
The problem-solution essay is a 4-5 page persuasive essay that asks writers to define a topical problem and present a reasonable solution. The assignment calls for 5 credible sources.
You want to find a clear problem that is researchable. It's fine to choose a popular issue, but try to create your own focus.
(For example, you could make it a campus-specific problem). You are not going to be able to solve the entire problem of unhealthy school lunches, for example, but perhaps you can address some specific examples that are symptoms of the larger issue.
Be sure to offer a clear thesis, remembering that this is an essay, not just a list of random evidence. Be sure to clearly and thoroughly present the problem (reaffirm or convince that it is a problem). You want to then develop clear and logical reasoning as well as sufficient and reliable evidence to support your solution(s).
Again, consider the limited space of the essay and time of the presentation. With the school lunch program, you could offer one or two programs that have been working. You may want to address a particular audience rather than a general one (Culinary College, etc.)
Be sure to follow the MLA guide for style concerns and to completely and properly give credit to the sources that you use with in-text citations and a Works Cited page.
The recent years have shown dramatic increase of social media use. Social media are digital platforms that allow users to interact with one another through creating and sharing content through the cyberspace. Not all of this content is good, some of it could be harmful or even damaging to someone, which can be used for bullying. Bullying by definition is an aggressive behavior with the intent of overpowering the victim. Now that bullying has been taken to the social media space, this has become a problem, because social media bullying could leave longer or even permanent damage to the victim’s morale. However, the problem could be remedied through a three-pronged approach: first, performing basic social media options available for the bullied in order to stop the bully. Second, is education on digital citizenship responsibilities. Last, but not least is to cultivate youth resilience against bullying through peer facilitation.
Anyone could fall victim to social media bullying. For the purpose of this paper, we would confine this to social media bullying among students. This was more harmful than physical bullying due to several factors. First was the speed at which negative contents could reach a large number of audiences, as this was done through social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc. What could make this worse was the factor of familiarity of the bullied to their bullies, which could aggravate humiliation. Last, but not least was that these negative contents were preserved in the cyberspace through digital sharing, liking, etc., re-inflicting the same damage over and over again for the bullied.
In the most recent 2018 study on social media bullying in the US, out of the 5,700 middle and high-schoolers of nationally representative samples, 33.8% had been bullied in the social media during their lifetime, while 16.9% were bullied in the social media in the past 30 days. The 11.5% admitted having bullied others during their lifetime, and 6% had done so in the last 30 days (Hinduja & Patchin 3). These were alarming numbers of social media bullying because more and more students were utilizing the social media interactivity. In the US, 95% of students were online and had access to their mobile Internet (Hinduja & Patchin 4). Based on these numbers, it is no wonder that students were susceptible into falling victims to social media bullying or even became bullies themselves, as being online would make feel one anonymous, having little chance of being detected or identified. It continued to persist because the bullies were thinking that they were doing it for fun. They were doing this because they could, and the poor victims could only cower in the corner and cry. Another reason this persisted was that the bullied themselves were not standing up for themselves against these bullies. This was why an understanding adult supervision was needed for the bullied to cope up with his or her situation. If not solved, social media bullying could diminish a student’s self-worth, as the negative contents posted online against him or her already condemned him or her into being an outcast by “society.” Nobody wants to feel an outcast, as it could rule negatively in the victim’s life (Hinduja, “Cyber Bullying Summary”). This could result to losing morale, isolation, self-pity, or even self harm. There were even cases of suicide due to social media bullying,
In line with the prevention of social media bullying among students, three solutions were proposed. The first one was for the bullied to perform basic social media options available in order to stop the bully from bothering him or her. In the same study by Hinduja and Patchin, out of the 5,700 students surveyed, 1,300 detailed what they did to stop the behaviors of their bullies. 30.7% responded that blocking the bully online worked for them. A 16-year old blocked the person from Twitter and even threatened to report the bully, so they stopped. Another teen from New Jersey did the same, even deleting all bullying comments, messages, etc. and talking to a friend about it. She ...