Topic > Negative Effects of Technology on Human Relationships

Due to today's technology, cyberbullying has become one of the most problematic issues in our society. Cyberbullying occurs in schools, on social media and through cell phones. Individuals think that bullying is good to do to feel good inside. Bullies feel they must have power in order for people to respect them. Over 80% of adolescents use the phone most of the time, making it the most popular technology and a typical medium for cyberbullying (Laird, 2014). Individuals who have been victims of bullying will feel isolated, weak, unpleasant, sad or even go into depression. All this will lead to suicide, which has already happened before as Ryan Halligan. Ryan had a speech impediment growing up in school. He only had one friend to whom he confided his secret very well. Ryan shared his humiliating story about his disorder to his friend who was a girl. After all, she turned out to be a bully and used her story to create a rumor. The bully begins gossiping to the others about Ryan being gay. Ryan thought he had befriended a young woman via AOL Instant Messenger (AIM). Eventually, he discovered that the young woman and her friends thought it was fun to make Ryan think the young woman liked him and use it to get him to share more humiliating stories. Their message was duplicated and sent to AIM operations with his friends where everyone could see it. After