Survey: Young Americans say that online bullying is a serious problem
Survey: Young Americans say that online bullying is a serious problem
Teens and young adults say that cyberbullying is a serious problem for people their age, but most do not believe they are the target of digital abuse.
According to a new poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research and MTV, which also finds that approximately half of young people and their parents consider social networks to have a mostly negative effect on younger generations.
Matty Nev Luby, 15, said he learned to navigate Instagram and other social media applications by putting anonymous stalkers aside.
"When I see a really bad comment about my appearance or something I did, if someone told me that online, it does not mean anything to me, but if I imagined someone I know saying that, I would be really upset," Luby said.
Approximately three-quarters of young people ages 15 to 26 say that bullying and online abuse are a serious problem for their peers. Seven percent of youth say they have already been victims of cyberbullying, and young women (11 percent) are more likely to say they were harassed than young men (3 percent).
"People will make fun of their clothes or their weight, of their options," said Luby, who lives in a suburb of Hartford, Connecticut, and has been venturing into social media since age 12.
Her popularity in the Musical.ly lip sync application, which was merged this summer in the Chinese TikTok video sharing application, helped her win some modeling contracts. Now he focuses mainly on Instagram, where he follows makeup artists and fashion trends.
His mother, Kerrylynn Mahoney, said she is impressed by her daughter's ability to keep bullies at bay.
"Your answers surprise me," said Mahoney. "She would have fists at her age." She says, "I'm sorry you feel that way, you should probably think more positively and then we'll have more peace on earth."
But she is also attentive to controlling her daughter's accounts, blocking followers that seem creepy or fake and trying to keep her from looking at pages that demean women.
"I have to keep her constantly on the ground," Mahoney said. "I'm grateful that she's aware that this is not real, it's our job as parents to bring them back."
The survey shows that most youth and their parents think that parents have a responsibility to help prevent bullying online.
The problem documented for a long time with online harassment is that it is relentless. It does not stop when children arrive home from school, safe in their homes, or even when they get away from their tormentors. However, like Luby, many young people tend to be more resistant to strangers trolling online.
"If they do not know who it is, it does not seem to bother them that much," said Justin Patchin, a professor of criminal justice at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire and co-director of the Center for Cyberbullying Research. "What worries them is when they're a child at school."
Patchin said that among adults, people who perpetuate bullying tend to be strangers, not people they know.
Leslie Hernandez, 39, said she believes the impact of social media on people her age has been mostly positive.
"Adults tend to stay away from the drama that is part of adolescence," said Hernandez, who lives in Tucson, Arizona. "It allows you to connect with people from your past."
According to the survey, she is in the minority. Among parents between 15 and 26 years of age, about a quarter, 23 percent, say that social networks have had a mostly positive effect on people their age, while 31 percent say it has been negative; 45 percent say it is neither positive nor negative. Among people aged 15 to 26, 47 percent say it has had a negative effect on their generation, and 26 percent say it has been a good thing, while another 26 percent think it is not. About half of the parents, 53 percent, agree that social networks have had a mostly negative effect on the generation of their children.
No matter their age, the vast majority say they see people who use discriminatory language or publish such images. Seventy-eight percent of people ages 15 to 26 say they see these messages sometimes or often, compared to 65 percent of their parents. Only 4 percent of young people and 10 percent of their parents say they never see discriminatory language or images.
Companies like Facebook And Twitter has tried for years to suppress abuse and harassment, with varying degrees of success. Both parents (72 percent) and young people (67 percent) think that companies play an important role in solving these problems.
Approximately two-thirds of parents also attribute responsibility to schools (68 percent), police (66 percent) and other users who witness behavior (61 percent).
Currently, young internet users report using Youtube (48 percent), Facebook (47 percent), Instagram (40 percent) and Snapchat (39 percent) several times a day or more. Less use of Twitter, Reddit, WhatsApp, Tumblr or LinkedIn with the same frequency. Parents who use the Internet are more likely to report using Facebook (53 percent) several times a day or more, and few are intensive users of other social networking sites.
Hernandez said he is "quite active" on Facebook, in part because of his work as a student housing manager at a university.
"Snapchat feels a little less personal to me," he said. "On Facebook, you can follow people and see what happens in their lives in a more permanent way, an image of Snapchat that people will forget, on Instagram, people can enjoy the images but they do not really see a whole. ). "
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Ortutay reported from San Francisco.
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The Youth Political Pulse survey was conducted from August 23 to September 10 by the AP-NORC Center and MTV. The survey was conducted using the AmeriSpeak panel based on the NORC probability, which is designed to be representative of the US population. UU It includes 580 young people between 15 and 26 years old and 591 parents in the same age group. The margin of sampling error for all young people is plus or minus 6.6 percentage points and for parents it is plus or minus 7.5 percentage points.
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This story has been corrected to show that the mother's name is Kerrylynn, not KellyLynn.
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