Who Are The Targets?

    Victims of bullying may suffer long-term consequences that can affect their physical, mental, psychological, and emotional health. People of all ages, color, religious, and background has the potential of becoming a target of a bully.

 

  You can be considered as a target if you obtain these following characteristics:

•  Low self-esteem/confidence
• Submissiveness
• Fearfulness
• Appearance of being depressed
• Poor social skills
• No friends, or not many
• Physically different
• Culturally different
• Envied by the bully

Cyber Bullying

   Text messaging, Twitter, Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram, and other social media sites has been labeled as an important factor according to the increase of usage and its availability among us as students and our school environment. These social media sites are often used as a way of cyber bullying.  
      

   The use of social media is more utilized by teenagers, and it isn't always intended for good usage as it should be. Social media has been used more frequently for bullying, and being that is nationwide, the bully gains audience from everywhere while the victim gets humiliated in front of millions of unknown individuals. 

Characteristics of a Bully

      The behavior of bullies has the possibility of being cultivated due to their relationships with their family members (mainly parents), teachers and their peers. There are many ways for a bully to make others feel less of themselves, including the use of physical, verbal, social, aggression.
 

   Bullies tend to have different characteristics including the following:

• Feeling the need to control others
• Can be very impulsive  
• Has the pleasure of seeing someone in distress
• Blaming the target for their actions
• Feeling of being superior than others
• Lack of empathy