Summarize the four areas identified in the text as problems in cyberspace. What are these areas, how are they defined, and why are they problematic? What are your views on these areas? Should government enact more social controls, and if so, what types of controls, or do you consider these areas rights of passage? Support your position

What will be an ideal response?


• Cyberbullying is the willful and repeated harm inflicted through Internet social media sites such as Facebook, blogs, or microblogging applications such as Twitter.
• Cyberbullies are malicious aggressors who seek implicit or explicit pleasure or profit through the mistreatment of other individuals.
• It is difficult to get an accurate count of the number of teens who have experienced cyberbullying.
• Recent research found that more than 20% of the youth they surveyed reported being the target of cyberbullying.
• Adolescent girls are significantly more likely to have experienced cyberbullying in their lifetime than are boys; girls are also more likely to report cyberbullying others during their lifetime.
• The type of cyberbullying tends to differ by gender; girls are more likely to spread rumors while boys are more likely to post hurtful pictures.
• Cyberstalking refers to the use of the Internet, email, or other electronic communications devices to stalk another person.
• Some predatory adults pursue minors through online chat rooms, establish a relationship with the child, and later make contact.
• Today, Internet predators are more likely to meet and develop relationships with at-risk adolescents rather than use coercion and violence.
• Sexting is the distribution of sexually compromising material.
• A recent survey of 1,560 adolescent Internet users found:
o About 2.5% had appeared in or created nude or nearly nude pictures or videos
o 1% of these images contained sexually explicit nudity
o 7% said they had received nude or nearly nude images of others
• Few youth distributed these images, so it may be that sexting is not as common as previously believed or that it was a fad that is quickly fading.
• Catfishing refers to the practice of setting up a fictitious online profile, most often for the purpose of luring another into a fraudulent romantic relationship.
• The Urban Dictionary refers to a catfish as "someone who pretends to be someone they're not using Facebook or other social media.".
• To "catfish someone" is to set up a fake social media profile with the goal of duping that person into falling for the false persona.
• Student answers will vary.

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