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Teens addicted to social media more likely to cyberbully study says

4/1/2021

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Science Daily reports on new research that has just come out of The University of Georgia that shows increased screen time with male adolescents leads to potentially more cyberbullying behaviors.

According to the article, "Cyberbullying can take on many forms, including personal attacks, harassment or discriminatory behavior, spreading defamatory information, misrepresenting oneself online, spreading private information, social exclusion and cyberstalking."

With Cyberslammed, we already know that this results in the tactics of Digital Pile-ons (harassment or discriminatory behavior) and Imposter Profiles (misrepresenting oneself online) to name a few.

Anonymity is driver

A key finding to a cyberbully's motivation is all about evading consequences "Oftentimes, they are more aggressive or critical on social media because of the anonymity they have online and their ability to avoid retaliation," said Amanda Giordano, principal investigator of the study and associate professor in the UGA Mary Frances Early College of Education.

Social media addiction=dopamine hit

Like all addicitons, the little switch in the brain that turns on when there is a reward also fuels cyberbullying.

"Social networking sites are designed to give people a dopamine hit, Giordano added, and some people compulsively look for that hit. "It's feeding into that addictive behavior, and they may be using cyberbullying as a way to get likes, shares, comments and retweets," she said.

Read the full article here.


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