Role of Teaching Community in Prevention of Cyber Bullying and Cyber Crime among Adolescents

Social networking on the Internet started with a desire among the people to quickly share information with their friends and familyconveniently. This form of communication rapidly gained popularity and started giving immense competition to e-mail and text messaging. One of the most recent developments in society that took the world by storm was the emergence of internet culture and with its emergence it is continuously changing the mind-set of the people of our society. This progress is commonly referred to as technological determinism. Technological determinism is the idea that, “new technologies set the conditions for social change and progress” (Miller, 2011). With so many teens using social networking, a new concept of cyber bullying has started. It is a type of bullying that is done through the medium of internet in which adults post such comments about one another that can prove very harmful or endanger ones reputation in personal as well as social life. Social networks have started displaying their darker side too. Bullying is very difficult to tolerate and when criticizing comments are posted on individuals account it can be accessed by all and that persons reputation in the society suffers great setback. This kind of social criticism can prove to be very harmful for the individual in the long run. It can even upset the mental balance of an individual and seriously distort his personality make-up as well as his self-confidence. But with no proper watchdogs on cyber exposure it is the obligation on the part of the teachers and the parents to create awareness among the adolescent students using the Internet and cyber media to decide what is right or wrong to prevent moral turpitude among teenagers of the country. Social Media is here to stay and it is the moral responsibility of the teachers to see that young generation is not deviated from its path and it plays significant role in the upliftment of the society and our nation as a whole.