Digital Citizenship
Digital Citizenship
Many people nowadays are interacting with digital content across the world wide web, and that's where digital citizenship becomes very important. Digital citizenship is basically when a person becomes a member of the digital community. As being a digital citizen, the concept of respect has to be taken into consideration, and they should show digital etiquette and wellness while remembering to be aware of cyberbullying and their safety on the web. People should be careful of their habits, actions, and be mindful of their impact on the digital community.
Cyberbullying is the use of electronic communication of any kind to bully someone. The most used type of electronic communication is social media. Nowadays, social media is an integral part of a person’s life. According to mobilestatistics.com, their research has shown that an average person spends approximately 3.9 years of their life on social media and because of that, there are many victims of cyberbullying through social media. As it is a huge issue, people should learn how to defend themselves from cyberbullies.
Firstly, to learn how to prevent cyberbullying people should know what it is. Researching what it is where it all starts. After people understand what cyberbullying is, they should talk to their friends and spread a word about it and raise awareness by creating clubs, making campaigns and much more. Creating clubs will be beneficial because even though you understand it, that does not mean that people around you know what cyberbullying means. Clubs will help people know what cyberbullying is and it will encourage a digital citizen to be an upstander. An upstander is someone who stands up for cyberbullying. If people stand up for it, then there wouldn’t be any cyberbullying. To be more careful on the web, do not share your personal information and your password with anyone because this will increases the chances to be more secure on the web. If you share your password with another person, they may post something using your account, and because of that, the people will directly change the view of you.
Firstly, to learn how to prevent cyberbullying people should know what it is. Researching what it is where it all starts. After people understand what cyberbullying is, they should talk to their friends and spread a word about it and raise awareness by creating clubs, making campaigns and much more. Creating clubs will be beneficial because even though you understand it, that does not mean that people around you know what cyberbullying means. Clubs will help people know what cyberbullying is and it will encourage a digital citizen to be an upstander. An upstander is someone who stands up for cyberbullying. If people stand up for it, then there wouldn’t be any cyberbullying. To be more careful on the web, do not share your personal information and your password with anyone because this will increases the chances to be more secure on the web. If you share your password with another person, they may post something using your account, and because of that, the people will directly change the view of you.
“Your thoughts become your words, your words become your actions, and your actions become your habit.” When people know about cyberbullying digital wellness, and digital etiquette automatically plays a role. Before posting something on the web, people should read again about what they are posting. If it is appropriate for the audience, then they should post. It will maintain digital wellness and digital etiquette and all links with each other. So it is important to have digital wellness and etiquette standing against cyberbullying.
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