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The Dark Side of Social Media: Navigating Cyberbullying and Privacy Concerns

Recently, one of the types of communication, which is engaging to people and implemented in practice, is social networking; at the same time, several hazards are associated with such things as cyberbullying and the violation of clients’ personal data. Another form of aggression that is prevalent in the society, which is in according to N ansiuma’s meaning of bullying as the process in which individuals exploit the virtual social realm to bully others is cyber bullying which affects everyone including the children. It has heinous effects in as much as it is concerned with mental health since victims are left emotionally strangled, anxious, and depressed. The social media setup allows the bullies to perform their acts without being arrested because the targets cannot arrest them. Secondly, the issue of privacy remains one of the key concerns which are challenging to solve in the context of the sphere of the internet space. People write their data with social networks, and barely can imagine any negative scenario like robbery or a hack. A lot of applications in the ten social media focus on collecting data; there are questions as to its use or availability. In order to counteract these effects, the users should perhaps try the following actions, including changing the settings and options, not posting anything, or post only good things about the social network users.

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