Cyberbullying and Its Impacts on Self-Loathing Behavior

Abstract

This article exposes cyberbullying and its wider impacts on self-loathing behavior. The internet and the advancement of information technology shape the rising of social media to communicate and socialize among young people. However, technology or especially social media brings both negative effects of cyberbullying besides further positive impacts. Cyberbullying can have psychological impacts on victims and abusers of bullying such as health problems, depression, anxiety, loss of self-confidence, and even victims can hate themselves in matter of self-loathing. Then, how may cyberbullying contribute to behavior of self-loathing? Through qualitative method, this paper underlines any hate targeted to the victims may shape such self-hate to them. By putting the focuses on the victims, anticipations could be done by exploring bullying as hate speech that may affect self-esteem of anyone in digital realm. In conclusion, cyberbullying does exist and it shows how any victim of it could get bad impact of being hated that is closely related to idea of self- loathing.
Keywords: Cyberbullying, Digital Activism, Self-Loathing