"Kinds of Bullying & Cyberbullying"

Bullying is usually described by the types of behaviours involved, so we talk about verbal, social and physical bullying.

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Verbal bullying which includes name calling or insulting someone about physical characteristics such as their weight or height, or other attributes including race, sexuality, culture, or religion.

Physical bullying which includes hitting or otherwise hurting someone, shoving or intimidating another person, or damaging or stealing their belongings.

Social bullying which includes consistently excluding another person or sharing information or images that will have a harmful effect on the other person. Hence, cyberbullying can be considered as social bullying. This supports the article of Harper (2017), which states that “social bullying is a kind of bullying that has grown with the boom of social media and cell phones”.

There are also many kinds of cyberbullying according to End to Cyberbullying Orgnization:

1. Harassment- It involves the bully sending offensive and malicious messages to an individual or a group and is often repeated multiple times. Cyberstalking is one form of harassment that involves continual threatening and rude messages, and can lead to physical harassment in the real, offline world.

2. Flaming- it is similar to harassment, but it refers to an online fight exchanged via emails, instant messaging or chat rooms. It is a type of public bullying that often directs harsh languages, or images to a specific person.

3. Exclusion- it is the act of intentionally singling out and leaving a person out from an online group such as chats and sites. The group then subsequently leave malicious comments and harass the one they singled out.

4. Outing –it is when a bully shares personal and private information, pictures, or videos about someone publicly. A person is “outed” when his information has been disseminated throughout the internet.

5. Masquerading- it is a situation where a bully creates a fake identity to harass someone anonymously. In addition to creating a fake identity, the bully can impersonate someone else to send malicious messages to the victim.

In conclusion, Cyberbullying is considered as social bullying. Any kinds or forms of bullying is bad and can be harmful to other people.