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Harassment on
Social Media”
What is Social Media?
“An accumulation of technologies and
techniques which appeals to and makes
possible the social interaction drive
between humans”
Types of Social Media
Advantages of Social
Media
Advantages
• It helps identifying criminals who harass other people
or animals easily, as well as many missing kids/people
are found with the help of social media sites.
Image shows a
man from
Chennai, India.
He threw a dog
from the
terrace. Later he
was caught with
the help of
social media
Continued…
It helps people across the globe to communicate
and stay connected to each other without any fee.
Continued…
• It’s a great source of entertainment or
refreshment which helps you lighten your
mood.
Continued…
• It is a way of earning and livelihood for a huge number
of people who are running their Pages on social media
sites like Facebook or are running video channels on
YouTube.
Disadvantages of Social
Media
Continued…
• A lot of people get addicted to social media, for eg.
posting each and every second details of your life on
social sites.
Continued…
• Terrorist groups use it as a weapon to mislead
youngsters by spreading wrong messages to influence
their way of thinking in a negative manner
Continued…
• At an extent, the physical meeting, gatherings and face-to-face
communication between people has been reduced, making us
lazy and thus people like to sit idle in-front of their laptops or
handsets chatting with each other, it has a negative impact of
society and their health too.
Continued…
• There is always a fear of losing your
privacy.
What is Cyber bulling?
“Cyber bullying is the use of inappropriate behavior, strength or influence,
whether directly or indirectly, and whether verbal, written, physical or
through displays of or use of imagery, symbols or otherwise, to intimidate,
torment, threaten, harass or embarrass others, using the Internet or other
technology, such as mobile telephones”
“Types of Cyber Bullying”
Now let’s look at some
example of Cyber bullying!!
Qandeel Baloch Case
• The biggest example in this regard, she said,
was of Qandeel Baloch. Dad explained that
the social media celebrity had been using
online spaces the way she wanted to, not how
society decided she should. This in turn made
her the target of a lot of abuse online.
ED-Nighat of
Hamara Internet
UCP’s Own Case
Continued…
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Blue Whale Game
Continued…
• According to a Russian newspaper, this game is
responsible for “130 suicides (globally) that took place
between November 2015 to April 2016.” While no
suicides linked to Blue Whale have been reported in
Pakistan, but a few impressionable young children have
fallen into the trap of this game.
• The Express Tribune reported earlier today that Dr.
Imran Khan, a psychiatrist at Peshawar’s Khyber
Teaching Hospital (KTH), has told them that two boys,
between the ages of 19 to 21, had approached him for
treatment after they fell into severe depression while
trying to complete the challenges giving to them in the
Blue Whale game.
• This trend of online victimization is
strengthened by a Microsoft report: that 41 %
of Pakistanis bully others online, compared
with the worldwide trend, which is 29 %. This
report was compiled in 2018.
What is Cyber Harassment?