Cyberbullying: A Risk of CyberAddiction

With the advancement in the digital technologies, the internet has become major break-through and has been universally acceptable technology by the people of all the ages. They use the internet for the purpose of entertainment, shopping, gossiping, and playing games and also for harming the other users in the form of promoting fraud, cyberbullying and sometimes terrorism. However, overuse of internet which is often called cyberaddiction results in some negative implications such as health disorders, poor social relationships, poor academic performance, cyberbullying and so on. For this paper, we have surveyed people using questionnaire on the subject related to internet usage and cyberbullying. As a result, this paper shows the analysis of internet usage, cyberbullying and its relationship. Cyberbullying is the most important concept to be considered now a days for the researchers as it is directly linked to the lives of the youth of the world. Earlier research did not focus on the importance of social media, however, this paper discusses linkage of the overuse of social media with cyberbullying.