Humans are beings with great strength and weakness. We try our best by keeping it hidden from the public, but there are others who derive great joy from exploiting others weaknesses, these people are called bullies. The concept of bullying is mostly attached to physical form of violence, untill the emergence of internet, then everything changed.
Which one is worst, physical or online bullying? Let's first analyse the level of influence of both type of bullying. You see physical bullying requires maintaining contact with a person, by constantly harassing them. This is the most popular form of bullying, it has been existing for ages. In schools, work place, home, even in the most sacred places like religious grounds.
With physical bullying, a person can easily avoid it by staying away from a specific place. It has to do with a person or group of people or a place, identifying such people is not really difficult. As long as a person has a means of reporting the perpetrators, they will surely be dealt with. Though there are severe cases of physical bullies, when the bully is just too Influential to be dealt with. But as long as the bullying is attached to a place or person, staying away could soften the blow.
When it comes to online bullying, it took awhile before authorities recognize it as a threat. Despite the recognition, it takes awhile before it is taken seriously. It could be done by anyone from anywhere, tagging a person as a bully online, it takes considerable amount of evidence, even if a person manages to get hold of the person, others will still judge you for over reacting.
Especially, when it comes to social media, there is no limit to it. In the name of cruise, a lot of people mental health have been destabilized. The potency of online bullying is all about how people take it as a normal thing, untill someone is pushed off the edge or someone dies before it is discovered that the person was subjected to online bully.
That aside, both forms of bully have there strong hold but to measure which is worst is not as easy as it sounds. While some individual can withstand online bullying, without it having any effect on their mental health, some can't. Physical bullying might be tough but the moment the victim can tackle the bully, the turf war ends. The truth about bully is that they prefer to prey on the weak rather than fight with their equal.
I have had a taste of physical bully while in school and I know how tough it can be but I have also heard how devastating online bullying can be. So instead of trying to measure which one is worst, it best both are taken as equal. Regardless of how it is done, bully is bully. While we pay attention to physical bully because we believe it to be far worst than online bullying, a lot of people are becoming victims of cruise.
This write-up was inspired by weekly featured content titled Online Vs Physical in hive learners community.
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