Cyber-Bullying Trends Using Social Media Platform: An Analysis through Malaysian Perspectives

In modern era, existing technologies have gone through several phases of innovation and development in line with today's demand. These changes in positive manners facilitate and ease us in many things that were previously thought difficult to solve. As these technologies progress, social media has emerged as one of many preferable platforms of communication in today's society. However, in the light of today's obsession with social media, society particularly tends to apprehends in negative cultures such as cyberbullying. In the past, bullying behavior occurred only at certain ages in certain places such as among teenagers, women, at work or school. At that time bullying could be seen either physically or verbally compared to today's approach attributed significantly with the use of social media due to the modernization of technologies. Many psychoanalysis issues resulting from these irresponsible individuals throwing words at the cyberbullying victims are becoming a millennial disease. Evidences prove that there is no discrimination in cyberbullying as it applies to all individuals regardless of their status and background. Hence, it is time for the government to intervene and address this issues arising from the act of bullying.