Nowadays, if you go around asking people what they do to entertain themselves, at least a few people will say they like to play video games. The video game industry today is worth over $130 billion, and is expected to reach $180 billion by 2021. This growth didn’t just happen overnight. It has been 60
A relatively new form of bullying has been introduced known as cyberbullying. This new type of bullying is committed by any text, video, message, or image that is used through an electronic device including a phone, gaming console, tablet, laptop, or computer. If a person is deliberately harassing or threatening a certain group or person
With technology vastly expanding and improving day by day, many people of all ages have access to the Internet and almost every social media platform. With its mass commercial use, some people might not have foreseen the issue of cyberbullying and how harmful it can really be. A cyberbully usually posts offensive photos and videos,
Cyber bullying is a form of harassment that takes place predominantly online; basically they are the internet version of real-life bullies. Doctor Larissa Hirsch, a New York-based pediatrician, wrote an article saying, “Bullies have been around forever...
We are in 2018 where smartphones and social media go hand and hand, literally and figuratively. One of the biggest social media applications today is Instagram with a whopping 1 billion users, increasing to 200 million from 800 million in 2017. Instagram is widely used by people of all ages for various reasons. The
The future of technology is an idea that is forever expanding as time passes by. As of 2018, there are over 4.2 billion active internet users across the world along with about 3.8 billion active internet users using some form of social media. Ad...
When you think of Data Mining do you think of your information being stolen? Many people have this negative connotation of what data mining is, and these people could be so far from the truth. As defined by (dictionary.com), Data mining is “the process of collecting, searching through, and analyzing a large amount of data
In today’s society, the increase of cyberbullying has surpassed previous years due to the facile attainability of technology. To this day, adolescents have the ability to interact with other people virtually whether through social media, online games, or cell phones. Thus, one of the many reasons cyberbullying has impacted teenagers both psychologically and emotionally. Even
In our current and growing society, things are expanding in every way possible. Everywhere we look people are constantly on devices of some sort, but no one really thinks about how this is all possible. How are all of the electronic dots connected to ensure that we are constantly able to communicate? Behind the scenes
