The Child Care Phone, most active in the last semester
The new technologies have unfortunately not only influenced positively in society. Given the undeniable progress they have made, they can not ignore the problems brought about by the proliferation of smartphones and the Internet connection that most homes have. One of these negative consequences is the appearance of a new bullying.
The anonymity that ensures the internet and the possibility of contacting the potential victim at any time of the day make many stalkers use their mobile phones and social networks to exercise this type of violence. Cases that are increasingly reported by those who suffer these attacks as reflected in the data offered by the Foundation for Assistance to Children and Adolescents at Risk, ANAR.
Increase in registered cases
The ANAR phone has noticed how in recent years the number of registered cases of cyberbullying have multiplied. This is confirmed by the data from her latest report on the problems detected in adolescence. While in previous years telephone calls to this organization were lower, the latest results registered a total of 573 victims of harassment compared to the 328 of the previous year.
That is to say, the recorded cases of harassment and cyberbullying in Spain grew a 75% from one year to the next. Mainly the form of violence among the students is in situ, this was the 76% of the occasions in which this entity received a call from a victim reporting bullying.
The rest of the cases were through new technologies, a modality that although performed in smaller proportion is increasingly used by the bullies. Especially through instant messaging applications and social networks where images are hung and vexatious comments are exposed towards the victim of this cyberbullying.
Sometimes even the victim of harassment sees how his account in networks social They flood with intimidating messages and anonymous signature that attack them practically 24 hours a day. This leaves the child in a digital prison that little by little is taking its toll on their self-esteem and can lead to a deep depression.
In the good way
However, the increase in these complaints of harassment does not mean that the context is bad. On the contrary, that more and more children call ANAR to talk about their situation is a good first step since they are victims They have become aware of the need to make their situation visible and they have begun to lose the fear of talking about what is happening to them.
This context also means that when children have information tools, they make use of them. In this case, the ANAR telephone number, which is increasingly being used by the victims of bullying. However, there is still much to be done, such as making the children understand the need to inform their families.
To this day something more than 30% of minors who called the telephone of this organism recognizes that it did not communicate it to his parents and suffered it in silence. A fact to which the privacy of social networks contributes, a place that many adults can not access due to the refusal of their children. It is important that minors who have such accounts in these websites accept their parents in the list of friends and that there is a fluent communication in case of a case of cyberbullying.
Damián Montero
