Nearly 160,000 students miss school everyday due to fear of being bullied. A bully is defined as an overbearing person who habitually badgers and intimidates smaller or weaker people. Bullying is a vicious cycle that continues to repeat. Almost 75% of students in grades K-12 report being bullied in school. Now bullying is accessible on the internet. Cyberbullying is destructive, and it is important to know the effect it has on people and how to prevent it.

Bullying consists of direct and indirect behaviors such as teasing, taunting, threatening, hitting, and theft that is initiated by one or more students against a victim. The practice of this behavior has become more frequent in the levels of secondary and public or private schools. Technology continues to adapt resulting in cyberbullying and harassment through increasingly popular social media. Cyberbullying is a major concern in advanced societies today in the technological sense.
 
Bullying in schools is a global problem that can have negative consequences for the school and prevents the students to learn in a safe environment. Bullying effects people for life. Many studies have been conducted over the years on bully victims that continue to have problems in their adult life. There are a lot of cases of people that commit suicide or other  terrible actions because of bullying. The victims usually consist of children, pre-teens and teen girls and boys.

Bullying has many negative affects on developing adolescents. Self-esteem is affected by all aspects of bullying. In addition to the detriment bullying inflicts on students' self-esteem, psychological diseases, depression and neuroses are all issues caused by chronic bullying. Students might also experience any number of difficulties and painful situations such as shyness, shame and fear.

School authorities have their hands tied to battle cyberbullying because most of the actions of harassment occur outside of school. One way to fight this latest variation of bullying is to educate children from a young age with moral and ethical values. Although this is occurring to children and teens it is also important to inform parents about these violent events. Also, we can prevent this by supporting anti-bullying associations and drawing more attention to the issue of cyber bullying.

Cyberbullying is damaging, and we need to understand the effect it has on people and how to stop this cycle. It's a haunting form of harassment that follows students wherever they go. The amount of aftermath caused by bullying is paramount. Awareness is the most practical way to help solve this problem of bullying. If we all join the fight against bullying we can defeat this toxic epidemic forever.