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To start, I believe that there is a definite correlation between gender and cyberbullying. In today’s era, most social interactions take place on the internet which in hand has affected how aggression and bullying are now manifested. The main difference between bullying and cyberbullying is that cyberbullying incorporates the principle of anonymity. With this, children deem cyberbullying as a safer medium for bullying because they are less likely to get caught, especially in cases where parental supervision is limited. Gender directly affects cyberbullying because social interaction is different for each gender and people are aware of these differences and use it to their advantage such as the example of the gender swapping of characters for video gamers. Furthermore, the statistics gathered from the “no” argument are unreliable because they failed to use a wider variety of electronics in their experiments that are relative to the culture and society today. Lastly, comparisons from Kowalski, Limber, and Agatston between the types of bullying that boys and girls engage demonstrate that females and males differentiate in how, why and who they choose to cyberbully. To continue, in order to prove that the stereotypes associated with each gender do affect social interactions between the sexes, argument “yes” provided a study that proved social interactions differed for each gender character in video games. Sixty percent of video gamers admitted to having swapped the gender of their character because, “using stereotypic attributes of one gender or the other allows one to be treated differently” ( Kowalski, Limber, and Agatston 299). Social media sites such as Facebook, Instagram and twitter are not anonymously based, therefore the kinds of interactions that take place in such sites are influenced by the unique attributes associated with each gender role. For example, one cannot deny that gender does affect cyberbullyin

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