Investigation of behavior of users in social media cyber bullying: A field study

The main purpose of this study is to investigate cyberbullying exposure and cyber bullying behavior of social media users. In this study, gender, age, marital status, education and income status and the use of social media tools were compared and cyberbullying behaviors of the participants were compared. In the study, a questionnaire was applied to 465 participants who were easily selected by sampling. As a result of the analysis, cyberbullying behaviors differ according to gender. In other words, men are more exposed to cyber bullying and cyber bullying than women. In addition, as the time spent on social media increased, participants were more exposed to cyber bullying and more cyber bullying. In addition, it was found that Twitter users were exposed to more cyber bullying than non-users. Keywords: Cyber Bullying, Hate, Othering, Social Media