Harassment Experiences of University-going Female Facebook Users in Bangladesh

Abstract

Abstract

Cyber-harassments on social networking sites have become an everlasting issue in the present situation and women using Facebook have been found as the victim of this harassment (Choja & Nelson, 2016). Intended to identify the harassment patterns of university-going female Facebook users of Bangladesh by taking the Muted Group Theory and the Standpoint Theory as theoretical frameworks, this descriptive study has surveyed 307 female university-going Facebook users from five universities of Bangladesh through online. Findings of the survey show that 61.9% of the university-going female Facebook users of Bangladesh is being victims of different types of harassment on Facebook in different frequencies by different types of people according to their relation with them. Moreover, 84.21% of them have never taken any steps to stop these harassments, mostly because they do not know where to seek help and what is the actual procedure. The findings of the survey also portray the lack of confidence and the communication gap between victims of these types of harassment and law enforcement agencies of the country.