Cyberbullying

Dont mess with something so series like cyberbullying

Cyberbullying isn't something you should mess with. It leads to serious consequences not only for the victim but also for the bully. If you don't understand what cyberbullying is let me explain. Cyberbullying is a dangerous activity that includes electronics used to acsess social media, and the creation of fake accounts and phone numbers.  Today, almost every aspect of are lives has gone digital making face to face communication less useful for people that use social media a lot. Examples of cyberbullying are mean text messaging or emails, rumors sent by email, embarrassing pictures, video websites, or fake profiles on social  media. 

Cyberbullying affects a lot of young people in the United States. Sometimes these stories end very tragically, like the story of Jessica Logan and Rebecca Sedgwick. Jessica was a senior in high school and she had a boyfriend. During their relationship she shared some private pictures with him. Like any young relationship they broke up and Jessica thought he had deleted the pictures of her, but he didn't. Instead another girl borrowed his phone and found the pictures and sent them to herself. She took the pictures and shared them with students from six different schools! Jessica started skipping school because she found out the pictures she sent to her boyfriend weren't private anymore. A group of young girls started harassing her, calling her vicious names, and physically throwing things at her. Her mom tried to get help from the school and all the school could do was talk to the girls and have them delete the images and leave Jessica alone. That didn't stop the bullying online. They posted mean things about her and texted her from fake accounts. Eventually she couldn't take it anymore and one day she went into her room and hung herself. When her mom went into her room she saw what Jessica had done. She noticed her phone lying in the middle of her room. I wish this was the only cyberbullying story but there was  a very recent one involving Rebecca Sedgwick. Rebecca was terrorized by as many as 15 girls who ganged up on her and picked on for her for months through online message boards and texts. One of the girls had been dating Rebecca's former boyfriend. The two had gone to the same school where, at some point, there was a physical confrontation between the two girls. The girl who had been dating rebecca's former boyfriend went to friends around the school and tried to have them turn on Rebecca. The girl posted comments on the internet saying Rebecca should drink bleach and die. When Rebecca heard all this she just thought it all had to come to an end. Rebecca climbed a tower at an abandon concrete plant and jumped to her death on September 9, 2013. I can go on and fill these pages with stories like these. Tyler Clementi jumped from the George Washington Bridge, Sara Lynn Butler ended her life after constant bullying on her My Space Page, Rachel Neblett also did the same thing when she read what people where posting on her My Space. Ryan Halogen, Hope Witsell, Grace McComas, and Hannah Smith just to mention a few, also took there lives as a result for cyberbullying. You should look some of these people up, and learn there stories. They will change your life.

There are signs you can look for that can tell you if your child is being cyberbullied or is a cyberbully. Your child may be a victim if he or she: unexpectedly stops using the computer, avoids discussion about what they are doing on the computer, appears nervous or jumpy when they receive an instant message, text message or email, seems uneasy about going to school or outside in general. Your child may be a cyberbully if he or she is using the computer at all hours of the night, gets upset if he or she doesn't get to use the computer, avoids discussions about what they are doing on the computer, uses multiple online accounts or uses accounts that are not their own. Be very carful and pay attention. The behavior your child show when around a computer will provide you the clues you need in order to  determine if your child is a victim or a cyberbully. 

If your a victim of cyberbullying, don't do anything. Take 5! Calm down. Block the cyberbully from your friends list and avoid contacting them, and tell a trusted adult! It could be a teacher, parent, older sister or brother. Please ask someone for help! The best way to stop cyberbullying is to prevent it in the first place. Parents, school staff, and other adults in the community can help kids prevent bullying by talking about it, building a safe school environment, and creating a community wide bullying prevention strategy. Find out what you can do. 

I think that cyberbullying is something terrible thats happening today. My feelings about cyberbullying is that nothing good comes of it, people get hurt or want to die. No one deserves this type of bullying or any type of bullying. People should be treated the way they want to be treated. If you're bullied you need to tell an adult. Show the texts and messages to your parents or teacher. If you know someone being cyberbullied, stand up for them. Help them get the help they need. Don't participate in the cyberbullying. The only way we will get rid of cyberbullying is to speak up against it and help those that are suffering. You might save a life!

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[The Nude Writer]

Very powerful story that needs to be told :) I love it!