Cyberbullying

No Escape

     For most high school students, bullying is not a problem they have to deal with directly. Most teenagers do not meet up outside of school to fight or give wedgies like in the movies. However, cyberbullying is an extremely common form of bullying that is found all around our country. Sites such as Facebook and Twitter give students a chance to interact. This also gives them a chance to call people names and spread rumors at an alarming rate. Some of these cases are minor, such as a teen being called a name once or twice. Sometimes, however, there are major cases of cyber bullying such as making a fake Facebook page for someone, and pretending to be them.

    An example of extreme cyberbullying was with a boy named David. One of his classmates made a website about him. Everyone knew about it and went online and posted really mean things about him, such as he was a pedophile and participated in a date rape. He knew that none of this was true, but this severely damaged his self esteem. After he saw this web-page, he also began receiving emails telling him that no one liked him.

     Cyberbullying is a problem. We need to work to stop this. For some teens, there is no escape. 

Bullying will continue until we take actions! Why do people do it in the first place? There are many reasons. These include; anger, revenge, frustration,entertainment, boredom, to be funny, for power and a bigger ego, to be tough, or to make people think they are cool. These are not good reasons for bullying. We should work together to stop it, and talk out our problems instead of spreading rumors, fighting, making fake websites, etc.

some helpful and informative websites:

http://www.slais.ubc.ca/courses/libr500/04-05-wt2/www/D_Jackson/examples.htm 

http://www.childline.org.uk/Videos/Pages/Cyberbullying.aspx 
http://www.stopcyberbullying.org/why_do_kids_cyberbully_each_other.html 

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