Cyber bullying is a problem many children and teenagers have to face daily at school away from their parents supervision and protection. Cyber bullying means harassing another person online by sending or posting on some websites mean comments or messages, sometimes being anonymous. It can threaten another person and it can hurt their feelings, and even making fun of who they are. Cyber bullying is done by electronic devices, such as phones, computers, and etc. It could be on social media sites, by text messages, chat, or even websites. With the rise of social media, cyber bulling has taken on a whole new look. The top two social Medias that are often used for cyber bulling are facebook and twitter. The cyber bulling can take place publicly or by sending a private message. Embarrassing pictures can be posted and tagged with the name of the person being bullied. As well as posting comments to spread gossip and rumors.
The technology is not the problem as much as the immaturity of the user, the kids who commit suicide over cyber bullying are already dealing with emotional depression at home, and get on social sites to feel accepted from others but not to get humiliated by people, they feel as if they have nothing else to live for and embarrassed when they get mistreated on social sites where over millions of people are logged on to. Most of the time they are getting cyber bullied by people that are close to them. Do you think it that simple to stop cyber bullying?
A simple block on Facebook may seem simple but does that really stop a cyber-bully. A block does not always hold back a cyber-bully. Some cyber-bullies go through great lengths to make people feel pain. Cyber-bullying is a delicate situation that not all people can handle. A simple solution can be to block the cyber-bully but for some bullies it is merely an obstacle.
(MDC: excerpt from a group paper: Group members: Cheila Gonzalez ,Alyssa Almeida, Jenny Mathieu, Tamicka Augustine, Guerda Desrakin, Jeff Faustin)
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