Cyber Bullying
Since computers and social networking sites have been invented there has been one big problem Cyber Bullying. Cyber Bulling is just like normal Bullying expect that it is done over the Internet or texts.
Cyber Bullying on the Internet
the sites that you most commonly use to Cyber bully are mostly likely to be Facebook and Twitter. More thank likely every teenager has an account to these websites. So if you get bulled at school and come and turn on Twitter or Facebook the bullying happens on there to, for the victim it feels like you can't escape. Even though there are laws against Cyber Bullying but why does it still happen?
a lot of people self harm or commit suicide.
Amanda Todd
Amanda Todd(left below) was a victim of Cyber Bullying and sadly committed suicide on October 10th 2012 at the age of 15. On September 7th 2012(a month) she uploaded a video to here youtube channel explain in here story (right a screen cap from the video). Here story is: A few years ago, she was chatting with someone she met online, a man who flattered her. At his request, she flashed him. The man took a picture of her breasts. He then proceeded to follow Todd around the Internet for years. He asked her to put on another show for him, but she refused. So he’d find her classmates on Facebook and send them the photograph. To cope with the anxiety, Todd descended into drugs and alcohol and ill-advised flirtations and sex. Her classmates ostracized her. She attempted suicide a few times but then on October 10th 2012 she died due to hanging her self.
information got from here: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2012/10/amanda-todd-michael-brutsch-and-free-speech-online.html#ixzz2MrjHSGMU
a lot of people self harm or commit suicide.
Amanda Todd
Amanda Todd(left below) was a victim of Cyber Bullying and sadly committed suicide on October 10th 2012 at the age of 15. On September 7th 2012(a month) she uploaded a video to here youtube channel explain in here story (right a screen cap from the video). Here story is: A few years ago, she was chatting with someone she met online, a man who flattered her. At his request, she flashed him. The man took a picture of her breasts. He then proceeded to follow Todd around the Internet for years. He asked her to put on another show for him, but she refused. So he’d find her classmates on Facebook and send them the photograph. To cope with the anxiety, Todd descended into drugs and alcohol and ill-advised flirtations and sex. Her classmates ostracized her. She attempted suicide a few times but then on October 10th 2012 she died due to hanging her self.
information got from here: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2012/10/amanda-todd-michael-brutsch-and-free-speech-online.html#ixzz2MrjHSGMU
Cyberbully(film)
On July 17th 2011 a movie was released called cyberbully (as far as I know it's not based on a true story) The movie shows a girl names Taylor Hillridge ( Emily Osment) how gets a laptop to for here seventeenth. At first she loves having the Laptop but when she starts to get bullied online she findes it hard at school because the bullying is happening there to. When it pushes here to far she post a video on a social networking site basically saying what she is about to do here friend same (Kay Panabaker) she call Taylor's Mum (Kelly Rowan) they get to Taylor in time. When she was feeling better she goes to a support group for people how are getting Cyber bulling she reallies that he is not alone and other people get cyber bullied to her and her Mum decide to try and get a law against Cyber bulling. When Taylor goes back to school she and her friends stand up to the bullies we then find out that the law was finally passed ( below a movie poster for Cyber bully) I have watched this movie and I'd defiantly say that you should watch it it is very interesting.
cyber bullying statistics
- 38% of young people have been affected by cyber-bullying.
- 30,439 children called ChildLine in 2010/11 about bullying.
- Almost half (46%) of children and young people say they have been bullied at school at some point in their lives.
- 38% of disabled children worried about being bullied.
- 18% of children and young people who worried about bullying said they would not talk to their parents about it.
- 29% of children and young people in England experienced bullying in 2009/10.
- 30,439 children called ChildLine in 2010/11 (11% of calls) about bullying.
- Bullying was the main reason that boys called ChildLine.
- Two thirds (65%) of lesbian, gay and bisexual young people have experienced homophobic bullying at school.
- Between 8% and 34% of children and young people in the UK have been cyberbullied, and girls are twice as likely to experience persistent cyberbullying than boys
- 38% of young people have been affected by cyber-bullying, with abusive emails (26%) and text messages (24%) being the most common methods.
- 28% of children did not tell anyone about the abusA survey of pupils in England estimates that 16,493 young people aged 11-15 (4.4%) are frequently absent from state school or home educated because of bullying.
Where do I get help
If you are getting Cyber bullied you need to tell someone a friend, a parent or even a teacher look you are not alone and it is not your fault there are also a lot of websites, support groups that can help you. Or if you friend is getting Cyber bullied and they don't want to tell anyone for them tell someone on there behalf before it's to late. remember Cyberbullying is against the law.
my view
I think that Cyberbullying is wrong and that it should not happen.
i totally agree
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