Cyberbullying

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Cyberbullying 1

What Should the Punishment Be for Cyberbullying?
Perkins, Jonathan

First-Year Writing
Professor Mills

Cyberbullying 2

Cyberbulling has been on a major increase in the last 10 years. . As the old saying goes, “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.” But that phrase will not help a lot on this situation. I personally never experienced cyberbulling. This type of bullying is picking on people online, like Facebook, Yahoo, Youtube, and video games. I did not even know what this was until I heard about this person, named Amanda Todd. She was a 15 year old Canadian and she was bullied. Long story short, she was in a long distance relationship with a older man. One day, she flashed him on webcam and he took a picture of the screen. Through out the year, her picture circulated to every school possible. Everyone made fun of her, picked on her, online and at school. She also posted her final video on Youtube, stating what was going on. People bullied her even more after that. All of a sudden, in October 2012, she committed suicide. Police and FBI still can not identify the man responsible for her photo taken. Even after her death, her last video still receives negative comments.

The question is: how does this affects out schools? Cyberbullying has clearly increased in pertinence at our school. People have proved themselves not mature enough to handle internet use properly in a school setting. What happened is uncalled for, inappropriate, and appalling. The issue is that it was all so abrupt and continued throughout the week. Cyberbullying is not something we can totally ignore. There is a point when we...

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...lying just to remind everyone what a big deal it really is.

No matter if you child is the bully or on the receiving end, make sure you can help to prevent and stop bullying. Bullying is a major situation is a child's life, weather we like it or not. If for instance you cannot handle this on your own, there are no consequences in asking for help. You can find help in a lot of social groups, even your own family can help you.

Reference:
Amanda Todd-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_of_Amanda_Todd

Reflecting:

The easiest step was to gather my information, because I too have experienced bullying. But he later regretted it. The hardest step is causing an argument between the school and there rules on bullying. I learned how frequent and tragic bullying/cyberbulling can be on other people. I will continue my own experience in future writing assignments.

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