Should We Be Prosecuted On Social Media?

There is a conflict, whether individuals should or should not be prosecuted on statements made on social media. In my opinion, I believe students should be prosecuted on statements made on social media. The reasons why I agree with this is, because cyberbullying is harder to avoid than regular bullying, it can be used to harass others, and stalk people online. The first reason why cyberbullying is harder to avoid than regular bullying, because both of them are different. For example, it says in the text “Conventional bullying usually takes place between two people in the same place at the same time.” which means a bully is being rude or is physically hurting the victim at the same place like school for example, but on the other hand “it’s

For example a person probably at school or somewhere else takes a picture of you in an embarrassing way that you don’t like and then the cyberbully sends it all over the school by using social media and rumors go around the victim by laughing at him and making fun of ther person. Another effect from cyberbullying from a fact sheet says “60% of targets said that their online experiences as a target of cyberbullying affected them at school, home, and with friends and reported experiencing feelings of frustration, anger and sadness.” this evidence shows what types of physical pain victims experience from cyberbullying. (The Ophelia Project line 31-37) How cyberbullying can lead to rumors is by in the text “...cyberbullying can also reach a much wider audience, due to the popularity of social networking sites.” since social media such as facebook, twitter, and etc. are so popular cyberbullies can send pictures of the victim on those networking sites. (line 50-51 Brett Warnke) Cyberbullying is also writing hurtful statements and to insult people of what they look like or

How cyberbullies stalk is pretending to be another person online, and also set up fake user accounts, to harass, irritate, embarrass the victim and, also try to hide their identity so the victim doesn't find out who he or she is being stalked by. This is an example, someone being stalked online and it says in the text “In 2008, Lori Drew was convicted of violating the Computer Fraud… Assuming the fake identity of a teenage boy, Drew used the account to flirt with, and break up with Megan Meier.” this shows cyber bullying gets worse when people start making fake accounts to stalk others. (line 9-13 Brett