Cyber Bullying the Ugly Truth

By Henry, Justin, Spence, and Nolen

Abby Kincer, 16, a junior at Elkins High, was on both lists. "They wrote extremely mean, explicit and false things about her sexualities.

It was humiliating to know that everyone on Facebook could see what one person thought about me. My best friend's mom, my pastor, my teachers - they could all see the nasty things written about me. No one would know if what was written was true or not.“

14-year-old Jamey Rodemeyer had been victimized by bullies. The attacks didn't only happen in person but also continued online, where bullies used social, media to taunt him day and night. Beset by cyberbullies, the student from Williamsville, N.Y., took his own Life on September 18.

Many academics found that approximately 20 percent of students admitted to having cyberbullied.

We need to stand up to cyberbullies, kids each day are hurting or killing themselves because of false things said on the internet.

The distance created by technology makes the act of bullying much easier to perform. Rather than threatening a kid to his face, cyberbullies can simply type the message and hit send without seeing the all too real look on the face of the kid who receives it.

The best advice for students affected by cyberbullying is to get their parents and school administrators involved as soon as possible and not attempt to handle the situation online or suffer in silence.

Combating cyberbullying is a mission that requires administrators, teachers, counselors, parents, and students to work together to ensure that all students are afforded a safe and fear-free learning environment.

Parent-teacher associations have teamed up with local law enforcement agencies to create cyberbullying programs aimed at helping parents and students recognize and deal with the problem of cyberbullying.

Texts, emails, and facebook are the biggest problems of cyberbullying. It has damaged many people under the age of 17.

Some schools require that students and their parents sign an "Acceptable Internet Use" policy in which students agree to not use their computers to antagonize or harass other students, and parents agree to be responsible for their children's Internet use outside of school.

Schools can be very effective brokers in working with the parents to stop and remedy cyberbullying situations.

It is destroying peoples lives forcing them to give up there lives. We need to come together and stop it. Why is it happening?

Most cyberbullying can start on Facebook or sending texts. Cyber bullies start calling A girl who is overweight “fat girl”. If it gets to far it might lead to depression, serious diseases Such as anorexia, or maybe even suicide.

Cyberbullying includes everything from sending cruel text messages to posting violent videos on YouTube. Such behavior is almost always hurtful. As recent teen suicides have shown, it also can have deadly consequences.

Approximately half of cyberbullying victims are also targets of traditional bullying. Victims generally are more unpopular, isolated, depressed, anxious, and fearful than their peers.

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