James Tyler – 1990 to 2005
It amazes me that cyber bullying has not drawn more media attention, and only does when someone commits suicide, but then the media is off on a new topic in a very short time. Cyber bullying happens every day around the world.
I liked how the video showed the bullying escalating from jokes to cyber bullying, and the effects that bullying had as warning signs, Grades dropping, less friends, less effort, and physically hurt himself before hanging himself. These kids don’t want to commit suicide, they want help stopping people from bullying them, and they give signals before they get to the point of suicide.
The quote “I can’t take this anymore. They’re always after me. Why, why are they doing this? I don’t know what I’ve done, no one is helping me. Make them stop it please. I don’t want to live like this anymore.” Is interesting, all of the signals are subtle, but when put together, they throw up a giant red flag. I wonder if he said directly to a caring adult that he needs help with this problem.
Although there should be a punishment for bullying, the punishment could never be as evil as being bullied to the point of suicide. Teenagers struggle enough with fitting in and creating their own identity. Cyber bullying enables bullies to get to them even in what was their safest place, their home.
I like the website http://cyberbullying.us/blog/ because it is a blog and people can post replies instead of just reading an article and moving on. A collection of minds on how to stop cyber bullying is a great idea and should be a more popular site. The article wrote yesterday is interesting because it discusses adults being victims of cyber bullying also.
I also like website http://www.ncpc.org/cyberbullying because although it has a large amount of information on the home page, it has bold headings, and bullets instead of paragraphs, which are much easier to skim through to the information the user is looking for.
1 comments:
The issue of cyberbullying is like almost every other sensitive topic. It is not reported on until someone gets hurts, or worse, dies. This is unfortunate. We, as a society, should be informed of a potential problem before it gets out of hand. It reminds me of how nothing can be done to an abuser until he or she actually hurts his or her victim. That has always been backwards logic to me. Wouldn't the authorities want to stop the torment before it escalates into violence...or death?
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