What Is Cyberbullying?

Cyberbullying increases depression and lowers self esteem, and makes people feel powerless. Cyberbullying has increased suicidal thoughts vs. traditional bullying. 60% of over weight teens have recieved mean text messages, emails, tweets, instagram posts, and embarrasing posts on social media. According to the National Crime Victimixation Survey data, 2.2 million high school students, showed that 71.9% of students have been cyberbullied once or twice a year. Cyberbullying has increased in the past 10 years due to the improvement in technology, now a days people don't realize that what they say on the internet can be precieved in many ways, and to some comments can come across as rude or hateful. Our generation is at risk of making the internet
78.4% of districts have an attack plan for students who are at risk of suicide. "Harassing, intimidating, or anotheying another person via electronic communications is considered cyberbulling. Cyberbullying is a crime in California if ending in severe self-harm or suicide. " quoth the California gov. Harrasment and publishing public information is outlawed in California and are misdemeanors. A person who is convictd faces a sentence of no more than a year in jail, a fine of no more than $1,000 (or both). All schools in CA have to set up policies against student on student
Although her mother said that she often checked her daughters MySpace page to insure that nothing inappropriate was going on, her mother noticed that she was getting messages about rumors at school saying that she was a slut, and her mother talked to her about it. Sarah removed her mom from her friend list, by pushing her mother away this could have easily contributed to the horrible events that occured later. On the day of her suicide, she logged into her MySpace page and the last message she read said that she was just a stupid little naive girl and nobody would miss her. That same afternoon she hung herself, when her family returned from her outting they had found her body. She left a suicide not that read that she couldn't handle what others were saying about her. Sorry about the pixalated image.

Cyberbullying is a growing problem for our generation, we need to stand up to this issue before it consumes us. Suicide should not be an option, everything can be resolved. Cyberbullying is spreading like wild fire, a movie was made a few years ago called Cyberbully. It shows how things like that can happen. REST IN PEACE Sarah Butler, Tyler Clementi, Amanda Todd, and the thousands in your