Two Girl Arrested In Teen's Suicide By Steve Almasy

Bullying is a childhood memory most of us hope not to remember. Many people end up being victims of bullying and are unaware of how to prevent it. Suicide, depression, criminal behavior and use of drugs and alcohol are common side effects of bullying. Nowadays, bullying has expanded into the virtual world in what has been called “cyberbullying. Cyberbullying unlike conventional bullying can be completely anonymous and is sometimes reported to bring many children to the end of their lives by committing suicide.

What is cyber bullying? Cyber bullying “repeated harm inflicted through the use of computers, cell phones and other electronic devices”, according to the Ophelia Project. Individuals should be prosecuted for cyber bullying. Nearly one in three teens admit to being cyber bullied. People can go on any social media page and make fake accounts.

There have been two unfortunate suicidal cases in recent years due to cyber bullying: one victim jumped off a cement factory tower with the one shot himself in the chest. A group of Dutch researchers decided to study the relationship between the bullying and the suicides. From 34 studies that shared close resemblance to the issue, they concluded that the children that were being cyber bullied was 3.12 times more likely to have suicidal thoughts, compared to children that were had never been bullied before. One of the researchers also pointed out that annually, about five to eight percent of the US population attempts to commit

Bullying is a major issue facing today’s youth. Over the course of the past few years bullying has become such a concern that many states have adopted laws against it. However, the issue evolves as time goes on and now cyber bullying exists. Cyber bullies can insult others over the internet with no need to be nearby the person they are insulting.

This is the first century and technology has never been better. It has become so advanced that it has opened up opportunities for jobs, learning, and bullying. It is now easier than ever to bully someone all hours of the day, and to make the bullying follow them wherever they go. Cyberbullying never used to be much of a problem, in fact it didn’t use to exist. But now with all the new technology, and all the freedom online cyber bullying happens everyday.

Unwanted, aggressive behavior, among any age group classifies as bullying. Cyberbullying is another form of bullying that involves social media and electronic devices. In my opinion, cyber bullying is more severe because, at the end of the day, the victim can not get away from the issue. They go home to social media, what is now the center of our time, and it is impossible to escape the terror of being bullied.

Common types of cyberbullying include sending mean or hurtful messages or threats, spreading rumours online, posting harmful messages. Bullies can do this through an account where they are pretending to be someone else or hacking into the victim’s account by stealing their account information. Since there are so many forms of technology, this type of bullying can spread rapidly. It can affect the victim straight away. Isafe.org has reported that over half of adolesants and teens have been cyberbullied, and one in three have experienced cyber threats.

“... The girl who was bullied to the point she committed suicide.” (Paragraph 8). Not only re the bullies destroying family, but are becoming a killer. If the bully had a friend or family member be bullied to suicide they would then understand the power their words have. “ We rely on the real world or teachers and parent to guard against bullies- do we just dismiss bullying on the internet and all it entails because we are entering difficult ethical ground?”

Many people, as the author mentions, have experienced cyber-bullying and a lot of young people are not aware of the harm that they are causing by bullying someone, until the situations becomes very serious, almost irretrievable. The case of Jessica Logan, a high school senior who committed suicide after sending nude pictures of herself to her boyfriend is a typical scenario within our youth. After they broke up, the boyfriend posted nude pictures of Jessica on the Internet and she was harassed and called horrible names by other students at school. She committed suicide after attending the funeral of a boy who committed suicide. A lot of times, teenagers are not aware of the harm they are causing to others, even when clearly being told so.

This study proved that given the amount of time that adolescents are on computers unsupervised whether it be at home or in public libraries those who cyberbully are most often the ones that were prior victims to cyberbullying themselves. This study would benefit in research for “affects cyberbullying has on adolescents because it gives reasons to why cyberbullying bully in the first place. Although with was full of useful information it would have been more beneficial to monitor social media sites that the kids were using verses how long the kids were on the internet. In doing so, it would have supported their theory of cyberbullies being vicitam of bullying as

Four Teens Found Dead by the Connecticut River In mid November, four teenagers’ bodies were found in the Connecticut River. The victims were all nineteen years old.  A car that was found with them had been flipped over in the river. Police had stated that the names of the victims were believed to have been Christy Stevens, Jill Sawyer, Laura Lagrotteria, and Michael Gallo.

be used to design intervention programs to enhance resilience among adolescents to help them manage bullying behaviors and to prevent them from experiencing victimization (Narayanan, Betts, 2014).

Cyber Bullying has become an increasing problem in our society that threatens physical and emotional harm to ever greater numbers of young people. The sad fact is, some youths are so deeply affected by the negative influence of bullying that they have taken their own lives. Although suicides represent a rare and extreme reaction to bullying, it is a real issue that our children are facing today. Cyberbullying is often a factor in young people becoming depressed and having low self-esteem. Cyberbullying has been an issue, in the United States as well as everywhere throughout the world.

Bullies are frequently in a position of power over their victims. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention approximately 5,000 people between the ages of 10 and 24 take their own lives every

Cyberbullying Cyber bullying has been a big part of a teens life that 's where they get mistreated by other people. Throughout these years cyberbullying has been increasing really fast especially in school grounds, bullying has been a major part of the school to because that 's where teens notice who they like and they dislike. The main focus on cyber bullying comes from where one person does not like that other person so they prefer to make fun of them instead of friendship. Cyberbullying can also have a major impact on a teens life that can make them do something that they will regret doing, they do that because they think that there is no way to get away from it so they decide their own way to deal with it. There 's different varieties of levels where they take little steps or even bigger steps, cyberbullying can occur in middle school level of in a high school level.