Cyber Bullying

Thesis statement- Cyber Bullying is a known problem all across the

world. It goes unnoticed as actual bullying most of the time, but cyber

bullying can be very harmful, and sometimes even fatal. More and

more people are standing up against it, but there are still a lot of

cyber bullies in the world.

I. My name is Mishaela Elizabeth Schwan and I am doing my report

on Cyber Bullying because I believe it is a very important problem

that more people need to know about, so they understand just how

bad it is.

A. In October 2006, a young girl named Megan Meier took her

own life after frantic, cyber bullying. A friend’s mother, Lori Drew,

joined MySpace under the false identity of Josh Evans. She began

talking to Megan, building a bond between them, Then she began

sending hateful and rude messages directed toward Megan. This

resulted in a fatal end.

B. Cyber Bullying is using Internet and other digital devices to

try to harm someone. Insults, threats, and any other mean remarks

are considered Cyber Bullying. One in ten children worldwide

experiences cyber bullying.

II. Since technology has been introduced to the world, it seems a new

kind of bully has emerged. The cyber bully.

A. Cyber bullying happens when some posts, writes, and

messages about somebody.

1. Cyber bullying can hurt and damage people in a lot of

ways. People just as well suffer from cyber bullying than they would

from regular bullying. They both leave harmful affects, and while

saying things in front of someone’s face is bad, it’s worse when the

person is using a false identity to hide. In some states cyber bullying

is illegal.

2. Children can experience and witness cyber bullying

events. More than one in three children in America have expirenced

cyber bullying online. Half of the children who are cyber bullied, never

tell an adult or guardian who can help them.

3. People can also participate in cyber bullying via text

message. Text messages can be sent to one direct person or group

messages, contacting several people. These text messages can be

sent to anyone. Using hateful or violent words in a text message is

considered cyber bullying, even if some people don’t realize it.

4. Social networking gives a simple way of targeting

someone. It is simple to create an account of Facebook, Twitter, or

MySpace using false pictures and information. Cyberbullies can use

this to their advantage, and post rude messages through photos,

private messaging, and posts on walls, under a profile that no one

may recognize.

B. Cyber bullying awareness by parents and teachers

1.Teachers and parents can help protect their children and

teach them how to protect themselves by teaching them about

internet safety and the harmful things that can come from the internet.

Then should monitor their children and make sure they don’t go on

innapropriate sites, and protect them from anyone that would want to

harm them.

2. Friends can help cyber bullying by fighting back. They can

confront the bully and address the problem, then ask the bully to stop.

If this doesn’t help, the bully can be blocked or reported to the cyber

police.

C. Seeing or expiriencing cyber bullying may make want

someone to jump in and help, but most of the time, nobody knows

what to do about it.

1. Friends and acquaintances should go against

cyberbullying by taking positive action. Stand up towards the bullying

and help protect the victim. Help them overcome cyber bullying and

teach them how to protect themselves.

2. Using the internet safely and protecting someone’s

reputation and identity is very important, a cyber bully could easily

embarrass, and or damage a person by posting pictures, messages,

or posts that could set a bad reputation for them, and cause people to

think badly about them.

D. Cyber bullying has harmful affects. It can lead to low self-

esteem issues, it can cause someone to be anti social, and it can

cause depression, and it can be fatal. Sometimes cyber bullying can

cause such a deep affect that it stays with a victim, all the way

through life and into adulthood.