Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Cyber Bullying

What is cyber bullying? Cyber bullying is defined as when a child, preteen or teen is tormented, threatened, harassed, humiliated, embarrassed or otherwise targeted by another child, preteen or teen using the Internet, interactive and digital technologies or mobile phones. Cyber bullying is not face to face and very cowardly. Cyber bullying is very serious and can be vary hurtful to people. Their have been instances which kids have committed suicide because they cant get away from the cyber bullies. Cyber bullying is one of the only ways kids can be bullied at home and bullied non stop.
Stop Cyber Bullying!

Cyber Bullying is an obvious issue in today's world. 42% of kids say they have been bullied in some shape or form online or through their cell phones. Its also been shown that as kids get older they say or hear more hurtful things through technology. Cyber bullying is a fast growing new way to bully ever since Facebook and Myspace started. Cyber bullying has many differnet forms such as text messages, emails, messages on different websites, and any type of media sent around. Cyber bullying continues to grow and it must be stopped!


research on cyber bullying