Traditional Bullying
Phantasia Crockett
Mrs. Otey
English 4
March 28, 2013
Cyber Bullying
“NO, STOP, DO NOT DO IT, you do not have to kill yourself over someone cyber bullying you”. People today get bullied over the internet. They are often at home and that is basically where the worst things happen. Mostly students get bullied everyday because of how they look, dress, how they talk, ect. Some people take the bullying too far and lead the person who is getting bullied to kill themselves, or cause any type of damage to their body. Some people think there should be a crime law for cyber bullying, because they have been in that situation and it is devastating that people can talk down on other people. Threats or mean comments that focus on things like a person 's gender, religion, sexual course, race, or physical differences fall into this category. Whether it is done in person or online, this type of meanness counts as discrimination and is against the law in many states; not only cyber bullying hurting people verbally, but it is hurting people physically.
Should there be a crime law for cyber bullying? There should be laws for cyber bullying because it is just the same as hurting people intentionally. Cyber bullying is important because it leads to rumors, deaths, and tragic accidents. Victims of cyber bullying mostly get bullied where the most teens join with each other and chat like Facebook, Instagram, MySpace, and other teen websites. Cyber bullying has become what the most popularity rated for one time victimization. In the last 2 months it was 12.8% for physical, 36.5% for verbal, 41.0% for relational, and 9.8% for cyber forms. (Uhls, Yalda T).Most studies have found that the majority of victims of cyber bullying know the person behind everything, with many bullies being peers from school. (Uhls, Yalda T) The Swedish study divided the kinds of cyber bullying into text (email and text) and visual (video and phone). Text based cyber bullying was seeming
Mrs. Otey
English 4
March 28, 2013
Cyber Bullying
“NO, STOP, DO NOT DO IT, you do not have to kill yourself over someone cyber bullying you”. People today get bullied over the internet. They are often at home and that is basically where the worst things happen. Mostly students get bullied everyday because of how they look, dress, how they talk, ect. Some people take the bullying too far and lead the person who is getting bullied to kill themselves, or cause any type of damage to their body. Some people think there should be a crime law for cyber bullying, because they have been in that situation and it is devastating that people can talk down on other people. Threats or mean comments that focus on things like a person 's gender, religion, sexual course, race, or physical differences fall into this category. Whether it is done in person or online, this type of meanness counts as discrimination and is against the law in many states; not only cyber bullying hurting people verbally, but it is hurting people physically.
Should there be a crime law for cyber bullying? There should be laws for cyber bullying because it is just the same as hurting people intentionally. Cyber bullying is important because it leads to rumors, deaths, and tragic accidents. Victims of cyber bullying mostly get bullied where the most teens join with each other and chat like Facebook, Instagram, MySpace, and other teen websites. Cyber bullying has become what the most popularity rated for one time victimization. In the last 2 months it was 12.8% for physical, 36.5% for verbal, 41.0% for relational, and 9.8% for cyber forms. (Uhls, Yalda T).Most studies have found that the majority of victims of cyber bullying know the person behind everything, with many bullies being peers from school. (Uhls, Yalda T) The Swedish study divided the kinds of cyber bullying into text (email and text) and visual (video and phone). Text based cyber bullying was seeming
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