"I've thought of killing myself multiple times. I tried once. That's when my mom took me to therapy," said Sara, who has been
relentlessly cyberbullied via IM, Facebook and Internet forums since seventh grade.
It is infuriating to see that social networking sites can be abused and used as platforms for bullying and teasing.
Let’s define a social network:
A social network is a social structure made of individuals (or organizations) called "nodes," which are tied (connected) by one or more specific types of interdependency, such as friendship, kinship, financial exchange, dislike, sexual relationships, or relationships of beliefs, knowledge or prestige.
Oh man, why do they have to include “dislike” into the definition? Apart from that, as we can see in the definition, social networking
is, more than anything, a way for friendship and exchange to occur. It is to create more bonds than to break bonds.
However, Sara’s case is considered minor, and just one out of the many kinds of cyber-bullying found in social networking sites.
Sara pointed out that, “"Cyberbullying is worse than to your face, because it's out there for everyone else to see. I don't' think that, le
gally, or in society, anyone takes cyberbullying seriously enough.”
Well how true is that. And true enough, it is worse because people do not have to tell that person the nasty thing face to face – you just type it down.
Such things on facebook can damage people, as for the bullies, they simply do not learn from their mistakes. And for the bullied, they just keep avoiding, till they cannot take it anymore.
We need a police force online that could monitor these forms of bullying. Really.
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