Cyber Bullying

The rise in technology has influenced our lives with the use of social networking sites and electronic devices predominant with today’s youth. What many adults are unaware of is bullying exists in many forms and is more common in the cyber world. In 2012, CBC news reporter Joan Leishman , aired “Cyber-bullying,” she describes a story about a student named David Knight’s unbearable life entering the Internet. Later in 2014, Rachel Simmons, a former Rhodes Scholar and the founding director of the Girls Leadership Institute, wrote an article titled “Cyberbullying Is a Growing Problem.” Simmons article addressed the impact of cyber bullying in the 21st century and actions school officials and parents overlooked when they are unaware of their child’s Internet activities. The increasing use of social network sites like Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and numerous others allows bullies to go beyond verbal bullying to become cyber bullies.

Leishman takes a closer look into a victim of cyber bullying and interviews David, from Burlington, Ont., about his life living through cyber bullying. In David’s case, bullying did not begin on the Internet, but at school. The taunting, teasing, and punching for years later led to harassments on the Internet, including the humiliation and unbearable struggle David had to endure. David was uninformed about what someone put on the Internet about him until his classmates sent him a message on the Internet. David’s life took a drastic turn when he found an entire website dedicated to him where he is made fun of with photos and vile comments. Not only was David’s humiliation starting to escalate, but also the cyber bully asked others to evoke the same insults by posting lewd and sexual comments. D...

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... our ideas where people cannot actual see you. The surge of technology creates enablers of cyber bullying, who do not have to approach their victim directly, but resort to online communication without any interference. I think cyber bullying is a way of cyber bullies not apprehended for their actions, and consequences are not used; since, adults are not there to actually see the bully and the victim unless in person. Cyber bullying inflicts harm on the individual causing the individual humiliated in front of the global web where people are constantly conversing and looking up stuff on the Internet.

Works Cited

Leishman, Joan. "CBC News Indepth: Bullying." CBCnews. CBC/Radio Canada, 10 Oct. 2012. Web. 02 Mar. 2015.

Simmons, Rachel. "Cyberbullying Is a Growing Problem." Policing the Internet. The Washington Post Company, 28 Sept. 2014. Web. 19 Feb. 2015.