Why Is It Important To Delete Cyberbullying?

Many people are unaware of the damages cyber bullying can do to someone's life because they don’t fully understand what cyber bullying really is. The reason it is important to delete cyber bullying is to eliminate the attention it has gotten in order to ruin peoples lives. Cyber bullying is the use of electronic communication to bully a person, typically by sending messages of an intimidating or threatening nature. Most people think that it only has to do with social media, but it has spread to email, facetime, television, IM... basically any type of electronic communication there is.

The question we need to begin asking ourselves is, "if we know that cyber bullying can affect someone's life negatively and/or possibly end it, why do people

continue to do it?" The majority of the time those who are cyber bullies do it out of anger, revenge, or frustration but it usually differs depending on the person and their situation. However nothing changes the fact that it's wrong and is ruining the lives of those being bullied. How cyber bullying affects people differs just like why people do it. Some victims of cyber bullying may not be affected as severely as others; the severity of cyber bullying can range from just hurting someone's feelings to causing someone to take their own life; cyber bullied victims are 7-9% more likely to consider suicide according to a study by Yale University. So who exactly are cyber bullies? Cyber bullies are not your typical older classman-schoolyard bully, many times the cyber bully could be someone who has had experience being bullied and is trying to seek revenge. In recent studies it has been found that many people who are cyber bullies do not think they are doing anything wrong or think they are righting wrong and are standing up for others. In reality all they are doing is stooping down to the same level as the person they were bullied by.
Now that we have established what cyber bullying is, the affects it can have on people and who the cyber bullies are, we can begin to take steps to delete cyber bullying. You may begin to wonder who should be responsible for deleting cyber bullying. The first people I think of are the people who are in charge of all the different types of social media networking, however everyone is responsible for deleting cyber bullying. It doesn’t matter if you are the bully, if you are the victim or if you just see it happening, it is going to take everyone to join in to end this. Those who see cyber bullying happen are crucial to ending cyber bullying. In a recent study 90% of teens who have seen social media bullying say they have ignored it, 84% said they have seen people tell the bully to stop, but what about the other 14.4% that didn't say anything? That is where we need to pick up the slack. Cyber bullying is like fire, the more oxygen a fire has the bigger it grows; the more publicity cyber bullying has the worse it gets.
It is time to get the word out about deleting cyber bullying. If you see it happen don't sit back and just watch it happen, stand up and do the right thing by ending it. It is also important for us to be smarter about what we post on social media or any type of electronic communication. Amanda Todd knows first hand about this. She has been battling being cyber bullied for 16 years and the traumatic affects it had on her life still haunt her today, all because she posted something on the internet that she can never get back. These are all reason to delete cyber bullying. So what will you do the next time you see someone being cyber bullied?