Cyber-bullying

Cyber-bullying

- theguardian, 2014

                 Sometimes, actions speak louder than words. In this case, its your actions on Social Media like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc. Today's internet is so powerful that your actions can catch the attention of a lot of different people like politicians, celebrities, and artists of different genres. But one of the main problems of Social Media is the man opportunities of cyber-bullying.With 4,507 cases of cyberbullying in 2012-13 and is increasingly contacted about self-harm and racist cyberbullying, many victims are increasing every day. Here's my few reasons why it should not be tolerated.

 - nbcnews, 2017

                 Cyber-bullying leads to suicide; including those who are very sensitive. As what I've found in sciencedaily.com, Children and young people under 25 who are victims of cyberbullying are more than twice as likely to self-harm and enact suicidal behavior, according to a new study. The research also suggests the perpetrators themselves are at higher risk of experiencing suicidal thoughts and behaviors as well.So imagine what will happen in the if instead of one person, its a bunch of people doing it against one person in Social media. The unlucky victims tried to ignore them, but they cant do because he/she has been overpowered already. It happen when Mallory Grossman, a 12-yrs old girl in New Jersey, ended her own life in June 14, 2017 because of her classmates both in real life and online, So the incident ended with the parents of the victim sueing the school for not taking care of the problem. Just remember that everyone has a limit and if that person's limit has been reached, it has already been broken (what I meant is their mind).

 - twitter, 2016 

                 The second is that they criticized one's traits, like their gender, race, religion, or in other words, "racism". Imagine if Hitler is still alive but as a huge group aimed to follow what they believed? Yeah, like that. Racism is still going on today and it is happening everywhere including the internet. According theconversation.com, Over the past two decades, cyber-bullying has become a major focus for parents, educators and researchers. Stopbullying.gov lists several effects of cyber-bullying, including depression, anxiety and decreased academic achievement.  Like what happened to Normani Kordei of the band "Fifth Harmony" in august 2016, she logged out of twitter because of the barrage of bashes she got from it. Thankfully her friends from the bands and her followers help her regained her confidence and heal from the racial posts from the others. If one would were to post their opinion in the feed, be prepared for your explanation. 

- deadline, 2016

                  The third and last one is that it would ruins one's reputation. Who knew a simple misunderstanding could fool a lot of people in what they've just believed. I searched  incyberbullying.org, the young generation needs to think about their online reputation as early as possible, the same thing goes to to already-famous ones in Social Media. If this were to happen to a celebrity, that would greatly affect their reputation with rumors and accusations. Many reputation were already damaged like 2016 "Ghostbusters" co-star Leslie Jones but she recovered quickly. 

- nbcnews, 2017

                  So therefore, Cyber-bullying should not be tolerated because of its effects to those who could not resist to it. People should've think of what they've could caused if that tap of a button or key and second, why they didn't think second thoughts about what they have done? Is it just for satisfaction? Or is it for something else? I end my matrix.