Cyber Suicide

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As technology become the center of the 21st century, so has the potential for the misuse of such modern comforts. This generation has been named the Internet age. The Internet has made socializing simpler, accessing information across the globe has been made easier, and locating people has made lives less complicated. Yet, if you look at the Internet age in a different light you’d realize it has bred many immoral practices as well. While some use the Internet for gaining information, others use it for destructing and ruining lives. Some Internet users gain pleasure from intruding Internet privacy of individuals and seek enjoyment from breaching Internet security. Cyber bullying is the name given to these activities.
Cyber bullying is using technology to threaten, insult, or harass an individual. Cyber bullying practices range from simple activities like continuously bombering someone with emails right up to sexual abuse. Passing abusive remarks about some one making him/her the subject of ridicule in online discussion also classifies as cyber bullying.
“Cyber bullying is one of those things you need to take seriously.” Said Amber Boddie a student at Constitution High School “I was never cyber bullied but I heard many stories about people being bullied on Myspace and Facebook.” If you have been watching the news or reading the newspaper than you know about Myspace and Facebook. While both sites are very beneficial there are several problems that rise on these sites. Cyber bullying is very common on Myspace. Hurtful blogs that has the sole purpose of hurting someone spread like wildfire once someone sees it on a person’s profile. Soon everyone in the school has reads the blog and joins in with the abuse.





“Bullying can lead to death,” said Shaquille Rankin a sophomore at Constitution High School. There have been a number of suicides that came from this thing called “Cyber Bullying”. A Missouri mother had to bury her thirteen-year-old daughter Megan Meier who committed suicide last October after receiving cruel messages on Myspace. Tina Meier (Megan’s mother) found her daughter hanging in her bedroom closet. Tina said she noticed the change in her daughter’s behavior before she committed suicide. Megan walked around the house sad and depressed all the time, rarely talking. Tina thought it was a phase her daughter was going through and she’d get over the explicit emails she was receiving, but Megan never did. The emails made Meagan so depressed that she reacted in killing herself.
Cyber bullying should be taken very seriously. If your child is being bullied you should take it in consideration. Cyber bullying has become very common in the 21st century, activities like continuously bombering someone with emails right up to sexual abuse. To help children survive cyber bullying there are many clubs and hotlines. Parents should be aware and question your kids to see if they are being bullied. Cyber Bullying can lead up to death so please be alert, because you can be a victim of
“CYBER SUICIDE!”