May 2008 issue- Cyber Bullying

Technology has improved greatly in the past few years. These improvements have undeniably made things more convenient for us, but there are an increased in number of cyber bullying. It had got to the extend of people giving up their precious life to run away from threatening messages, private messages and posting emdarrassing video and photos.An example from the article is Gail Jones, who committed suicide after receiving 20 slient calls every 30 minutes. this shows how bullying also cause a lot of stress to the victims. Many of them end up resorting to suicide.

In fact, there has been many forms of bullying, such as playground bullies, road bullies and loan sharks harassing innocent households. But i believe that cyber bullying has most impact on the victim. It was because of the potential to reach the larger audience and more get to hear about it which increase the impact on the victims. Also, cyber bullying are hard to be discover as the victim are unlike to report them for fear of embarrassment and parents overreacting. It is through the internet which anyone can enter and use false identity to post anything. Thus, people find it difficult to solve the problem and time consuming for the victim to recover from the trama. In my opinion, the victim has taken the problem too seriously, for Jones case, if she could have just ignored the calls, she will not end up killing herself. It all depend on the individuals no matter if cyber or other forms of bullying happen to them.

Unfortunate things will happen to victims who cannot take the stress. For example, they end up sufffering in depression, some even end up taking their life. Bullying has existed for a long time in many different forms. But people had never end up doing drastic acts when they are being bullied? I feel that perhaps it is because people nowadays are being pampered too much, they was not able to handle stress and obstacles well and end up making the wrong decision by ending their life. I strongly believe that there are ways to prevent Internet users from cyber bullying and other forms of bullying from taking place. But people should be taught more on how to deal and cope with stress as stress can be in all forms and not only from bullying. Even if there are no bullying in any form, they will still face stress from work in the future and they will still end up doing drastic when they cannot cope with it.