Cyber bullying May 2008.

This article talks about the dangers of the cyber bullying. Cyber bullying cases is increasing in numbers in years. It includes sending threatening messages, displaying private messages and posting embarrassing video footage.Cyber bullying is a much more serious case compared to schoolyard bullying. As school yard bullying happens only during the lunchbreak and the schooldays. But cyber bullying would be there 24/7 as long as the internet connection is present in the society. It would not stop. There is also another reason why cyber bullying is lethal. There is a benifit of cyber bullying compared to school yard bullying. It does not inflict any physical pain. But the victim would experience emotional pain. Which could be far more worse than the physical pain. As emotional pain would take days, months and years to heal. Or to make the matter worse it would be permanent. Victims have not been able to heal from the emotional pain because they would feel embarassed or shy to talk to someone about the incident. They keep their feelings to themselves and one day they could not take it anymore they would take the alternative way to solve the problem. So that is the reason why many victims of the cyber bullying cases would rather commit suicide to solve the problems.

We could see that somehow cyber bullying have became a trend in the society. Nowadays we could just use the search engine and we can find many videos that are out to embarrass the victims online. The cyber bullies might have done that to relieve their anger. As on the internet nowadays we could remain anonymous in whatever we do. So when people feel angry they might go on the net to look for some target. They are not afraid of the consquence as the victims would not be able to track them down so easily. The children are the main victims of the cyber bullying cases as we can see. The main reason is that there are lot of teenagers addicted to the online gaming world. The online gaming world could help them to make friends that is including the good and the bad ones. So when the bad friends starts the cyber bullying and the victims can't take the insults they began to feel angry or even emotionally hurt.


In my opinion cyber bullying is definitetly a very serious matter and it can't be overlooked. The increasing in the numbers of the cyber bullying clearly shows us that kids nowadays are somehow 'addicted' to it. As they might think that it is just a joke and anyone could take jokes. But they do not know the heavy consequences behind it. They will not understand how the victim would feel. So in order to solve the problem. we ourselve have to practise a sense of self-discipline or self control. If everyone would to have self-control and stop themselves from posting anonymous message or finding ways to embarass the victims online. Less people would to get hurt and less people would commit suicide and it would be ableto solve the whole lot of the problem. Parents should also play a part in this too although they can't help to reduce the cases of cyber bullying. They could see signs of their children being under cyber bullying. They could sit down and talk to their kids about the problems in a more relaxing way. This could reduce the death rate caused by cyber bullying. so cyber bullying can be stop with the help of everyone.

Lai Jian Hsien (29) 3E