Cyber bullying is an interesting topic. There are many people who doubt it's validity as "real bullying" and many who think it is just as bad as face-to-face bullying and even worse. I personally don't think cyber bullying should even exist. Unlike face-to-face physical and verbal confrontations, cyber bullying can be ended at any moment. Having had friends that experienced very real physical bullying and having to physically confront someone myself, I just can't understand how people can be brought to suicide by something as easy to stop as cyber bullying. All the person has to do is either abandon social networking accounts or delete them. The key issue here is that cyber bullying is most common around younger, teenage users. Most teenagers feel a need to connect to people, to be part of any group no matter how painful. I noticed this stark transition from middle school to high school, where everyone was in a distinct group during lunch. This dependency makes it really hard for teenagers to give up social networking. I don't think that the challenge of willpower to delete an account that people face is enough for me to care about cyber bullying at all.
But the fact of the matter is as I said previously, teenagers are mentally weak to these sorts of things. Posts from the social site Ask.fm drove 7 teens to suicide. That is just how it is and I understand it is sad, but I still stand by what I said.
http://www.psychologicalscience.org/index.php/news/releases/social-acceptance-and-rejection-the-sweet-and-the-bitter.html
http://nobullying.com/stories-of-7-teen-suicides-because-of-ask-fm-bullying/
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