Throwback to Earlier This Semester: part 1

I remember earlier int he semester during one of the Edmodo article assignments, there was a section o the whole ask.fm suicides and I started thinking about how cyber bullying occurs. I think a big reason why cyber bullying occurs is because people our age now and days care so much about what other people think about them. People want to know what other people think. And social media is a great way to put things out there. Social media is the perfect platform to be exposed for a variety of things. And when people get exposed, they cling onto it and want to know more. They want to know if whatever was revealed about them, is what other people really think about them. For example, if person A goes on Facebook and says person B is a slut, but person A has never done anything sexual ever, then person A will want to know if that's how other people view her. Then person C and D and E all pitch in and agree with the notion that person A is a slut. Now person A doesn't know what to do because everyone thinks they are a slut but they really aren't. I think this is the main reason why cyber bullying happens because the victim gets sucked into believing a string of lies. I think it also has to do with a person's self esteem. How they view themselves is critical because if they don't think much of themselves then they are going to let the hateful comments get to them.