Studies Suggest Cyber Bullying is on the Rise

eSchool News. (2007). Studies Suggest Cyber Bullying is on the Rise. eschoolnews. Retrieved March 18, 2010 from http://www.eschoolnews.com/2007/12/04/studies-suggest-cyber-bullying-is-on-the-rise/

This article was all about cyber bullying. One study found out that 2/3 adolescents have been cyber bullied at least once. That is a really high number. Another study found out that only 1/10 adolescents have ever been cyber bullied. It all depends on how you define what cyber bullying is. It also depends on what the adolescent thinks. Some students that are bullied online are not really affected by it. It doesn't really bother them. To some students though, it can bring some serious damages.

In 2006 a 13 year old girl committed suicide from cyber bullying. She was communicating with this guy online who would always flirt with her. One day he decided that he was not going to speak with her anymore because he found out she was mean. This really devastated the girl and she ended up committing suicide. As it turns out, there was no boy. It was a mom of some other girl from school who was only pretending to be a boy flirting with her. No charges were pressed against the mom because there was no law at the time that she broke. After this girl's death though, they have made cyber bullying a misdemeanor in the state of Missouri.

I find this article really shocking. I personally have never experienced cyber bullying at all. This is so sad that this has to happen to people so young. Middle school age kids are going through all different kinds of emotions and to be bullied online only makes life tough for them. Also the mom that pretended to be that boy is horrible. Why would a mother ever want to do that? That is so childish and mean. This is a big problem and we need to figure out ways to try to stop this bullying.