Keiosha+Ravenell

Keiosha Ravenell P.G and Jeff Courge & Section June,4,2013

CYBERBULLYING  How do teens in America get cyber bullied and commit suicide? Teens are effected by cyber bullying because they might commits suicide. When you are being cyber bullied please don’t go straight to suicide please tell an adult and report that person to them to the police. Another thing there are 81% of teens that think they won’t get caught as easily as doing it face to face. Then there are 43% of teens that have been cyber bullied and 1 to 4 has been cyber bullied more than once.

What is cyber bullying?

Cyber bullying is a term specifically used for teens. It means to use the internet to harass, threaten, or negatively target another teen. When an adult cyber bully’s it is called cyber- harassment or cyber- stalking. On the site “[|Stop Cyber Bullying.org]” It say’s “ Children have killed each other and committed suicide after having been involved in a cyber-bullying incident.

Teens that are most likely to commit suicide.

In the case of a 12 year old girl police are investigating possible cyber bullying in the suicide of a Queens girl that is 12 years old. Last week a girl hung herself because she was cyber bullied. The one thing she left behind was a letter saying that she was sorry and how she was cyber bullied. Andrei Pott: Sexual assault, cyber bullying and By: Rahiel Tesfamariam. Audrie Pott committed suicide because she was sexual assaulted by three of her friends. After she was cyber bullied by them because, I guess, they put pictures up of her. So this all happened last year and it’s still going on today with different Teens. For example “Rehtaeh Parsons, the 17= year old Canadian”. Was also sexual assaulted and then cyber bullied and committed suicide.

There has been over half of teens that are adolescents. Teens have been bullied online, and about the same number has engaged in cyber bullying. There are only 1 to 10 teens that tells a parent if they have been a cyber-bully victim. Or if it’s to late they could commit suicide.

Why do teens cyber bully when it is so desteructive? Why do kids/teens cyber bully each other? Sometimes teens cyber bully because it is either to get more popular or lack of impulse control, frustration, anger, ego boosting, revenge, jealousy. Then need to teach someone a lesson, the desire to impress others.

There are four different types of cyber bullies <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">The first one is Power-Hungry. “ These cyber bullies do i <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5;">t to torment others or to enhance their view of them self’s.” The second one is the Revenge Of The Nerd ( A sub – type of power-hungry cyber bully). The third one is the Mean Girls that cyber bullies to help the to prop up herself. Or remind people of her own social standing. The forth one is Vengeful Angle cyber bullies that think they are righting wrongs and standing up for people. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">If you are a cyber-bully the solution needs to match your motive. If you are a nerd the bullies you might not think you’re doing anything wrong. You might think you are doing things right if you were someone who was bullied. The Vengeful Angles need to know that you can’t fight bullying with bullying. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">Why do mean girls cyber bully? <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Mean Girl’s one reason why means girls cyber bully is because they are bored or they are looking for entertainment. “It is <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">largely ego-based and the most immature of all cyber-bully types <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5;">“They maybe were bullying other girls (Most Frequently) or boys (Less frequently).