Cyber bullying

Cyber bullying has become a major issue in our modern day society. With websites such as Facebook and Myspace and instant messaging applications such as MSN, Yahoo! Messenger and Google Talk, the opportunities for cyber bullying have expanded. The assembly we has on cyber bullying opened my eyes to how serious the issue is. Law suits have been filed between victims and cyber bullies, while a young girl actually committed suicide because of cyber bullying. Unfortunately, I don’t think many of us Ward students took the assembly seriously. I was extremely angry and disappointed hearing many students snickering and not even listening to what the speaker was trying to say. They might think that the assembly was just another lecture that wasted their time, but it’s an important problem that everyone should be informed of so that we can prevent cyber bullying.

We consider cyber bullying to be, well, bullying in cyberspace. Cyber bullying occurs when a person deliberately and repeatedly harassed, threatened, or basically targeted by another through the Internet. Cyber bullying usually happens between classmates, friends, and can start from childhood to teenage years.

I personally don’t think there is any punishment that is appropriate enough for cyber bullying. No matter how you punish a cyber bully, they will find other ways to get harass or threaten their target. Punishing a bully by telling them they can’t go on the computer is pointless. Of course they’re still going to use the computer, despite the fact they were told not to. I think the only way to prevent cyber bullying or punish a cyber bully is to take away computers, but we can’t do that since computers have become essential to our everyday lives. So, in conclusion, I don’t think a proper punishment has yet been created for cyber bullies.