Cyber Bullying: What is it and how harmful is it

Cyber Bullying is when someone continuously harasses another person through online media, whether through social media, email, or blogging. The most common place for Cyber Bullying to occur is on Facebook, the social media. On Facebook, consisting of middle or high school students,  kids will post rude comments about each other, send cruel messages, or post embarrassing picture of someone else. In middle and high school kids aren’t mentally developed and are always looking for new ways to harass each other, these kids will use any tool available to bully the outcasts. The bullied eventually begin to feel like there is no escape from their suffering and use extreme measures like suicide and shootings to remove the pain of loneliness. Bullying is the cause of almost all school shootings, not violent video games, and causes most of the underage kid’s suicides. Bullying face to face usually involves pushing, verbal attacks, and inflicting significant pain. There is no doubt that face to face bullying has caused a lot of pain but the question is whether Cyber Bullying is as harmful to a person. There is no straight forward answer, but no, Cyber Bullying is not as harmful as face to face. Face to face bullying is more personal than Cyber Bullying. Face to face bullying leaves the victim petrified and unable to respond because bully is usually larger than his victim, anyone can talk back to a bully over the internet but it takes real inner strength to stand up to a bully in person. In face to face bullying kids usually use physical means to keep the victims around, but with Cyber Bullying the victim can simply block his/her harasser with a click of a button. Cyber Victims don’t actually have to listen to a bully unlike in face to face bullying. The only thing people can do over the internet is post embarrassing pictures and talk behind someone’s back (people do not need the internet to talk behind someone’s back). Also Cyber Bullying doesn’t have any physical aspect to it; you can’t beat someone up through the internet, it’s an attempt on your emotions and it can all be ignored through a single button. My conclusion is that although Cyber Bullying is extremely rude, but it doesn’t do as much harm as face to face because face to face bullying has caused a plenty of deaths through suicide and school shootings.

Ps. Anyone who bullies anyone should look at their own lives and figure out why they need to hurt someone else to make themselves feel good. These actions will only hurt you later down the road when it becomes a part of your personality.