The Rise Of Cyber Bullying adapted from READER DIGEST, MAY 2008
With the advance in technology, more devices are created. And today, we have computers and Internets. Internet is indeed a enjoyable place for surfing or leisure needs. We access to online communications like MSN and ICQ etc everyday. But these are also the places where young teenage tends to get cyber bullied by various people.
Online communications are dangerous in some ways, where people may get more aggressive and daring than their actual selves. Sometimes I wonder why some people like to have revenge on their nemesis by publishing things online that hurt them.Don’t the bully have his or her own conscience?
Cyber bullying has its consequences. One will be the victim committing suicide.
I feel sympathetic to those parents that had lost their children to a group of cowards who make themselves unknown. They should be punished one day. In Singapore, quite a number of cyber bully cases have arise.
In my opinion, family and school should be the ones educating a particular person on cyber bullying. At home, there ought to be at least an adult watching over the child when he or she is engaged in online communications. In school, if the teenage is being cyber bullied, he or she should consult teachers or best, the counselors. At least this would help them share their worries and not to have the thought of death.
Most teenage think that adults do not enter cyber world, therefore thinking that they will not be caught cyber bullying. I hope that there will be lesser of such cases happening again.