A child comes home from school after a day filled with rejection. He is certain that there
is no one at school that likes him and what makes things worse is that the rejection doesn’t just
stop at school. It keeps going through text messages and posts to his social media pages. He
feels there is no escape. This child gets to a point where he is deciding whether his life's worth
living anymore. Nobody should ever have to get to this point in their life. Most adolescents can
handle the bullying that goes on within the school because they usually have a few friends that
support them but there is no one to support them when they are getting bullied online. In order
to prevent further bullying online adolescents need to be made aware …show more content…
Other ways that kids become involved in cyberbullying include: hunger for power,
giving into peer pressure, alleviating boredom, and thinking that everyone cyberbullies
(Gordon).
When adolescents get to the point in their lives when they are cyberbullying they are not
thinking about what the person on the the other side of their posts is feeling. The victim may be
experiencing hardships in their life that make being cyberbullied even worse than it really is.
This is why young people should be educated on the feeling of others. If kids were educated on
the feelings of their peers and what someone else may be going through in their lives there will
be less cyberbullying on the web.
Life has several challenges that aren’t meant for children to handle but more often than
not a child has to deal with certain issues. For example, a child may be in a home with an
abusive parent and he has to be the sole support for his family. He takes it upon himself to
become a protection for his other parent and make sure his younger siblings are doing what
they are supposed to be doing, so that they won’t get caught in the cross hairs. Essentially he
becomes the parent for his younger siblings and taking on this role comes with all the stress
is no one at school that likes him and what makes things worse is that the rejection doesn’t just
stop at school. It keeps going through text messages and posts to his social media pages. He
feels there is no escape. This child gets to a point where he is deciding whether his life's worth
living anymore. Nobody should ever have to get to this point in their life. Most adolescents can
handle the bullying that goes on within the school because they usually have a few friends that
support them but there is no one to support them when they are getting bullied online. In order
to prevent further bullying online adolescents need to be made aware …show more content…
Other ways that kids become involved in cyberbullying include: hunger for power,
giving into peer pressure, alleviating boredom, and thinking that everyone cyberbullies
(Gordon).
When adolescents get to the point in their lives when they are cyberbullying they are not
thinking about what the person on the the other side of their posts is feeling. The victim may be
experiencing hardships in their life that make being cyberbullied even worse than it really is.
This is why young people should be educated on the feeling of others. If kids were educated on
the feelings of their peers and what someone else may be going through in their lives there will
be less cyberbullying on the web.
Life has several challenges that aren’t meant for children to handle but more often than
not a child has to deal with certain issues. For example, a child may be in a home with an
abusive parent and he has to be the sole support for his family. He takes it upon himself to
become a protection for his other parent and make sure his younger siblings are doing what
they are supposed to be doing, so that they won’t get caught in the cross hairs. Essentially he
becomes the parent for his younger siblings and taking on this role comes with all the stress