Week Six – Social Media and Cyber Bullying (CS2)

During this week in media Reece and I have created a new storyboard. Our new story is about a boy in class who is bored and decides to draw a picture which then comes to life. We have taken half the shots and are almost finished our new story.

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http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/07/23/2633775.htm

^^ In the link above the article is about a 14-year old girl who committed suicide because of cyber bullying.

My opinion on this article is that it is horribly sad that this little girl, hardly seen the world and had a life still ahead of her, decided to kill herself because of the comments and posts she had been getting from people online.

The people who did this obviously knew that they where upsetting her because they just kept doing it. If they knew when enough was enough then maybe the situation would have had a different outcome. I bet that they never meant for something like this to happen that they were ‘joking around’ but how could that be the case when it was so continuous? Now after hearing what she has done to herself I’d imagine they would be so embarrassed and ashamed, upset and sorry. Well it’s too late now, but it wasn’t a few days or posts ago. They should have thought about this before they even wrote the first comment.

Firstly by posting those comments and writing those things about her, they knew that it would upset her or at least that’s what they were aiming for. Why would you say things like that on the internet? Because your scared and defenseless when it comes to reality? Why would you say it at all? Sometimes those things can be to much for some people and they might not be able to handle it.

By taunting anyone (through the internet, behind backs, face to face) you don’t know how they will react or how it will truly affect them. Sometimes people act strong although they are dieing inside with every word you may say, even though they are trying to ignore it and not think about it at all.

It was the wrong thing to do in the first place, and the fact that they continued for this long to get to this point shows that the people who done this are cowards and insecure. They need to put someone else down in order for them to feel good about themselves.

The words you say to people could follow them around everywhere they go like in this video ^^making them feel worthless all the time. There is no need for your opinion on someone else if it’s got nothing to do with you.

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