Cyber Bullying

Cyber bullying is when someone is being bullied online by other people. They can
be with words, videos, or photos.

When Amanda Todd was in 7th grade, she met a man in an

online chatroom, and he convinced her to flash her breast at him. A year later, the
man contacted her on Facebook, and told her to put on a show for him, or he was
going to release the photo that she took for him. She refused and the man released
the photos, and they went viral. Other kids at her school saw the pictures, and
started to bully her. She became depressed, developed anxiety, and began to use
drugs and alcohol. A year later she transferred school, but the man created a new
Facebook, and used her picture as his profile picture. Her new friends started to
ignore her, talk about her, and bullied her. She talked about her feelings in a video
on YouTube. She started to cut herself. Amanda changed schools again, and a boy
started flirting with her, but the girls from the first school came to her new one, and
beat her up, while people watched and filmed it. She went home and tried to
commit suicide by drinking bleach. She moved to another city, but the bullying
continued. Therapy, combined with anti-depressants, did little to help her
depression and anxiety, and she continued to cut herself and attempted suicide
again. In September 2012 Amanda wrote her story on flashcards and recorded it on
YouTube. Amandas body was found at her home in British Columbia, Canada on the
10th of October, 2012. She was 16.

Tyler Clementi was a shy 18 year old Rutgers University

freshman with a passion for playing the violin. A man had entered his dorm, and

sexually assaulted him. The man had taped it without Clementi knowing, and
Dharun Ravi and Molly Wei, some of his fellow first years, posted the video.
Clementi jumped to his death from the George Washington Bridge on September 22,
2010. His last words, posted onto his Facebook profile about 10 minutes before he
died, were: "Jumping off the gw bridge sorry." Ravi and Wei were charged with
invasion of privacy.

Grace McComas, a 15-year-old Glenelg High School

sophomore from Baltimore, whose favorite color was blue, took her life on Easter
Sunday, to end the pain of a cyberbullying campaign against her. According to her
father, Chris McComas the cyberbullying had lasted for months and was carefully
documented by the family. As blue was her favorite color, a social media event
blue4grace was begun by friends and quickly went viral. The mourners at her
funeral wore blue nail polish, blue jewelry, and blue dress shirts.