Siyu Song
Professor Glover
English 113A
20 November 2015
Stop Cyber Bullying and Make World A Better Place Internet networking have turned the world into another generation that increased the rate of invention and knowledge acquiring. In the Internet age making connections between people is faster and easier than ever. But the cost of the networking is also greater; not going out and being anonymous online can do a lot. Cyber bullying is one then and it has become a side effect of Internet and social media. Cyber bullying is a more serious problem than people thought, and by stopping cyber bullying we can make the world a better place. The consequences of cyber bullying are real, brutal and ruthless, it can ruin people’s reputation and life, cause from mental health problems to suicide; to make world a better place cyber bullying can be stopped by compassion empathy and caution.
Cyber bullying is a common practice in many nations and have led to many disasters. Internet brought home many good interventions but this one was the wrong one in the generation. It is believed that a million number of people get exposed by cyber bullying each day. The fact that the cyber bullying has gone far in affecting our young generation it unstoppable. It is the action that we can all take so that we could stop these actions from happening again in the future. Cyber bullying have raised fighting actions among those individuals who are affected by the action. In addition, cyber bullying have increased the emotional hurt among many people since it is accompanied by stress and depression. Although more and more facts shows that cyber bullying has been a problem that affect people’s life but there are a lot of people refused to admits the consequences of Cyber bullying and underestimate the damage of cyber bullying. Some people believe that deleting the social media account or closing the computer can stopped cyber bullying. There are other people who claim that some people especially celebrities, deserve to be cyber bullied, because they did something wrong. Also, people think that the trauma the victims of cyber bullying have been through isn’t the cause of suicide; they did it because they don’t have enough confidence in themselves. They believe other people’s judgments instead of believing themselves. But the truth of cyber bullying is beyond above. Cyber bullying is a serious social issue and it’s time people need to face it. The meta-analysis done by Netherlands show that for the first time, cyber bullying has already leading to suicidal ideations more significantly than offline bullying. The fact that the cyber bullying has gone far in affecting our young generation it unstoppable. In September 2014 UNICEF released a report saying that in France 12.5% of 6-18 year-olds have experienced being attacked online. The statistic shows that especially for teenager’s cyber bullying for the fact is a serious problem. Teenagers are the common people who are readily affected by the cyberbullying because they don’t have the experience to deal with it. And those who choose to end their lives because of cyber bullying are getting closer and closer to everyone’s life. Sometimes word can take people’s life just like bullets. It was 2011 Tyler Clementi was a freshman New Jersey's Rutgers University in New Jersey. Two students secretly installed a video camera in Tyler’s dorm room and recorded while Tyler being intimate with another man. They exposure the video to the Internet after the recording then the ridicule and cyber bullying started. Exposing of a video clip makes the theme of that video to start trending to many people in the social media. Due to unbearable pressure, Tyler Clementi left last words on Facebook, and then commits suicide by jumping from the George Washington Bridge into the river, when this happened he was only 18 years old. Tragic cause by cyber bullying happens all around the world and it can change people’s life path. For example, He Chen, an actor in China. When he first graduate from acting school he couldn’t find a job as an actor, his girlfriend who has been together with him since high school supported him. Then he plays a part in a comedy become famous. After a relationship of 14 years He Chen get married with his girlfriend, he even wrote a book about their relationship, how she support him when nobody believes in him. The audience sees him as a nice man and a good husband that got him in a popular reality show, during the show the paparazzo got him cheating. The high school student Lu Cao makes a common on the incident on He Chen’s social media, she said, “I won’t judge you, but please quit the beloved show.” And got reply by the actor himself said, “Okay” just this one word got her extra attention. All her personal information and her parent’s work place have been posted on the Internet. She forces to close the account of her social media and dropped out of high school because the mental stress she has suffered. That was the year she supposes to go college, by dropping of high school means she give up the opportunity to go to college. Her parent’s life has been disturbed and she loses the chance to go to college for her life. Unlike normal people, celebrities suffer from cyber bullying almost every day. The year 1995, Monica Lewinsky became the first victim of cyber bullying because of her incident with the present of the United States of America back then. Lewinsky was an intern in White House the affair between her and the US President Back then Bill Clinton's sex scandal exposure. Although there was no social media at that time there was still Internet comments and emails. According to Lewinsky at Ted Talk, 20 years later she still can’t have a life like a normal person. We all make mistakes in our lives, and we lost good opportunities, we lost our loves ones. It is important that we take control of the actions and the activities that we engage in so that we mind about other people’s feelings. Every decision we make already come with consequences. We don’t have to add insult to injury. And judge other person doesn’t make any of us a better person. Researcher Brené Brown said, "Shame can't survive empathy." Write post with cautious even it’s anonymous. Verify the news before forward or make a comment. And more importantly, never give people’s personal information online. Furthermore don’t judge people whatever we want just because it’s anonyms. Jimmy Kimmel’s talk show has a part called Mean Tweets. It provides the best example of words can hurt, and everyone’s word matters. People won’t say these things in front of other people, because it hurt other people’s feelings and it’s hurt the same way online. Cyber bullying have raised fighting actions among those individuals who are affected by the action. As we all know Internet is nothing new to us, but nobody should being attacked on all sides by the Internet. Every day we receive one piece of information after the other. That’s why we should spend more effort on checking the authenticity of the news that we pass on, stop passing on or creating that news after earful deliberation. People need to know that they need to cherish the lives of others. Because the invented of Internet has the good cause, to make the people’s life consoling and make world a better place. We shouldn’t use it to attacked people. The consequences of cyber bullying are real, brutal and ruthless; it can ruin people’s reputation and life, cause from mental health problems to suicide. To make the world a better place we need to stop cyber bullying, have compassion empathy and responsibility when people post online. Language should not become a deadly weapon and the Internet should not be to cause confusion but rather to make the world a better place. Use language well makes words positive.

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