Binalfew Mecuriaw
EN 102
Prof. Nuredinoski
5/13/13
Cyber-bulling In School Children

According to the an author, Zetter, Kim, a neighborhood women setup an account in MySpace anonymously to contact one of her daughter’s classmates. The goal of the woman was to find out why the girl did not go along with her daughter. After she set up the account, the women started contacting her daughter’s classmate. The girl thought the account was for a 16 years old boy. She did not realize that she was contacting her schoolmate’s mother because the woman created the account anonymously. After they started contacting to each other, the woman started abusing the girl with her repeated and mean messages. She started insulting the girl via MySpace repeatedly. Finally, the girl was found hanged behind her house.
We all remember that when we were in elementary and high schools, teachers would have to stand on the play ground during break time and monitor the bullies, who would try to take another child’s lunch money, or to take a note being passed around in the classroom that would read something like “I will see you on the play ground after school.” We all passed through this kind of bulling. This kind of bulling used to be performed by physically bigger students and it was not also that much serious.
However, over the past few years, with the improvement and tremendously changed of networking technology, the way of life and interaction among people has been altered completely in both negative and positive ways. For example, it has greatly impacted the education industry, making hard-to-find information more easily accessible. Also, technology has allowed communication to all parts of the world readily available. Although the overwhelming increase of technology throughout the world has done a great deal of good job, it has also brought many burning issues such as