Cyber Bulling Effects

Introduction to Cyber Bulling
Just a small introduction on Cyber Bullying. What is Cyber Bullying? Well, Cyber bullying is defined as using the computer or other electronic devices to intimidate, threaten or humiliate another individual person, Cyber bullying can happen in many different areas such as e-mails, Web sites, text messaging, cell phones, three-way calling, video,msn, blogs and any other form of communication that occurs online. Sometimes Cyber bullies(One who bully victims), but not always, know their victims in real life.

Effect on the Victims
Now this is the main focus on my topic, why does Cyber Bullying lead Victims to suicide? I was quite stunned by these stories of When Cyber-Bullying Turns Deadly that said of a girl who committed suicide after being cyber bullied. I was quite amazed that such a things like cyber bully could makes one end their life just like that. So I decided to research into it, and found out that most people (those victims) who committed suicide were people who takes thing much emotionally, and tends to take it upon their heart on what others says to them. This is a link to a video that shows the victims that were Cyber Bullied.
Video Links

This talk about some girls who has been cyber bullied. One of girl developed this fear of going to school because of her ex-school friends who bullied her online, and even over the phone because she spends load of times on the internet and mobile phone. Before she was being cyber bully, she was a top student in school, a girl who likes to attend school. But after being bullied online, she started to run away from school and obtain bad result. So through this video I have learn that being cyber-bullied can totally change your life.

Ways to Prevent Cyber Bullying
The first step is to stop responding to the cyber bully. Do not reply to their emails, posts, or text messages. This is what the bully want. They want you to engage with them and then manipulate you into responding them and if you respond in any way that is emotional or lets them know that they are getting to you and are able to make you upset it only encourages the cyber bully to continue doing it.

Second step is that, whatever the cyber bully message you, keep it! Do not delete it, because every message send over the Internet could be traced, and you can give it to the police to investigate on because laws regarding bullying and cyber bullying are finally being passed.

You can also visit this website to have more information on how to prevent cyber bullying.
StopCyberBullying

Reflections
So after researching on it, I found out there are different forms of cyber bullying, examples like SMS, Email, Games and etc. I also kind of understand why some victims committed suicide after being bullied, because they were always constantly being aimed at.

If I’m not wrong, Singapore does not face such problems with cyber bullying that lead to suicide yet. Mostly because Singaporean are used to being flamed by others be it in schools or Internet. So let hope that Singapore will not have such cases even in near future.