“Maybe you should try not eating for a few weeks”,” No, she should probably try a few months lol.” That is the direct message I received by anonymous people in the 6th grade that changed my life. Everyone has been bullied. If you claim you haven’t been, you’re lying. Prior generations just had bullying in person, face-to-face, and had a place to call safe. Today’s youth doesn’t have that safe haven. Their tormented not only in person but now at all times of the day no matter if they’re on different sides of the world, you can always fall victim to this new epidemic: cyberbullying. Social media is a shadowed plight that is poisoning today’s society due to the fact that it created a new silent attacker: cyberbullying. Cyberbullying has created
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In the case study done by Eric Rice, he not only surveyed the common population but also did a separate survey of students who identified as LGBTQ. According to Webster Dictionary, LGBTQ is an acronym that stands for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and queer, and is used to designate a community of people whose sexual or gender identities can create shared political and social concerns. The study showed that, “1 in 3 students who identified as LGBQ [Lesbian, Gay, Bi-sexual or questioning] reported some type of cyber bullying victimization during the previous year, and LGBQ youths were 4.6 times more likely that their heterosexual peers to experience cyber bully victimization” (Rice e70). The LGBTQ community faces more cyberbullying than the “regular” community strictly because they’re expressing how they feel and being open and honest about what they feel. We live in America, “Land of the free,” but people being attacked mercifully for just identifying as who they are doesn’t seem very free to me and probably doesn’t seem very free to them either. “Almost 80% of our 13-year-olds agreed that you can tell how popular a peer is by looking at his or her social media profile, and about the same number indicated that their social media profiles accurately portrayed their own popularity” (Underwood 4). Popularity is now based upon a false sense of reality. Someone is no longer popular if they’re nice or outgoing or a good student, they’re popular based upon how many people like their Instagram picture, comment how pretty you are, retweet your tweet, or share your Facebook
In the case study done by Eric Rice, he not only surveyed the common population but also did a separate survey of students who identified as LGBTQ. According to Webster Dictionary, LGBTQ is an acronym that stands for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and queer, and is used to designate a community of people whose sexual or gender identities can create shared political and social concerns. The study showed that, “1 in 3 students who identified as LGBQ [Lesbian, Gay, Bi-sexual or questioning] reported some type of cyber bullying victimization during the previous year, and LGBQ youths were 4.6 times more likely that their heterosexual peers to experience cyber bully victimization” (Rice e70). The LGBTQ community faces more cyberbullying than the “regular” community strictly because they’re expressing how they feel and being open and honest about what they feel. We live in America, “Land of the free,” but people being attacked mercifully for just identifying as who they are doesn’t seem very free to me and probably doesn’t seem very free to them either. “Almost 80% of our 13-year-olds agreed that you can tell how popular a peer is by looking at his or her social media profile, and about the same number indicated that their social media profiles accurately portrayed their own popularity” (Underwood 4). Popularity is now based upon a false sense of reality. Someone is no longer popular if they’re nice or outgoing or a good student, they’re popular based upon how many people like their Instagram picture, comment how pretty you are, retweet your tweet, or share your Facebook