Throughout my years in grade school, I was always ignorant enough to dismiss cyberbullying as a small problem being met with exaggeration. I always thought, "Just ignore the 'bully' and/or turn the computer off." This instilled belief resided within me until the problem of cyberbullying personally affected me with a life-changing experience, near the end of my tenth grade year.
On the evening of May 13, 2011, I logged into Facebook and posted a status update that expressed my stress over finals. Minutes later, a classmate posted a comment, under my status update, exclaiming, “NOBODY LIKES YOU!!” Surprised and embarrassed, I sent her a message asking her for a reason for her comment. Minutes later, she replied, unveiling her anger towards me for reporting her boyfriend, a few days earlier, to our school's vice-principal for constantly giving me a hard time. Her response was shortly followed by messages featuring a vast amount of verbal abuse that successfully scarred my emotions to a degree. …show more content…
Clicking on the notification links led me to her status updates that she had tagged me in. These status updates were copied-and-pasted words from the messages that she sent to me just minutes earlier. These status updates were soon showered with “likes” from many of our classmates, including classmates whom I have mistakenly considered as friends, cursing me with the emotions of feeling incredibly betrayed and
On the evening of May 13, 2011, I logged into Facebook and posted a status update that expressed my stress over finals. Minutes later, a classmate posted a comment, under my status update, exclaiming, “NOBODY LIKES YOU!!” Surprised and embarrassed, I sent her a message asking her for a reason for her comment. Minutes later, she replied, unveiling her anger towards me for reporting her boyfriend, a few days earlier, to our school's vice-principal for constantly giving me a hard time. Her response was shortly followed by messages featuring a vast amount of verbal abuse that successfully scarred my emotions to a degree. …show more content…
Clicking on the notification links led me to her status updates that she had tagged me in. These status updates were copied-and-pasted words from the messages that she sent to me just minutes earlier. These status updates were soon showered with “likes” from many of our classmates, including classmates whom I have mistakenly considered as friends, cursing me with the emotions of feeling incredibly betrayed and