Cyberbullying: The Controversy Topic Of Concern

Today, I am writing you about the topic of cyberbullying. What I am arguing about cyberbullying, is that cyberbullying should not be a legitimate topic of concern. I have noticed that people have recently been talking about this as an extreme issue and, in many cases, I have seen that it is something very minimal. It is important to be dismissed as an offense because many harmless people with non malicious intent have been punished with anything from small punishments to, in more serious cases, being taken into police custody.

The definition of bullying is ‘using superior strength or influence to intimidate (someone), typically to force him or her to do what one wants.’ This is different from cyberbullying because cyberbullying is done over electronic devices, where no one can have superior strength or be able force you into doing something. No one on the internet …show more content…
In addition, because words can be interpreted different ways, the sender may not have meant to say something harmful to someone, but if the recipient takes if offensively, you can get into trouble simply because of how someone else took non harmful words. Words mean nothing unless the person receiving these words make them mean something. No one can harm someone electronically unless the recipient of mean messages decides that the person or people sending these messages matter, otherwise they are just random people saying mean things which you can ignore. If you are bullied at school, unless you move schools, you cannot escape. But, if you are being bullied online, you can remove all of these people from socializing with you by blocking them and then you have just ended the