Suicide of Megan Meier

Kirandeep Kaur Sidhu Dr. Harper English 100 22 October 2017 An article review of Alisdair A. Gillespie’s “Cyber-bullying and Harassment of Teenagers: The Legal Response” Alisdair A. Gillespie’s article “Cyber-bullying and Harassment of Teenagers: The Legal Response” examines the extent of the cyberbullying and gives the legal response to tackle these problems. By the use of technology, anyone can threaten to an individual by sending the SMS and may use the picture of an individual for the…

Bullying in the World I am sure that people are aware that not everyone gets a great start to life, like Jeanette Walls in The Glass Castle. Many people across the world struggle with all kinds of hardships. Others think they understand these hardships, but I believe that no one can ever truly understand until they go through it themselves. People who grow up in a better situation could never really know the feeling of being in such a poor situation. One of the major causes of these hardships…

Individuals should be prosecuted for statements mad on social media. Some bullies know their targets, some of the cyberbullies are teens, and social media can affect our brain’s. To start of, some kids and teenagers have been victims of cyberbullying and a offender. In “What is Cyberbullying?” it states,”10% of youth ages 11-18 have been both a victim and offender” and “ 84% of cyberbullies report to know their target”. Most cyberbullies know who they are going to bully and some of them are…

Megan Meier was a 13 year old teenager living in Missouri. Meier wasn’t enjoying a normal teenage life filled with friends. Instead, Meier battled loneliness and depression because she was obese and for years had tried to lose weight. She also had attention deficit disorder. Meier’s dark and depressed days were finally over when she made a friend through her MySpace account named Josh. Josh was the most friendly, and cute boy she ever met. Moreover, he was the first boy who called her pretty. As…

Cyberbullying is the use of electronics to bully other people in a harmful way, like sending threatening messages. It is a worldwide issue experienced by many people of all ages, however, it normally occurs at around adolescence, yet there have been cases in which adults have cyberbullied other adults. Types of cyberbullying include cyber stalking, cyber harassment, cyberthreats, and sextortion. Cases like the Amanda Todd case involved all four. Cyberbullying is a heavily thought about topic due…

 Cyber Bullying : Cyber bullying is bullying that place using electronic technology for example computers, cell phones and tablets as well as other communicating tools including text message, social media sites for example twitter, facebook etc. Things like sending messages, posting pictures or messages about the others in blogs or on websites, using another person’s name to spread rumours or lies about someone else, in other words, bullying happens everywhere. Due to rapid development of…

What Is Cyber Bullying?? Cyber Bullying is the use of electronic communication to bully a person, typically by sending messages of an intimidating or threatening nature. Now a days it’s so easy for someone to fall victim to a cyberbully or for someone to be a cyber bully. There are so many ways a person can be cyber bullied. For example someone could steal a person’s identity online by creating a fake Facebook account and start saying and posting things that you wouldn’t do or say therefore…

the Internet, or ‘Cyber Bullying. Megan Meier is thought to be among the principal instances of suicide coming about because of Cyber-Bullying in the United States of America. Notwithstanding, rather than a huge lion's share of Cyber-Bullying cases that has taken after Meier's case, in which the harassing is regularly attempted by kindred companions and cohorts, Lori Drew, who was the parent of a kindred understudy, was accused of engineering the tormenting of Megan…

Justice for Suicide Victims Cyberbullying can have disastrous consequences and one of them can be suicide. There is one death by suicide in the US every 13 minutes and approximately 105 deaths a day (CDC). As of only a few years ago, social media became something we 'd never even imagine. Back in 2006, a young girl was around the age of thirteen when she devastatingly ended her own life after being cyberbullied by someone who she thought was her friend. Her name was Megan Meier. Megan Meier met…

Megan Meier Abigail Lewandowski-Cyber bullying is one of the biggest growing trends in America today. In fact, forty-three percent of kids are cyberbullied according to the experts on the website 4kclub.org. Megan Meier, a thirteen year old girl who suffered from depression, was a victim of cyberbullying. She met a boy on Myspace named Josh Evans. Her life changed in one click and the outcome of her anecdote is devastating. Megan is a well known girl who was cyber bullied to death. At the…