iBullying
At one point or another, we were all members of the education system. We all were victims of it cruel and unmonitored bullying. But when will people start to realize that bullying is not the same thing as it once was. Back some odd 30 years, it was a Goliath-like figure and some David-like figure being hassled for lunch money, but now its Sally beating up Sue because she said the wrong thing to her on MySpace. Bullying has come to a new era. The new era of Bullying is called “Cyber-Bullying.” This kind of Bullying is unique, in the sense that unlike other types of bullying, this doesn’t start physically; it starts with words.

“Responding to victimizations questions, 10 percent had been threatened with a weapon within the past year. About 20 percent of the youth reported they were offered, sold or given drugs at least once in school. Also within the past year, 24 percent had been teased about their race and 29 percent had had property stolen from them or damaged at school.”

Cyber-Bullying starts on most social networking sites such as, Facebook, MySpace, or Orkut. Almost every teenager and young-adult has a social networking profile. About 87% to be exact. This makes cyber-bullying much more likely to occur. About 4 out of 7 kids have been bullied through social networking websites, and this number doesn’t show any signs of going down. People don’t realize that cyber-bullying causes more problems than actual bullying. There’s a wise saying “Problems out in the open are just words but when they are kept inside, they are poison.” When people get their feelings hurt over cyber-bullying, they tend to keep their emotions locked up, creating emotional and physical problems. During the late month of June of last year, there was a big news coverage article of a girl getting beat up over something said over MySpace. According to the story, a girl said