Bullying

Bullying

Be the change you want to see. Make bullying stop.

There are different types of bullying : 

- Verbal bullying 

Saying or writing mean or bad things, making offensive jokes..

- Social bullying 

Involves hurting someone’s reputation or relationships, spreading rumors about someone, embarrassing someone in public..

- Physical bullying 

It’s when someone (or a group of persons/children) is hurting a person’s body or possessions..

- Cyber bullying 

Technology is already a part of everyone’s life and most teenagers today have phones, tablets, laptops, digital cameras, other gadgets, and the fact is that all this technology make it easier to bully others, a simple text message passed around the school or inside the class is already classified as cyber-bullying. The worst case scenario will be probably posting a video of a physical abuse in the Internet.

Amanda Todd

• Let me talk about a true story about a girl who was a victim of cyber-bullying.
• Canadian girl commits suicide (15 years old). She posted a video (9 july 2012) of her story in Youtube about being cyber-bullying (her video has been watched 17 million views). She was found dead five weeks after she uploaded her video in Youtube, of course it was an apparent suicide. In her video: She said a few years ago she was lured by a stranger to expose her breasts on a webcam, he asked her to do a show but she refused that’s why.. 1 year later, the picture ended up on a Fb page by the stranger who collected a lot of informations (her address, her friends, her family). So everyone saw  her nude picture. It caused a lot of pain and damage. She turned to depression because she was insulted, humiliated, abused every day. She had to change schools several times. She had no friends, was beaten up by some classmates. She wrote of being plunged into anxiety, depression, drugs, alcohol. One day, when she got home, she drank bleach « It killed me inside and I thought I actually was going to die. » She said.                                                                      The last cards said simply « I have nobody. I need someone. My name is Amanda Todd. »                                                                             Beneath the video, she posted a note saying she produced it not for attention, but « to be an inspiration and to show that i can be strong. » She gave up and she decided to end her life. It took police almost two years to find only one suspect. A 35-year-old man has been charged in April 2014 in the Netherlands in connection with the suicide in 2012 of Canadian teenager Amanda Todd, who was bullied online.

Consequences:

Some kids naturally will not accept being bullied, and will stand against it and others are not that brave and will crumble at it: Have depression, anxiety, feelings of loneliness and isolation.                                           Lose confidence and interest in school. Start alcohol and drugs abuse in adolescence and as adults. Engage in fights and vandalism. Some end up as school drop-outs. It can led to suicide.                                                                            Bullying affects everyone, not only the youth who are bullied. Also those who bully, those who witness bullying – even the whole school and community.

Conclusion:                                                                                            

« Words are sometimes more powerful and dangerous than weapons and physical violence » Joseph Conrad Essay.                                             
  Words can not hurts physically but it can destroy reputations, life itself.
 « We suffer more from words than a blow. »

Angéli Agudo.