Absolutely.
It doesn't matter whether or not we think people should be offended by others online, it's the fact that they do.
If cyberbullying is not as bad as everyone is saying, why have so many lives been taken because of it?
The thing is, we're all different people and tend to comprehend things differently. As for myself, I've been cyberbullied loads of times throughout my time of being on the internet, and it has never really bothered me. On the other hand, say someone gets bullied in school, they'll must likely be vulnerable to the crude comments and harassment that they would endure during the attack online.
Cyberbullying has been getting worse and worse over time, and without a doubt I think it's real. The victims don't do what they do for attention.
People say that the victim should just ignore the comments along with the attacker, but as Leader said, it's much easier said than done. There are people out there that hear the comments there told often and begin to actually believe them, they sit there and soak in what the attacker says.
Just because what you're saying to someone online doesn't make it any different than saying it to them in person. Whether it's cyberbulling someone you know from school online, or just someone random off the internet, you don't know them. Not many people knew my brother either, and that's why they were as ignorant as the blindness to the whole subject of cyberbulling.
I've had to move 3 different times due to the things my brother had to go through as a kid.
Just a quick little story.
When I was younger I was always playing Halo and my brother was usually in his room watching t.v. Well, one day he went out for a bike ride and my mother and I would occasionally see him come around the block, well we hadn't seen him for about 10 or 15 minutes. My mother was just about done cooking dinner, so she wanted me to go out and get him. Me being as young as I was, I didn't understand much at all. I walked around the block and saw four kids pretty far away, as I got closer I saw one of them was my brother in the middle of a triangle of 3 other boys, crying. These kids wouldn't let my brother leave, all 3 of them sitting there calling him horrible names, telling him to kill himself. I ended up getting him to come home with me, and he started running away telling me to run and that they were going to hurt us, we ended up walking. Again, I wasn't really that smart.. And that's that pretty much.
But seeing your older brother break down like that and see it for years really makes you think about bullying, especially when your sibling tells you that their sucidial.
He got bullied so much so now it doesn't really bother him, but not everyone is the same. Things like that can carry with people throughout the rest of their lives bringing them depression and an endless list of other side effects.
Cyberbullying is the same as bullying but behind a computer screen, and some people don't have the strength to just ignore or block people.
