Cyberbulling

Article link: http://www.cyberbullyalert.com/blog/2008/10/stories-of-cyber-bullying/

Article Title: The Megan Meier MySpace Incident

Megan Meier was a 13 year old from Missouri who struck up an online friendship on the popular social networking site MySpace with a person she believed was a new boy in her hometown. In actuality, the “friend” was a group of individuals, including adults, who were intent on humiliating the poor girl because of a friendship with another child that had gone awry. Megan was very upset when she found out the truth, then later committed suicide once the friendship had terminated. The horrifying case stunned the community and caused state government officials to pass some of the harshest cyber bullying laws in the country.

I don’t think that it is right for, young kids to start up a relationship with random people they don’t know or haven’t met. I also don’t think it is right for someone who is only 13 years old to have a MySpace account. I understand that she would be upset, but I wouldn’t kill myself over something stupid like that.

The person that they suspect for bullying the young girl was a mother in Missouri who is being charged for first degree murder for bullying the child and leading her to kill herself. The young girl Megan killed herself, because she was stressed and just felt like she couldn’t take life anymore and just wanted to end it all.

Megan could have stood up and told the police or someone that she knew could have helped her out. She also could have just deleted her MySpace or stayed off MySpace for awhile. Also she could have deleted the fake friend. Theirs just so many things she could have done to prevent it from happening.

This could apply to anyone, because anybody could get cyber bullied. You could be getting cyber bullied at school through texts; you could get cyber bullied by people in other states. Its applies to society because everyone can be cyber bullied it just goes on weather or not they keep doing it because the way you react. If you act freaked out, they will continue to do it because they know it scares you. If you act mad and talk crap to them then they will do it to continue to make you mad.