Unfortunately many people are bullied everyday whether as they attend school or when they get home and get online on social networks such as Twitter, and Facebook, and even YouTube. Not too long ago a student named Tyler Celementi committed suicide as he became one of the victims of cyberbullying. Tyler Clementi was only 18 years old and a freshman at the Rutgers University in New Jersey where he was filmed by his roommate and broadcasted on the internet while being intimate with another man in his room. Research has shown that “Nine out of 10 gay, lesbian and bisexual students are bullied in school, according to a 2007 survey by the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network. And they are four times more likely to attempt suicide, according to a 2007 Massachusetts youth risk survey” (CBS), and Tyler Clementi unfortunately became part of the statistics. Many times people feel uncomfortable around people who are bisexual and feel the need to bully them about it, and in most cases these people who are bullied feel very exposed and feel as if they have reached the end of the line and they try to commit suicides in order to escape all the mean things that they are told.
Another person who became a victim to this horrible issue of cyberbullying was a canadian teenage girl from Vancouver named Amanda Todd. Amanda became very depressed and started having anxiety problems when some random guy on the web threatened to release a photo of her flashing him on camera. Amanda could not deal with all the stress and in the end she made a YouTube video as her last message before she committed suicide on October 10th, 2012 at the age of 16.
These are just a couple yet very powerful sad results of bullying and cyberbullying in general. Most people who do the bullying often don't think about what kinds of consequences their actions might have on the person and their family. At the same time not all those who have been bullied commit suicide, some become greatly depressed and start having other forms of problems in their life, anxiety and eating disorder are just a few of the problems that can arise from being bullied.
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"Tyler Clementi Suicide Result of Hate Crime?" CBS News. CBS, 30 Sept. 2010. Web. 14 Nov. 2012.
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