Attending a new school in Massachusetts, all the way from Ireland, Phoebe Prince is ready to start a new life and make new friends. However, not everything always goes in his favor. As soon as Prince starts dating the football star, the threats start coming. The constant torment at school leaves her alone and depressed, and when she returns home, she never stops. He received endless text messages and the torment didn't end there. Phoebe was constantly harassed through social networking sites, such as Facebook. High school should be the best time of his life, but he only gets to live a year of it because he takes his own life relentlessly. Cyberbullying is a problem that affects nearly half of American adolescents (NCPC 1). Adult authorities should enact strict rules to protect vulnerable children from the effects of the modern threat of cyberbullying. Although technology makes it difficult to identify the real perpetrator, the expansion of technology over the years has recently made cyberbullying a more important factor. From Myspace to Facebook, from Formspring to Twitter, cyberbullying is making its way all over the Internet and will stop at nothing. The rise of networking sites, personal Web pages and blogs filled with minutiae of teenage antics and angst has helped create a climate conducive to cyber chaos: locker room photos taken on cell phones and beamed across the Internet, fake profiles created on social media - networking sites, salacious rumors spread in chat rooms, threats spread across the city via instant messages (Billitteri 4). They warn that young people on these sites are more likely to be victims of cyberbullying and that they are also vulnerable to pr...... middle of paper ......y, has a very strict Internet usage policy with some sites, such as Myspace, blocked so students cannot access them (Cyber Bullying 3). Cyber bullying causes destruction not only to the victim's life, but also to his or her loved ones. With modern technology increasing every day, cyberbullying will continue to grow without the strict anti-bullying laws that need to be enforced not just in some states, but in all. Schools need to be more open about what children do during school hours and be rigorous that their actions do not follow them home. Parents need to teach their children better habits and respectful manners so that when they confront others, they are less likely to bully them. With all these small improvements that can be made, cyberbullying can be reduced very easily if everyone helps out every day.
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