Social Media Bullying

EMC Editorial. (2012, October 25) Social media a double-edged sword when it comes to bullying. EMC News. Retrieved from http://www.emcfrontenac.ca/20121025/editorials/Social+media+a+double-edged+sword+when+it+comes+to+bullying

Just this past few months, the world was met by a girl named Amanda Todd whom commit suicide from being bulled people over the social media.  After this incident everyone's eyes opened to this concept of bullying over the social media.  The idea of bullying isn't anything new that we have learned from, but the type, tone, and ferocity has changed when you mix both bullying and social media together.  Once you have been caught in this mixture of tormentors, its difficult or impossible to get out.  When an outcome like Amanda Todd comes out there's always a positive side out of these sad consequences, it's that society can review this situation and learn how to intervene when something like this happens.  Everyone has a role to play when i come to bullying because social media is making it easier for bullying. But if we use this tool correctly we can use it to make it easy for us to stop bullying.