Incidents Happened Due to Cyber Bullying
Bad Things Happen to people who are cyber bullied. when someone is being cyber bullied, it could cause more than depression to them, it could be the cause to their death. As scary as it is, people have killed themselves becaus they could not take the insults. Teens are usually the ones who get cyber bullied. Teens are young and naive. and not only teens are cyber bullied even college students are. someone who is cyber bullied could be in danger of killing themselves. make sure that doesn't happen to them. Look at this below.
These three people were cyber bullied in the past. These are stories to what happened to them.
Tyler Clementi
Tyler Clementi was 18 years old when he was a college freshman student at Old Rutgers university. one of his classmates had placed a video recorder in his dorm. The video recorded him of having sexual encounter with another man. this video was posted on the internet. after tyler saw this he got depressed and posted on his facebook "Jumping off the gw bridge sorry." ten minutes later he did jump off the george washington bridge to his death. He died in 2010. This is horrible. i don't find it funny when someone is being tormented.
Amanda Todd
Amanda todd was in seventh grade when she met a man in a chat room. the man told her to flash here breasts for him, and she did when she was talked into it. a year later the same man contacted her and asked her to send him more stuff. he threatend that if she didn't he would post the picture of her breasts online. she was very vulnerable to him since he new her address, school, family members, and friends. she refused and the man posted her breasts on the internet. many students at her school saw the pictures and started to tease her. she got depressed and began to take drugs and drink. a year passed and she was at a new school when she saw that the man created a new Facebook account with her breasts as his main account picture. her students and new friends started to ignore her, talk about her and bully her. this brought her down big time. amanda began to cut herself after this. She moved to a new school and a boy flirted with her, as a result her old friends came beat her. instead of helping, people watched and filmed it. when they finally stopped, she was left alone on the ground. she ended up in a ditch and her father found her there. she drunk bleach in trying to kill herself. she was taken to the hospital and was treated. but when she got home she was still depressed and continued to cut herself. in september 2012, she wrote her story on flash cards and filmed it and posted it on youtube. on october 10, 2012, she committed suicide. her body was found in her house. she was only 16 years old when she committed suicide. this story is the saddest story i've ever heard. her death was caused by a man she met online. if this man is reading this, god still loves you. ask for forgiveness and he will.
Ryan Halligan
Ryan Halligan was 13 when a kid who bullied him since 5th. grade befriended him and got to his trusting side. ryan told a joke his friend and his friend turned this joke into a rumor. "Ryan must be gay". this is a horrible thing to do. The taunting and rumor was to much for him and he took his own life away. ryan's father is now trying to help other kids who are going through what ryan went through in memory of his son.