Cyberbullying and Its Effects

MY BIG FAT FABULOUS LIFE!

Everyday, there are stories and problems about people being "huge", being "fat". I found this story about a girl who his big but does what she loves. Weight doesn’t get in the way of what she loves. She is dancing and she is also exercising.

So here’s the story:

Whitney Thore was once a dancer, but over the course she gained 200 pounds due to condition called Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS). She took her along time to deal with the change but now she’s happy with her body, and through her active social life and love of dancing, she lives vivaciously and holds nothing back. She keeps her life busy with her dance. She currently lives with her parents; she’s working on getting out on her own as she approaches her 31^st birthday. Now 380 pounds, she has a new outlook on life. She learned how to embrace her body and love herself and urge others to do the same. Following the success of her “fat girl” dance videos, she launched the #nobodyshamecampaign. This is a movement that works to fight the devastating affect of body shame and promotes self love and acceptance of who you are. The campaign encourages a person to rise above the negativity that society imposes on anyone who is “different” and to live there lives to the fullest no matter what the scale says. The movement lives by the motto: “love yourself. Live fully. No excuses. No shame”!  

Here are 5 people I interviewed about cyberbullying:

Ms. Wyrick

1. What’s your view on cyber bulling?
   -get off of Facebook!
2. Why do you think cyber bulling affects girls more than boys?
   -girls are more emotional.
3. What ways can you cyberbully?
   -slander, threats & false accusation.

Indie l.

1. what's your view on cyber bulling

             - I think that cyber bulling are caused by people who don't seek enough attention in real life and have a mess with others online.

2. why do you think cyber bulling affects girl more than boys?

           - girls are more emotional than guys and they care about what people say or think about them.

3. what ways can you cyber bully?

          -you can cyber bulling by calling somebody ugly or calling them any name, or spreading false rumors or even creating fakes pages.

Coach Branch

1. what's your view on cyber bulling?

      -It is something that has come about more in the past few years. with technology getting more advanced it seems to become a bigger and bigger problem.

2. why do you think cyber bulling affects girls more than boys?

     -Because of the fact that girls tend to be more vulnerable at an early age and taken advantage of.

3. what ways can you cyber bully?

     -Texting, Facebook, and other electronic devices.

Keshawn

1. What's your view on cyber bulling?

        -I don't really see it, but it isn't right and it should stop.

2. Why do you think cyber bulling affects girls more than boys?

        - because girls like gossip.

3. What ways can you cyber bully?

        - exposing naked pictures.

Jasmine Adkins

1.What's your view on cyber bulling?

       - cyber bulling is wrong people bully on the internet or anywhere they aren't seen its wrong and they shouldn't do it.

2. Why do you think cyber bulling affects girls more than boys?

        -cyber bulling affects females more because of jealousy and drama. more females are in drama than boys.

3. What ways can you cyber bully?

        -exposing, making rumors, making fake pages of people and doing things on their page and just being jealous starts problems.

on CNN news

     "Police arrest 15 year old girl accused of cyber bulling in Florida"

Police in St. Petersburg Florida have arrested a 15 year old girl who they said sent several hundred threatening texts to three other 15 year old girls. The suspect, who CNN is not naming cause of her age, is charged with 3 accounts of aggravated stalking and one account of tampering with a witness, according to a Thursday statement from police. many of the texts were allegedly death threats.

According to police, the suspect admitted she sent some of the texts but not all of them.

They said she admitted to sending the following text: "If this isn't bullying then I don't know what is."

The suspect had been friends with the victims, but they had a falling out.

Police detectives interviewed her Monday and told her to steer clear of the victims. She continued to send threatening texts, prompting the tampering with a witness charge, police said.

In a somewhat similar case, police in Florida last month arrested two girls, 14 and 12, in connection with the death of Rebecca Sedwick, who jumped from the top of an abandoned concrete plant. They were charged with felony aggravated stalking.

Sedwick, 12, of Winter Haven, Florida, jumped to her death on September 9.

My thoughts on cyber bulling:

I think cyber bulling is wrong, its a way to put people down to make yourself feel better. There are so many ways you can cyber bully.