Teens Should Be Prosecuted For Cyberbullying

Similar to other forms of bullying, cyberbullying can cause a victim to loss of focus on activities, school, family and friends,and can even lead to suicide. According to statistics reported by ABC News “nearly 30 percent of students are either bullies or victims of bullying in some way, and 160,000 kids stay home from school every day because of fear of bullying”(Webster). Due to the fear of going to school, teenagers lose focus on activities important to them and can even lose focus on their future, such as college. According to statistics about bullying in general, “Suicide is the third leading cause of death among young people, resulting in about 4,400 deaths per year, according to the CDC. For every suicide among young people, there are at least 100 suicide attempts. Over 14 percent of high school students have considered suicide, and almost 7 percent have attempted it”(Webster). Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem; however, being bullied in any way can lead to the feeling of loneliness and hopelessness and the laws set in place does not help victims hurt feelings go away. Cyberbullying is not a victimless crime and with these statistics multiple laws have been set into place to prevent bullying; however, there are minimal laws to protect victims of

Many people than ever are being victims of cyberbullying due to the increase use of the Internet, and social media. The victims of cyberbullying are affected in a negative way at school, home, and with friends. Cyber Bullies should be prosecuted for negative comments made on social media. Many people are victims of cyber bullies on social media.

“20% of youth between ages 11-18 have been a victim of cyberbullying.” states “What is cyberbullying” Each year, many people are cyberbullied. This can lead to physical and mental harm, can affect everyone, and is not being reported as much as it should be. Cyberbullies should be prosecuted for these harmful actions.

Cyberbullying is a big risk that can lead to suicide, and other factors that not only have physical scars, but mental scars. According to BullyStatisics.com…”Suicide is the third leading cause of death among young people, resulting in about 4,400 deaths per year, according to the cdc for every one suicide among young people, there are at least 100 attempts.” This shows us that cyberbullying has effects that people can’t go back from, but can be prevented if parents/guardians take the extra step, and monitor their kids social media to restrict the cyber bullying and stress from

To start off, people should be prosecuted for cyberbullying online because they might be threatening someone's life. If someone cyberbullies someone else, the bully could be ruining their reputation. Also they could be ruining their future careers that

Every day, millions of people roam the internet. There has been much discussion on whether or not people should be prosecuted for cyber bullying. I believe that they should. Although many think that prosecution affects the first amendment, cyber bullying promotes getting hurt, affects the targets life, and promotes depression.

Although cyberbullying is something that should be prevented I admit that it has caused many incidents over the years. People made unthoughtful actions as being the victims of this and committed suicide or hurting themselves. “Although cyberbullying may seem insignificant in the big picture, in a survey conducted in 2006, nearly 1 in 3 teens admitted to being the victim of cyberbullying. Cyberbullying can also lead to kids getting physically injured.” Teenagers should not be punished criminally because of their

Cyberbullying has been sighted has having been a factor in several published teen suicides or attempted suicides over the past year. Children have killed each other and committed suicide after having been involved in a cyberbullying incident. (Stop Cyberbullying)

Adolescents should be held accountable for Cyberbullying because it will teach them a lesson to not to do it anymore. It is also a fair punishment considering that they did commit a terrible crime,and saying youth is an excuse for such behavior is unacceptable. My view on Cyberbullying is supported by the article

Cyber bullying is an on-going issue that is terrorizing kids in almost every school district in the United States. Most of the states are trying to enforce it with a couple laws and restrictions but it won’t be that easy to get rid of something as big as cyber bullying has become. Should the United States crack down and enforce cyber bullying more? This issue has caused suicide and many other mental and physical problems with teens and even kids throughout the United States.

To conclude, no one should have to face prosecution for what they say online because bullying isn’t illegal in real life, people have the right to speak freely, and people should be allowed to decide who they interact with

There over thousands of cases where a child ended up taking their life because that child fell victim to cyberbullying. As a nation we see cyberbullying everywhere it is publicized on the news, in movies, and even books. Nobody wants to talk about it, just another thing that is swept under the rug but its here in the world. There should be a law preventing cyber bullying because it affects the welfare of the victim, cyber bullying is a constant, and we are better than this.

I believe that cyber bullying is wrong. No one gets physically hurt, but feelings are hurt everytime this happens. Some people think that it’ll make the other person stronger, but people feel weak because they don’t know what to do. Since our generation is full of technology and social websites it’s challenging to escape a bully because they can now track you down online but no one seems to do anything about it. Kids who are bullied don’t block the other person they just let it happen and it gets worse and worse every time. Social media apps like instagram never take down people's accounts even if they become flagged for harassment. Cyberbullies just don’t stop. They continue till they accomplish this goal of feeling better about themselves

Some people may say, “The victims could easily delete the social media apps and move on”, or “why cant the bullies just get fined or a warning from school”. I respond to that statement by saying that the bullies should be prosecuted because its a very serious, mean thing to do and that if the victim is mentally hurting, so should the bully. Also like I said in the beginning, cyberbullying will sometimes result to a suicide or an attempt at a suicide. Kids shouldn't risk or take there lives because of

Cyberbullying is leading to suicide. 5 to 8% of teens commit suicide each year due to cyberbullying. The 5 to 8% of teens that have committed suicide could not handle the stress of being bullied via social media. Suicide is also the number 3 killer of teens. The number 1 killer is car accidents and the number 2 killer is homicide, this information shows how common teen suicide is. In conclusion, suicide due to cyberbullying is a rising conflict and action is needed to reduce the number of deaths.