Cyberbullying has affected many people all over the world. People are very sensitive to what is said about them on social media because no matter what, it cannot be deleted. It will always resurface and make that certain person feel disgusting and hate themselves and I feel that is why it needs to disappear.

I feel as though cyberbullying is very personal. For someone to take the time to go on a social media site (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc.), sit down at their computer or go on their smartphone just to write something negative about you means that they thought a lot about doing this and planned their words wisely enough to hurt you.

Yik Yak is by far the worst because it is anonymous. Every time I open the yak, someone is always being talked about. Sometimes, it can be a good way that people are talking, but oftentimes it isn’t. People judge way too harshly, and I can’t say that I don’t either because I do as well, but it’s really bad. Certain people are being pointed at and their daily lives are being tortured because of the anonymous messages that were said about them on social media. Some people’s hearts and minds are strong enough to blow certain things like this off, but other people can’t. Most people obsess over the bad things that are being said to them and that’s the scary part.

Something online can scar you and you have no choice but to continue to look at it every single day. Cyberbullying can push someone so far off the edge that they might actually take matters into their own hands. No one understands what goes through the mind of another person and they don’t understand how what they can say will affect the way that the victim thinks or acts. Cyberbullying needs to stop because people don’t deserve to be treated as if their feelings don’t matter.

If you have something to say to someone, sitting down and talking things out is just as or even more effective than hiding behind a computer screen to get the job done. Cyberbullying is ruining how students talk to other people and not just students, adults as well. Cyberbullying is expanding and getting even worse day by day. There are more people out there in constant depression, who hate having to wake up and go to school every day because the bullying isn’t just at school anymore, it’s at home and it is affecting the way that they live their daily lives. Going home is supposed to help you to be able to escape the stress that is at school and vice versa, but how can that even happen when the bullying seems to be nonstop. You wake up and go to school where you are bullied and you go home and sit down in front of your computer screen and realize that your bullying hasn’t stopped.

Cyberbullying needs to be put to rest.