Cyber-Bullying the cause of a 15 year old girl's suicide

A Freshman girl named Phoebe Prince moved to Massachusetts from Ireland. She was cyber bullied by many people at the school. They targeted her because they all thought she was pretty and they were all jealous of her. That is what her one friend in the video clip said. In the video her friend tells you some of the things they said to her. On her Wikipedia of her suicide it says that she was bullied by at least two separate groups of students at her high school. The reason that was reported was she had disputes with other girls over her beliefs of her relationship with a senior football player and another male student. The aunt told the school to watch after her niece because she had been bullied at her last school. The last straw for Phoebe was on January 14,2010. During the day she was taunted, harassed and a student threw a can at her out of a car when she was walking home from school. That day January 14th Phoebe took her own life by hanging herself and her 12 year old sister found her.

Hearing a story like this is just so upsetting because Phoebe didn't choose to be Cyber-Bullied they targeted her and made her life miserable. There are many stories about Cyber-Bullying and the effect of what happen to that person. I thought that Phoebe's story was a good example of showing the effect of Cyber-Bullying.




Here's the video of Phoebe Prince on CBS News

Statistics Of Cyber bullying

There are a lot of different statistics of Cyber-Bullying. Here are some from websites

Here are some from i-Safe Inc
The i-Safe Inc got there information from doing a survey and sent it out to school across the country in 2003-2004 school year
* 42% of kids have been bullied while online. 1 in 4 have had it happen more than once
*21% of kids have received mean or threatening e-mail or other messages
*58% have not told their parents or an adult about something mean or hurtful that happened to them online

Here is a graph to show how many people said hurtful or angry things to another person. It it divided up into grade levels 4- 8.















Harford County Examiner
*Around half of teens have been the victims of cyber bullying
*Fewer than 1 in 5 cyber bullying incidents are reported to law enforcement
*Girls are somewhat more likely than boys to be involved in cyber bullying

Social Networks used during Cyber-Bullying

Some of the social networks that kids use these days are Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, MSN and YouTube. With the technology growing the use of the internet expanded from so many different ages now. Kids will attack someone through the social network to embarrass them in front of there peers. Another way is to set up a group that says if you hate this person join.