In America, a Rutgers University freshman (first year student) Tyler Clementi posted a goodbye message on his Facebook page before jumping to his death after his roommate secretly filmed him during a “sexual encounter” in his dorm room and posted it live on the Internet in 2010.
In the same year, nine Massachusetts teenagers were indicted for driving Irish teenager Phoebe Prince to suicide with social media sites Twitter, Craigslist, Facebook and Formspring being used to bully her.
Cyber-bullying unquestionably has a negative impact on its victims. The fact that internet harassment is meant to psychologically agitate its victims lends it to being harmful in nature.
“I know there’s no one perfect person in this world and you can’t tell me that by talking to me like that, it makes you a bigger person. If you took part in it and that’s how you roll, good for you,” she says.
“It will come back to you because one day somebody will tell you these mean things you’re telling other people,” she concludes.
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