Looking through the top stories on MSN, I found a topic that stoood out: "Is bullying leading to suicide?" A young girl named Rebecca, only 12 years of age, was found dead not too long ago. She jumped from the top of a cement plant and took her life. Her parents had some hints here and there that she was being bullied. They took away here Facebook and even changed her phone number, but she couldn't escape all the rude, horid comments. Her mother claims she was terrorized by social networking sites such as kik, ask.fm, Instagram, and Voxer. These social medias allow you to hide behind the walls of the site and not show your identity. In my opinion, it makes some people feel superior and invincible. For perfect example, the T.V. show Catfish. People talk online without ever meeting before and they don't always turn out to be who they said they were.
For a young girl to feel like she needed to take her life away to escape the pain kills me inside. I feel that if someone that young, they shouldn't be on social networking sites anyways. They are just tools to help bullies. Parents need to pay close attention and talk to their children because the result of a death is way harder to deal with then a result of your child being mad you for taking away social media.
Here is the link to the video I watched : http://www.nbcnews.com/id/21134540/vp=53019112�&from=en-us_msnhp&snid=18424776?ocid=msnhp
Oh, my gosh, this is SO sad. I hate that a young girl felt her life was over at 12! I hope the people who bully others read her story and stop!
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