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The Crime of Cyberbullying

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Cyberbullying should be a crime since people who bully other people online do not know when to stop it. Also not many people believe that cyberbullying should be stopped by reporting it to the police or the agency. People wanted it to be reported so they could feel safe and not feel hurt. The government should make it a punishable crime because people often feel hurt, do not know how to defend themselves, they do not feel safe, and also a lot of people tend to commit suicide. Teenagers are mostly targeted online by other teenagers through Myspace, Facebook, and email. Teens post things online to the targeted person by sending it to everyone else and get a whole gang saying mean things to a targeted person. Teenagers message a person saying mean things to other teenagers. Also teenagers take another person’s picture online and edit it to embarrass him/her and show it to other people to make fun of. Cyberbullying should be treated as a crime so that it could be stopped. One reason Cyberbullying should be a crime is because it causes people to suffer when cyberbullies say brutal things and they act like they are bullying people in person. People suffer when they cannot stop thinking about what Cyberbullies said to them. Other reasons people really get hurt online is because they believe that the quote “sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me” is not true since words do hurt them. Also people often take it offensively since the more cyberbullies hurt them, the more they are going to suffer. If it’s not seen as a crime, then the police will not get involve. In addition, Cyberbully should be stopped so people can feel safe when they are online. They can feel safe by reporting to the police because if they report it to the police, cyberbullying can be stopped. People get scared inside when someone is attacking them online. They feel scared because people thought the cyberbully might come to them in person a

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