Pledge to Action against Cyber-bullying Essay

The internet has provided us with various advantages, centered mainly on making both our academic and social life more comfortable. Indeed, there are a lot of things we have to be thankful about with the coming of the Internet. Imagine, say, passing a ten-pager paper on the effects of social media on the academic performance of young teens without having given enough time for research. While going to the library is the classical, and not to mention, the ‘academic’ way of doing it, the case is surely different when we are given only an hour to work on it. Internet has truly made our school life easier.

Aside from this, the Internet also keeps us close with our peers, including the long-lost ones. Through instant messaging and social media, conversations are truly easy with just a click of a mouse. It, thus, draws us closer to our loved ones, and connects us to those whom we share our interests with.

Along with the good sides of the Internet are its downsides as well. With the increasing popularity of Facebook and Youtube, people sometimes make use of the strong reach of such websites to spread bad rumors about other people. This, we all know, is cyber-bullying.

As pointed out by Erick Fisher in his article entitled Blah Blah Blah Blog, cyber-bullying is a phenomenon that children and adolescents seem to be increasingly using to harm others. In addition to this, Childnet International claimed in its article entitled Safe to Learn: Embedding Anti-bullying Work in School that cyber-bullying is a common feature in the lives of many young people. This is also reinforced in the online research of Robert Bamford on Cyber-bullying which stated that the significant and substantial changes in youth society are a result of new information and communication technologies. Therefore, the ease of creating and communicating in cyber space has led to changing patterns of participation. In this light, we have become active shapers of the nature of cyber world due to our capacity to develop and refine cyber communication devices. Unfortunately, it has turned out to be a bad thing.