Log #1

Discussing "Cyberbully"

(source: http://www.peacefromdv.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/bully.jpg)

     One year has already passed since the terrible news that a young celebrity chose to end her life by committing suicide shocked all the Taiwan citizens. It is her incident uncovered by the media that the issue of cyberbully was able to be re-raised for intense discussion among the public. In fact, according to a 2016  research conducted by the National Crime Prevention Center, USA, more than 50% of American adolescents had experienced cyberbullies before. It's even shocking that more than people admitted their bullying behaviors without finding anything wrong with them. After further investigations in those who ever underwent cyberbullies, we can know that about 65.8% people would respond to the bullies directly while approximately 15% people would rather skip the schools instead of reacting to bullies.

(source: http://www.scoopify.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Top-30-Cyber-Bullying-Statistics-e1451572097341.jpg)

     However, the main cause for this negative phenomenon is probably the abuse of the social media. When I was a junior high school student, I did not really know what bully exactly stands for, let alone cyberbully. It was my teen age that when Facebook overwhelmed the globe, it becoming one of the top influential social media; beat down Twitter at that time. I still remembered vividly that three of my friends and I intentionally uploaded a photo of our classmates who we didn't really like to Facebook and we all like to share that photo with a view to making more people see it. What's worse, that photo was actually taken when that classmate was sleeping with strange posture and that is extremely embarrassed; to be honest. Little did we know how awful thing that we had done until we went to senior high school. But everything is simply too late that we could not find him and make an official apology to him anymore. After that, I've been more cautious of my every post or the words that I uttered in fear of bullying others accidentally till now. Cyberbully sometimes can be very very terrible in deed.