In Canada, one would think that we are one of the countries with the most cyber bullying, but that is not the case. On the international cyber bullying chart, we are only in the middle right after the U.S.A. I know right, I thought we were the peaceful ones. There are countries above us, or I should be saying under us when it comes to cyber bullying like France and Greece, but the one with the most cyber bullying taking place is in Lithuania.

Lithuania: Secretly hate each other.

In Japan, there are bullies that are using blogs to harass other students in high school. So, who knows, I could be harassing you guys right now by making you read all of this. They also surveyed South Korean universities and it turns out that three fourths of the students knew a victim of cyber bullying, and a little more then half knew a bully.

Currently, in England, Northern Ireland, and Wales, there is a new law that tackles an anti-bullying and behavioral policy. In Scotland, the schools are now also trying to make the same policy as the others. Today, most schools should have the same policy because there are now inspections that make sure the schools are a happy and educational environment. Some schools in England are making time for a new proactive event called circle-time where the kids gather in a circle and discuss things (probably how to prevent a problem). A man named Thompson points out that not all schools and students are the same. I fully agree to what he had to say because every country has it's habits and it's way of life, so tackling cyber-bullying can be different depending in what country you are in. 

In conclusion, no matter what country or how old a person is, cyber bullying is not a joke and it shouldn't be inflicted on any person in this world. I hope that my amazing blog (that's the relief talking) got you to understand the horrible deed and that you will never take part in any act of cyber bullying, EVER (I'm talking about bystanders too).

Resources:

-http://cyberbullying.org/cyberbullying-rates-across-the-world-and-the-role-of-culture/

-http://www.theguardian.com/teacher-network/teacher-blog/2013/nov/20/other-countries-tackle-bullying

Something that I really find important is improvement. What I'm trying to say by that is, if there are many scenarios in which someone is being cyber bullied, take precautions to try and stop it from EVER happening again. I mentioned how to learn about and why it shouldn't happen and how to recover from a situation of that sort, but now I'm mentioning how to prevent it from happening again and again.

If someone hasn't been or has already been cyber bullied, the school in which they attend can start taking charge to help put a stop to such an act. First of all, they can ban the use of cellphones and/or any electronic devices used in that class (every teacher has the right to ban or not to ban). In doing so, there will no longer be any opportunity to abuse the other individual during school hours. Something else the school can do which would make me and probably all the others students frustrated, is to punish everyone in the classes of the victim such as a detention during lunch. The bully will most definitely not want the whole school to turn on him which makes him stop bullying the victim for the sake of his friends and to keep the rest of the school on his good side.

To be 100% certain that the bullying will stop, the school can start special classes that explain the importance of world piece and all that bologna. Trust me, I'd rather have detention over that class any day of the week.

Now for the easiest and most simple way to prevent bullying from happening to you again is to DELETE any social media on which the bullying occurs. It doesn't matter that people know what's being said about you, it's more important that YOU don't know what's being said so that you won't feel bad in the first place.

Resources:

-Mom's thoughts and me

I've mentioned this in a previous blog, that the bully loses his all of his or her friends because they no longer want to be friends with a cruel human being. The other reason is that maybe they are just afraid that he will bully them next. If it were me, I wouldn't be friends with a bully for the simple reason that I don't want to bring problems to myself because of him. People might call that selfish, but I call it smart because no one in this world likes to get into trouble (I don't know if people are into that), so why be friends with the trouble when he's also rude on top of that.

Cyber bullying can influence more people then just the victim and the bully. We all know about the famous bystander, the guy, girl or dog that watches silently and doesn't intervene. Well... sucks to be him because he could've helped out the victim and avoided a lot of trouble. But this post is mainly talking about the impressions put on others after they find out about the incident (that being the cyber bully incident). And once the bully loses friends, he's not as intimidating because he has no one to back him up.

The bully will also most likely influence people even further that meaning it will reach the cops and they will put surveillance on the bully to make sure he doesn't try anything drastic. That being done, the bully is restricted of many activities that can be interpreted as illegal or harmful such as slap boxing which is played in certain schools for fun (no one gets physically hurt). He will also be despised by most adults with children of the same age.

The victim also influences some people because being depressed or simply sad, no one will want to talk to him. I always avoid the sad people without reason of being sad because I'm not trying to get sad as well, but don't get me wrong, people with a reason deserve a chance.

Resources:
-Parents advise when I was younger and pure opinion

Support groups, I said it and I'll say it again, support groups. By support groups I'm not talking about the AA meetings that you get in rehab for being an alcoholic or a junkie (drug addict). I'm talking about those nice and relaxing ones that go: "hey, my name's Bob and I'm being cyber bullied" and then the rest of the group goes on and so forth. I find those groups to be helpful because they are other individuals that could be going through something similar as yourself. I find that it is a way to share ideas of recovery to others and show support, after all they're called support groups.

There are also clubs that go against the whole cyber bullying concept. In those clubs, you can share ideas online and join an organization that helps stop bullying worldwide. An organization similar to those is Stompoutbullying.org, with their slogan "stomp the drama... end the hate... stomp out bullying". With these kinds of groups, people can make a change in heart by publicly speaking. And I'm not saying that the person must speak in front of all of Canada, but in one place after another like schools. In my opinion, schools are the best place to start any kind of change because in school is where cyber bullying usually starts, so if we go to the root of the problem and prevent it from ever happening then there would be no problem. Last year, when I was in 9th grade, we had a visitor come to our school and talk to us about her sister who was bullied physically and later online. Her sisters story was truly tragic and it really got me thinking because I have a brother and never in my life do I want him to be bullied. 

If you were being bullied and have recovered, help make a change in someone else' life (don't get me wrong, if you don't want to I get it).

Resources:

-http://www.stompoutbullying.org/

-Grade 9 speech

I talked about what happens to the bully, but I only gave a slight hint on what happens to the victim. So, we all know that victim is the one getting hurt and all that fun stuff (I'm kidding, I hope you knew that), but did we ever look any deeper like emotions (feelings)?

I have a friend that was bullied a long time ago (cyber bullied) and every day was hell in his eyes. Being cyber bullied leads to depression and anxiety that your life will never get better. You will also feel extreme loneliness because... you know being alone is pretty lonely. There will be changes in habits like eating, sleeping even the way you dress because you will eat less, sleep less, and wear baggy clothes that being because you will probably stay home as well. The one I find tragic is that you may even find the activities you used to do boring and will no longer be interested in them.

If the victim is then able to go to school, they will most likely do a health complaint and fake it so that they can stay home a little longer. But when there is no more excuses, the kid goes to school and even more surprises occur. There is a high probability that he or she will get lower grades (mind being somewhere else), they will participate less and probably skip, miss or drop out of school. If the victim is so depressed that he feels the need to get revenge, it is rare but he could become a school shooter and be sent to jail and be expelled (captain obvious). So if this post is useless to some victim, I ask that you wait until I graduate.

To conclude this post, I want to point out how it ends badly for both victim and bully, so if we all use the gift of the brain that god gave us, I'm sure we will make the easy decision and not get in any trouble.

Resources:
-http://www.stopbullying.gov/at-risk/effects/#bully
-friend experience

Cyber bullying may be a terrible experience towards the victim, but the bully (after the incident) doesn't have it so easy either. If the bully is found, which he/she usually is, they will be severely punished (not that severe like death or anything). In what I know, the bully can be suspended and even worse, expelled. If the bully has done something that ended badly like a suicide, and the bully is over the age of 18, he can be sent to jail. Although, if the bully is under the age of 18, he will be sent to juvie. Therefore, either one that the bully attends will be difficult to live through and keep your sanity.

Sometimes, the actions emit by a bully can determine his or her behavior as an adult. If the bullying is severe causing damage to another person physically or emotionally, the bully will most likely get into more fights later in life, start drinking abusively and doing drugs, dropping out of school, have criminal convictions, and even abuse the significant other in a relationship (just want to point out that this is sophisticated me talking). All in all, being a bully will not only bite you back as a young adolescent but will probably follow you for the rest of your life screwing it up.

Let's travel back in time to when the bully is yet not discovered. I want you to simply imagine how you would feel if you knew that the whole school, the victim's family and the police are looking for you. I know right, you would be filled with anxiety (at least I would). You would be constantly scared of being taken away as a criminal, and you would be regretting the day you told yourself that cyber bullying was fine and that no one will know it was you.

Okay, now let's all just be real for a second, we all know what the worst part of being the bully is right? Well i hope you do because the worst part is loosing all of your friends and getting name tagged as a bully for life preventing the creation of more friendships.

Resources:
-http://www.stopbullying.gov/at-risk/effects/#bully

Many people die in life. Let me restart a little less cruel, there are horrible things that can occur when being bullied. One of the worst, or actually the worst is suicide. Now suicide to all you beautiful viewers who don't know is when someone takes his or her life most likely after experiencing a terrible event. Cyber bullying can also lead to death (the victim), it will make someone feel so lowly of themselves that they no longer want to live. There is a particular victim who has attempted to kill herself twice failing the first time but successfully dying the second (I'm going to sound harsh throughout this post). Her attempts where bleach then hanging herself, if you haven't guessed already, it was Amanda Todd.

Amanda was a teenage girl by the age of 15 who killed herself at her house in British Colombia in Canada. How did she come to such a decision? In seventh grade, Amanda was getting a little...bad on the Internet when she flashed to a 35 year old man who was also the online bully. There is a saying that states "everybody makes mistakes, everybody has those days"-Hannah Montana, well I'm sorry Hannah but this is to far of a mistake for both Amanda and the bully (not saying Amanda's at fault). Her photos were then leaked to the whole school and she was not only bullied online but in school too (at least that's the way i understood it). She had been cutting her wrists for some time when she decided to make a video expressing the way she felt and what her story was. At the end of the video, the part that shocked everyone, the photos of her wrists.

I don't agree at all with what she did, that being the flash and the suicide. If she were to keep her "parts" to herself, all of this would never have happened. Also what do grade sevens do these days? Play in the park with their friends and go to school etc... Not going meeting older strangers online! Whatever, maybe I'm the different one let's not judge, on to the suicide, she could've simply waited a little longer to get out of high school and let the whole cyber bullying incident pass over. Or she could've deleted her social media account and had to deal with only school and the bullying there.

Resources:

-Google search: Amanda Todd

-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOHXGNx-E7E

There are many ways to learn about cyber bullying and why we shouldn't let such a thing from happening (cyber bullying). I've done certain activities back in my grade school (St-Edmond, represent). So many of the activities were naturally boring because cyber bullying was just never a problem in my life (never been cyber bullied).There were activities such as write a short answer (réponse courte) about a subject involving cyber bullying. And we all know just how scary a short answer can be because it's no where near short, (takes off jacket) "man hold me back, i said hold me back". Okay now that i calmed down, back to cyber bullying.

The other way is a little more fun, just kidding it's a lot more fun, it's when we do plays in class. Now this way was always hilarious because no one in my 8th grade class was good at acting other then Camelia, so it was funny seeing people bust their butts off trying to keep their cool and not bursting into laughter (especially when the audience tried with all their hearts to make that person laugh).

Now the most fun way was when we watched a professional play made by M. Noecker and his drama students. I hear he's the best drama teacher in all of North America and he also teaches English. Therefore, he used to bring his students and present a few hilarious plays, and this time they were actually rehearsed and the play itself was funny but still I can see the message behind the comedy. In my opinion, this by far the best and probably the only effective way to prevent cyber bullying because after the play we would ask them simple questions but their answers were so precise that it got me reflecting on what I've done, if I cyber bullied someone and all that fun stuff.

Now this is the saddest play I've ever seen (not M. Noecker's play) but i just wanted to show you what it looks like.

Lastly, I haven't and will never do this but there is donations that can be made to "stop cyber bullying". I can't stand seeing these kind of scams because first, it makes no sense. Cyber bullying can't be stopped by picking up money from others, it won't find the person behind it either. All donations will do is make you feel like your helping the victim when they are probably still getting bullied. The best way to help someone is to actually try, and by that i mean try and track him down (bully).

Resources:
-M. Noecker's drama class
-My grade school (8th grade)
-http://www.endcyberbullying.org/donate/
-YouTube (cyber bullying play)

There are many ways to do such an evil thing (cyber bully). I can assure you that non of them are pleasant to neither the victim nor the bully. Its unpleasant because it hurts to be picked on day and day where everyone can see what is happening but don't bother to ask for the truth behind the problem going on. For the bully it's bad because you should feel like crap after ruining the life of an innocent person, but if you don't, I think you're on the wrong planet.

 The first way can be done by simply making fun of the person (not lightly) by posting things about them that are most likely lies and very demeaning. Another way that is even worse, it is when the bully and his or her messed up mind decide to make a fake account in the name of the victim on any social media like Twitter, and then post a bunch of lies of things that the victim didn't do like in the movie Cyberbully (I do not recommend watching it). A smart man once said "don't people also bully be texting" (my brother), and he is right because anyone can get the phone number of the person that they want by asking friends or the person himself/herself but discretely not showing the reason behind it. Once gotten the number, the bully can then send texts of of a different phone saying rude things or even threatening the person (can also be by call using a different voice-I would do that if I where a bully). In doing so, you will leave the victim paranoid and always being careful until they collapse in despair. Just a reminder, I'm against cyber bullying and I'm not teaching you guys how to do it correctly.

Resources:
- http://www.lba.k12.nf.ca/cyberbullying/methods.htm
- Brother
- Movie (Cyberbully)

Cyber bullying is a common thing that happens in so many places corrupting so many people. What is cyber bullying? It is a form of bullying easier and doesn't include physical violence at all, it is bullying someone ONLINE. That means on social media such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and more. It is a cruel thing to do that is usually done by the people who have not liked that person for a long time so I never understood why it was so hard for the persons getting bullied to find the person behind it. I don't think this is as common but it is also done by someone who could be jealous of the victim or something that he/she has, and i also never understood that either because the bully could simply be his friend and he could probably share the things he was jealous of before. After reading that, you could say i don't understand much of anything.

    Bullying (physical) is not a pretty thing, it can cause injuries and bruise even the heart (pretty wise), but when someone sees what has happened to the victims faces, they will ask questions in order to help them (or at least they should be). In the case of a cyber bullying victim, there are no physical indications that something wrong has happened unless there are cuts on their wrist (that are usually covered). Since there is no way to know, there is also no way to help because the victim always keeps in a secret thinking they can deal with it until it gets out of hand and something regrettable happens. Which makes cyber bullying the worst kind of bullying because it cant be prevented. Just in case you are a victim, please report it.

Cyber bullying leaves the worst scars of all, that is to the heart and the brain because eventually the person will start to believe what is being said about him/her and that's when it would be too late, unless they have a strong self esteem.

Resources:
-Learned, heard and seen all this information in grade school.
-My wise brain
-Google images