Cyberbullying is more serious than people think. A college student committed suicide because his roommate recorded him without him knowing. Dharun Ravi activated Tyler Clementi's webcam without him knowing and caught intumate moments of tyler and his partner. Dharun put these videos on the internet, and when tyler saw them he jumped off of the George Washington Bridge. Dharun never would have recorded Tyler face to face, so he used the internet to record him. This is why cyberbullying is so dangerous. people do things on the internet that they would never do in the real world.
The internet was designed to be a helpful tool. Some people abuse the power that the internet gives them. For example, i purchased an i-pod on Ebay last year. After the seller received my payment, he closed his account and took the money and i never got the i-pod. This proves that people do stuff on the internet that they wouldn't do in the real world. If i bought an ipod from someone face to face, there is no way that they would take the money and leave because they want to avoid confontation. That is why most bullying happens over the internet, because it can't be traced back to them.
In conclusion, cyberbullies are usually people who get bullied in the real world but are too afraid to do anything about it. So they get on their computers and they bully someone else. What happened with Tyler is tragic, a stupid joke ended up making him take his own life. Online bullies may never know how much pain they're inflicting.
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