Presentation 2

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On Thursday December 2, the "Jujubees" presented a group exhibition on “cyber bullying.” There are seven broad categories Intimidation, Blackmail, Posing as a threat, Identity theft, Posing as a friend, Unknown bullies and known bullies. Over 40% of teenagers tht use the internet have experienced cyber bullying. A majority of that number are girls. Cyber bullying is not a joke and those experiencing it need to understand that they are not alone. If you experience cyber bullying there are some steps you can take to get help: Tell an adult, Get off line and Do not delete the message it can be used as proof. An example of racial profilig is the case of phoebe prince and Megan Meiers. Briefly, Pheobe had issues with some girls over her relationship with two highschool boys. This led to her being bullied by her classmates. On January 14, 2010, after an entire day of harassment and taunting, followed by a final incident in which a student threw a can at her from a passing car as she walked home from school Pheobe committed suicide by hanging herself.Another example was the case of Megan Meiers. Not long after opening an account on MySpace, Meier received a request from a 16-year-old boy, Josh Evans, but actually sent by Lori Drew using a fake account. Meier and "Josh" became online friends, but never met in person or spoke. Meier began to exchange messages and seemed very happy.

On October 15, 2006, the tone of the messages changed, with Drew saying (via the account) "I don't know if I want to be friends with you anymore because I've heard that you are not very nice to your friends". Similar messages were sent. Some of Megan's messages were shared with others and bulletins were posted about her. The last message sent to her was: "Everybody in O'Fallon knows who you are. You are a bad person and everybody hates you. Have a bad rest of your life. The world would be a better place without you." Meier responded with a message reading "You’re the kind of boy a girl would kill herself over." She was found later in her bedroom closet she had hung herself. Despite attempts to revive her, she was pronounced dead the next day. A major consequence of cyber bullying is suicide. This group did an inerveiw with Dr. Helen Declerco a Professor in chemistry. She advises children to take self defence classes and has a child who has experienced bullying. Kids should also be able to accurately identify a bully. They also did a second interveiw with Ms Paulette Porter who felt that in order to combat bullying "someone should be made an example of." This case of Megan Mejers was seen in the media. Tyra banks show in particular did a bullying episode and had many stories on this situation. the groups general opinion was that the consequences should be more well known.