BULLYING THROUGH MEDIA

Cyber-bullying can be as simple as continuing to send e-mail to someone who has said they want no further contact with the sender, ganging up on victims by making them the subject of ridicule in forums, and posting false statements as fact aimed at humiliation
“Cyberbullying is any harassment that occurs via the Internet. Vicious forum posts, name calling in chat rooms, posting fake profiles on web sites, and mean or cruel email messages are all ways of cyberbullying.”
http://teenadvice.about.com/od/schoolviolence/a/cyberbullying1.htm

In the past, fighting against others at school or having problems with classmates was considered a common stage of childhood, but now it is considered a very serious issue.
According to research done in other countries at least one out of four students have suffered some type of bullying, (in USA and Europe).
Technology has provided new ways to bother classmates. Examples include social sites in the web as facebook, twitter, hi5, myspace, and metroflog. Bullies threaten to upload content that would humiliate their victims. Bullies use photos and offensive comments to belittle their victims.
“The detachment afforded by cyberspace makes bullies out of people who would never become involved in a real life incident. The Internet makes bullying more convenient and since the victim’s reaction remains unseen people who wouldn’t normally bully don’t take it as seriously.”
http://teenadvice.about.com/od/schoolviolence/a/cyberbullying1.htm
In these web sites bullied boys and girls are threatened by uploading funny pictures of them, posting offensive comments about a shameful situation. At the times photos don´t actually exist they are made up and sometimes stalkers even upload videos where all the violence they imposed is recorded.
Kids that suffer from bullying see school as the most horrible place in the world and their home would be a shelter where they are safe out of violence, but now thanks to internet, even if they are at home they can become victims of bullying.
There are several ways of cyber-bullying for example: a person may send offensive e-mails without any consequence because they can do it in an anonymous way, they may also make up a profile of the victim as if they are the victim, using victim´s identity. Some others can spread rumors about some one causing him or her lot of troubles.
“While ignoring the bully be sure to save the evidence so that school officials, Internet providers and even the police can properly deal with the bully. Cyber-bullying may give bullies anonymity but it always leaves evidence.”
http://teenadvice.about.com/od/schoolviolence/a/cyberbullying1.htm

CONCLUSION
Parents may pay attention to what their kids do on the web, so these kind of stuff do not happen any more, also, they joined by school´s teachers should be concious of what information kids may upload in their profiles and what they should not, so they can transmit that to kids.Victims should not respond to any of the abuse they receive. The abuse should be saved as evidence that can be used in the future to punish the bully.