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-JHANZEL UY

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In today’s generation and as a student, I realized that cyber bullying is still spreading in the country where technology rise and many people have been affected by this. Cyber bullying is a serious matter where teens are experiencing being bullied through name-calling, body-shamed, and being told with hurtful words and this is rampant in the social media world. Many teenagers are troubled and are afraid to share this happening with their parents because we teens mostly keep ourselves with our own and, I have experienced cyber bullying. When I was in my first year of high school I was bullied because of how I am built. I’m built differently preferably called the bigger one on my high school days and all my classmates are bullying me for having that body. They always bully me online, on Facebook. I know how cyber bullying will cause me. It is never right to call names and step on people’s dignity and life. That moment it leads me to depression where their words are slowly devouring and hurting me. As a victim of this kind of act, I stand to stop this and spread a message to people that never hurt someone just for you to feel superior and better. We are all born unique and different so in this world with rising technology and social media where it is becoming the place for the digital world, we should be careful with our words. As always being said “think before you click” and make use of these media to widen our knowledge and understanding to every people and to what’d happened in our every day. Cyber bullying is a serious thing that needs to be fully stopped. This is for people to empower and build self-confidence without restrictions. People who do cyberbully should pay for their actions, never tolerate and leave them to continue doing it. As for other victims of cyber bullying, their words may hurt but think more of your value and your happiness you must work and believe yourself so as I working that in my every day.

-Grant S.

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As a youth of today’s generation, where technology has risen, and a student I realized that cyber bullying is a serious matter that mostly of the teens has experience and I experience it too. When I was just a freshman student in high school, I used to be bullied because I can’t pronounce correctly the letter “s”. I also experience bullying because of my weight.Sometimes I fought back but sometimes I didn’t. They used to bully me at facebook timeline(post and comments). It lead me to conclusion that cyber bullying should not be a thing to conclude every teens especially when you are 13 to 15 years old. Because when I experience it, I couldn’t help myself but to cry and cry and I don’t have no one to talk about.

So I say to myself that I should not let those bully ruin my self confidence that I am working that day.

 So for all those bullies, that is so constantly bullying other people whether it is in physical world or online world, you should  stop it because everyone of us has a different struggles. We should be a blessing to everyone and not a burden and work for ourselves.

-Shereal T.

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#AntiCyberbullyingAdvocacy #LearningAboutIct #Safety #Awareness

-Jian O.

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-Althaea J.

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“Bullying victims are 9 times more likely to commit suicide. A keyboard away doesn’t make it okay.” - https://www.geckoandfly.com/

Our team as a whole has experienced cyber bullying, from body shaming, to online discrimination etc. Not only did it hurt us emotionally and physically, it made us question our mental status as we began to feel insecurities rushing in and having the urge to physically hurt ourselves. We don’t want any other kid, teenager, or even adult to experience the same thing which is why we spread awareness regarding this topic. 

Your fantasy is their misery. 

Think before you post. One wrong word can destroy a person’s life forever. 

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This is Tina Meier, she is the founder and the executive director of the Megan Meier foundation which also aims to create a cyber bullying free world.

“The Megan Meier Foundation was founded by Tina Meier in 2007 after her daughter Megan took her own life following a cruel cyber bullying hoax by an adult neighbor posing as a fictitious boy on MySpace. Since its inception, MMF  has grown into a global bullying and cyber bullying prevention foundation. Through education, prevention, and intervention we work to support and inspire actions to end bullying, cyber bullying, and suicide.” - Megan Meier Foundation

Their foundation really did caught our attention since it is a story of a mother that lost her child and is now advocating against the reason behind her daughter’s suicide in order to make sure that no other kid would ever have to go through what her daughter went through which is truly beautiful. 

To Tina Meier, you are an amazing women that helped a ton of kids and people out there. Your daughter is surely proud of you and so are we. We will follow your footsteps as we push through with our advocacy

Together, let’s create a cyber bullying free world.

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TEENS ARE CYBER BULLYING THEMSELVES

There are times where we are also victims of our own selves and that also applies with cyber bullying. Is is really possible for us to bully ourselves?

Here’s a story of Hannah Smith to rest this case.

Hannah Smith was a 14-year-old living in Lutterworth, England, when she began receiving hateful messages on the social-networking site Ask.fm. A few weeks later, she committed suicide.

Convinced their daughter was a victim of cyber bullying, her family called for the question-and-answer site to be shut down. But when Ask.fm officials investigated what happened, they found that 98 percent of the messages sent to Hannah could be tracked back to her own IP address.

Hannah had been anonymously posting the derogatory comments about herself—something known as digital self-harm. Source: edweek.org

A group conducted a research regarding this with 6,000 respondents and 6% revealed that they in fact cyber bullied themselves.

“These are youth who are knowingly and intentionally posting negative messages about themselves—and reporting that they did so to researchers. We should be deeply concerned that there are young people out there who are struggling and not getting the support that they need,” researcher Danah Boyd said in an email.

Our advocacy also aims to stop self harm in the web and inform people how beautiful and worthy they are. To all people who are reading this, you are loved and you are worthy, love yourself more.

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This is a story of Megan Meier and how she suffered due to cyber bullying. I hope this would be lesson to everyone that a few hurtful words can take someone’s life. Our advocacy aims that no one would ever have to suffer from cyber bullying like Megan Meier ever again as we spread awareness of the possible aftermaths of someone’s jokes and offensive words online.

Megan Meier’s story shall be remembered.

In memory of Megan Meier.

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You always have to remember that bullies want to bring you down because you have something they admire. Also, when you get made fun of— When people point out your weaknesses, it’s an opportunity for you to rise above.

Zac Efron (via zefron-obsessed)

Here’s a quote from Zac Efron to lighten up the mood. To all cyber bullying victims out there, this is your opportunity to rise above all else.

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Important Things We Should Know About Cyber-Bullying

Cyber bullying can happen on platforms like social media. It is repeated behavior, aimed toward scaring, angering or shaming those that are targeted. Most of the teenagers this day uses social media and that's why cyberbullying cases rises every year and we need to put and end that kind of problem because no one should be bullied either it's online or offline we should always know and learn to respect each other because once you bully someone in social media it'll spread throughout his/her circle of friends and that person who has been bullied will suffer any kind of problems for example anxiety or depression. That's why we need to help those people who have suffer from cyberbullying because we never know what he/she have to overcome to get better and those people need someone to talk to so that they will not go the point that the only answer they have is to put an end in their lives because people who have been bullied online needs attention and care so that they will get better everyday and continue living because that's what we supposed to do in our lives to live happily and peacefully.

-Jhanzel

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Effects of techs

Hi our advocacy’s  aim is to help the cyber bullying victims i know. Nowadays cyber bullying activities is anywhere in Social media many people are affected of Cyber bullying because of Messaging apps or social apps then here's our advocacy to stands against Cyber bullying activities we encourage people to fight against Cyberbully activities to those victims of Cyberbully or to those folks that interested to stop cyber bullying completely this is our chance let's try to help each other. We decided to move forward with this advocacy to not only help current victims but to also help future ones by preventing the cyber bullying from happening.

-Grant S.

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Cyber Bullying

We chose Cyber bullying as our Advocacy as today's generation has been all about social media. We tend to go all out on social media without thinking we could be bullying someone, we tend to just click, type and post without thinking if the ones we post, type or say is really okay. We need to be aware of what we do generally on social media because Cyber bullying doesn’t just affect someone online but it affects them mentally and we need to be sensitive about that because it's not that easy to be depressed just because someone who doesn’t truly know you bullied or attacked you on social media. We don’t know each other and we definitely don’t know what's going on with each other's lives so let us all be kind and respect each other whether in person or online.

-Therese O.

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Online Bullying

Cyber bullying, is a type of bullying which involves any digital devices like computers, cellphones and tablets. It is also one of the most used bullying, especially these days, that we are now in the technology era because it can occur in SMS, Facebook, Instagram, Messenger and any other apps and most of the people have an account of the said application. This type of bullying is open for all ages, whether you are an infant, a teenager or even a senior citizen. We, as a future generation of this era, should be careful and think before we post something on any media platforms because it can destroy someone's dignity.

-Shereal T.

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Against Cyber bullying

Bullying is one of the most common issues today worldwide. Many forms of bullying are happening especially in the field of LGBTQQ++, they experience different insults or bullying. Cyber bullying, is one of the many forms of bullying that uses internet to insult people or post something online that can harm other people or that can give people a bad reputation that you post about him/her. Against cyber bullying is our advocacy to plan to publish, in order to help people avoid doing such things and also to avoid people to be a victim of this kind of bullying. We were planning to give such platforms or steps to be more aware and to secure themselves about cyber bullying. If you are one of the many people who is a victim of cyber bullying, report it so that the bully  gets a penalty for doing such things. If you were the one who committed cyber crime, please do stop and be sensitive towards other people if what they are feeling if you did those actions against them. Is it fun to do it? Destroying someone’s reputations publicly and posting something about him/her that can downgrade his/her confidence or other negative effects to them, can that bring you happiness? 

-Jian O.

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Let’s stop it.

Hello there! We would like to introduce our advocacy which is the Anti Cyber Bullying advocacy. Our advocacy aims to help cyber bullying victims as well as lessen future cyber bullying cases through spreading awareness of the possible effects of such cyber bullying activities. Cyber bullying is more prone nowadays due to the excessive exposure to gadgets and new technologies that are inclined with social media and a huge amount of websites on the web. And with this, our advocacy seeks the help of people who are also interested to stop cyber bullying completely. Please reach out to us and we will do the same, let’s hold hands together, let’s help each other to battle our way out from cyber bullying. Let’s create a cyber bullying free world.

- Althaea J.