A halt to cyber bullying

http://www.good.is/posts/a-new-program-scours-twitter-for-school-bullying/?utm_campaign=goodtweet&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social


Bullying has been considered a social problem for many years. Many people use to think bullying ended outside of school, and once the child was home he was now safe. Schools and teachers always be trying to stop bullying but now a days with Facebook, Twitter and other similar social media websites, bullying has reached other levels

. Children are now being bullied outside of class, in a place where there are no teachers, principles, or detention, the Internet. For the past five years thousands of children and teenagers have been bullied through the Internet. These children and teens are not being physically harmed, but mentally harmed which leads to many horrible things, like drinking problems, drugs, and even suicide. With this new way of bullying, now considered cyber bullying, many teens and even children have taken their life’s because of cyber bullying.

 Twitter has now created a program that actually scouts tweets that are considered cyber bullying.  Even though millions of tweets are send each day, this new program has actually identified 15,000 cyber bullying tweets. I feel like this program is one of the greatest things twitter has done since its existence.  I believe if twitter keeps this program running and motivates other social medias to make a similar program, cyber bullying would finally come to a halt. Bullying has always been a social problem but with programs like this maybe one day bullying in general would end.