Monica Lewinsky: A Victim Of Cyberbullying

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Secrets always lean into Untold facts and unknown anomaly's. The internet was built to expand the knowledge of life everywhere, for communication, and much more. With that said, there is also cons, the internet is not perfect that’s pretty clear but as humans we all should have saw this coming. Cyber bullying is a growing problem in the internet world today It destroys families, life's, the way people see things, and how they act. Monica Lewinsky was a victim of this harmful treatment and I have to agree with her that no one should have to go through this. Cyberbullying was leading to suicidal ideations more significantly then offline bullying. Everyday online, people especially young people who are not developmentally equipped to handle …show more content…

This tells me something, it shows that people are hiding behind a screen to inflict some kind of emotional pain on a significant other as an advantage other then bullying in person, "research determined that humiliation was a more intensely felt emotion then happiness or anger," said Lewinsky. I feel she means that words really do hurt people; and they feel the emotions they get just as much as happiness or anger. Cyberbullies seek to humiliate there target as much as they can, and they feel safe doing it; They feel uncatchable and …show more content…

"A marketplace has emerged where public humiliation is a commodity and shame is an industry" People nowadays are able to make money off the very pain they give to another person. Shaming is just getting to be a more a more popular thing, with that also more accepted. I understand this is the first amendment, but making money off another persons suffering just shouldn’t be legal. The internet is sometimes made out to be secure and protected, unluckily hackers pose a threat to sometimes be able to expose that content you very wished to keep secret; Then that’s how the humiliation and the shaming is