'Phoebe Prince' By Helen Kennedy: Article Analysis

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Posting status’s, sharing pictures, and direct messaging are just a few ways in which social media is used amongst people. In an article written by Helen Kennedy titled “Phoebe Prince, South Hadley High School’s ‘new girl,’ driven to suicide by teenage cyber bullies,” discusses the story of a high school girl who was bullied physically and via social media and drove her to her suicide. Phoebe Prince was just an average teenager from Ireland who was driven to suicide by her classmates. She received several unpleasant comments on her social media sites, such as “Irish slut” and “whore.” Day after day her books were knocked out of her hands by classmates passing by, photographs of her posted on school walls were drawn on, and she was receiving