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Bullying used to consist of adolescent teasing with an occasional wet wily or swirly in the toilet. The past decade proved that bullying is no longer as innocent as it once compared to today's extreme bullying cases on television. Children no longer fear of bulling at school. But now they have to put up with stress at home due to the surge of cyber bullying. Social networking websites such as Myspace and Facebook are vicious tools used by bullies to ruin lives. The anti-bullying website isafe.org said, "58% have not told their parents or an adult about something mean or hurtful that happened to them online."

According to how-to-stop-bullying.com said, Illinois was listed made the top three in 2007 for bullying, which isn't an accomplishment ever worth mentioning. Bullying has become such a horrible ordeal for today's youth that some are taking extreme measures like committing suicide. No parent wants to conduct a funeral for their child because they were bullied severely that living life for them had became questionable. According to the CNN online article, "Prosecutor: 9 teens charged in bullying that led to girl's suicide" by the CNN Wire Staff, "Nine Massachusetts teenagers have been charged with the involvement in a months-long campaign of bullying that led to the suicide in January of a 15-year-old girl." Phoebe Prince was bullied both at home and school for months. When Prince did not have to endure brutal teasing on school grounds she was battling them over social networking websites. CNN's article continued to explain the extent of Prince's bullying.

Cyber bullying at home from social networking sites is one of the many reasons why Phoebe committed suicide. It doesn't make any sense that the school couldn't have stopped the children at school from bullying this 15-year-old girl. Staff, administrations and many of the students knew about Prince's constant bullying. CNN's article qouted District Attorney Elizabeth D. Scheibel saying, "Phoebe had been harassed as she studied in the library at South Hadley High School, apparently in the presence of a faculty member and several students, none of whom reported it until after the girl's death."

YouTube was used in recent years to share the humiliation of teenagers being bullied. Wftv.com's article, "Girls Record Brutal Attack On Teen To Allegedly Post On YouTube" said, "When 16-year-old Victoria Lindsay arrived at her friend's house where she had been staying, six girls were waiting. Immediately, they started yelling and one girl began pummeling the victim." The vicious beating of Victoria was recorded and uploaded on YouTube. The article explained the severity of the attack, "The 16-year-old suffered a concussion, eye injuries and several bruises."

Prince's demise and Lindsay's beating could have been the death of anyone else's daughter, son, sister or brother. The emotional and mental suffering children face needs to be stopped by the proper authorities instead of being disregarded as adolescent mischief.

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