Dangers of InternetThe Internet has become the most widely used means of communication with people in other parts of the world. The internet provides a variety of meeting places, form message boards to so-called social networking sites. Todays society is spending lot of time on the internet, on these social networks unaware of what the dangers are. Internet maybe incredibly useful but the dangers far outweigh the benefits. There are various kinds of dangers that can make an individual psychologically and sociologically weak such as, cyber bullying, sexual predators, gambling and finally data theft.
Youth are very naive, young and eager to learn, the internet is a perfect place to get the most information, but they are unaware of the dangers they might experience. On the internet the individual is exposed to cyber bullying, when peers bully through the use of instant messages or e-mails. Todays society thinks that cyber bullying is same as a schoolyard bullying, which can be resolved by telling an adult or a supervisor who can solve this. That incorrect cyber bullying differs from schoolyard bullying, because cyber bullies dont witness their victims reactions, which makes it easier for them to continue their harassments (WebMD, 2007). The victims of cyber bullying dont usually revel that they are being bullied because they are afraid that their parents might overreact or yank their internet privileges.
Victim can be greatly affected if the cyber bullying continues for a long period. Victims grades will fall due to the fact that they are afraid to go to school because they feel extremely insecure to leave their house. The victim will also become psychologically down, the individual will often get angry, sad and will go into a severe depression. They will develop various kinds of feelings/fears such as, fear of being lonely, feeling of helplessness, they will become paranoid, so its hard for them to meet new people and make friends, and most importantly they will feel unwanted in the society which may lead them to commit suicide (InfoSec, 2009).
There have been a lot of victims of cyber bullying in the past few years, one of the well-known victim was Megan Taylor Meier. She was American teenager from Missouri who committed suicide at the age of 13. Her suicide was credited to cyber-bullying through the social networking website MySpace. The account through which the bullying took place supposedly belonged to a 16 year old boy. Megan Meier developed a friendly relationship with this boy, later on it developed to an advanced stage, where the exchanged compliments and love messages. One day Megan received numerous hateful messages such as “I dont want to be your friend anymore” and “The world would be a better place without you” etc. She then had an argument with her mother and went upstairs to her room, she was found twenty minutes later,
From the inside, all of a sudden, I could feel a dark, powerful emotional effect on me.
My body trembles, my mind goes dark until it is finally safe to talk.
My body slowly starts to shake but, eventually, my strength is restored.
Within the next twenty minutes..
I feel my body return to normal.
Once an hour, on the third day and still feeling the same energy…
My body is back to being normal.
Once a day, on the fourth day and still feeling the same energy…
One hour later, my body turns back to normal again.
My body doesn’t get any stronger.
The feeling of energy returned, my body is back to normal again.
Every night I wake up in a feeling of energy similar to when I was a little boy.
Sleep, and the feeling again.
Every night, there is no sound anymore. Then they will wake me up, I think about that for one minute, it becomes really scary for me and they are scared. Then again, it doesn’t seem like anyone has killed me or hurt me by anyone else even remotely for a few decades.
Some time before I went to sleep, it took me a while to wake up again. Then I woke up again, but I also didn’t feel tired. After that, I felt happy, but in the short time it took me to get on a train…
On the second day when I woke up, I felt like my body was getting stronger until I stopped breathing. I felt like my body was growing stronger. Then, it became really hard for me to get on the train, I thought about how I would be like a cat crying for it to wake me up, I could imagine how my body would shake and get very angry.
On this third day, I went back in time to see how many times I had gone back to the same place it started. It seemed like I would never go back.
On this third day, I went back to the same place the whole time, I could have done something differently. Then, it was so strange. But after a long time, my body wasn’t doing anything strange, I could feel it again. I remember thinking, then thinking about it a bit but, well, it’s too bad too. I didn’t know what to do about it, I thought. When I went back in time, no idea how to wake me up. That night, I got into sleep and it was completely different. I woke up again and, for a deep breath, did the same thing I did three times before