REAL STORY

When talking about social media, many people associate it with communicating and speaking with friends. Most people don’t often look at social media as harmful, well at least until it impacts their whole lives in an awful way. Imagine a 9 year old girl having to overhear her family talking about her cousin’s suicide attempt due to harassment and bullying on social media, in other words welcome to my childhood. As I was 9 my cousin had started online dating this guy she had never even seen, well as predicted, she was cat fished and it was a person with a complete fake identity, it was these 2 girls in her class trying to hold something against her. These girls then started posting the conversations that were going on and exposed her on Instagram for everyone to see. She was devastated, she became depressed and starting cutting herself, she even tried a suicide attempt, thankfully she failed and she was taken in and taken care of. However, here we see how social media can really be too much and too stressful. Teens need to be careful who they are speaking to, and need to be couscous of someone else’s feelings. Harassing each other and bullying each other until this happens is not okay. We need to be better, we need to do better.