Amanda Todd, cyberbullying og sociale medier

Back in October of 2012, a teenager from Port Coquitlam, British Columbia committed suicide due to her struggles with bullying and cyber-bullying. At the age of 12, Amanda Todd was taken advantage of when an older male persuaded her to flash her breasts on an online webcam group chat. Someone screenshotted it and sent it around to all of Amanda’s Facebook friends and her life took a turn for the worst. From then on, she would continuously receive threats and hate comments both online and in person. Through these events, Amanda’s struggles with depression and anxiety skyrocketed. She moved around to many different towns and schools although the photo haunted her everywhere, she went, the bullying never stopped. In September of 2012, Amanda posted a soon-to-be viral YouTube video titled “My story: Struggling, bullying, suicide, self-harm” telling her story about her struggles with bullying. Soon after in October 10, 2012, Amanda Todd took her own life in her home. And now 7 years after the video have 20 million views.

Cyberbullying:

Cyberbullying is the use of digital technologies with an intent to offend, humiliate or abuse somebody. you can hardly avoid being bullied online, you always have a phone or computer on, at school, at work and at home so it is almost impossible to avoid it.