Gone Too Far

Social media has always been a huge part of our life. As technology keeps improving and continues having a huge influence on our lives. The negative side of it is catching up to us. With everything new to our society, we somehow find some way to twist it into a bad thing. Bullying has gone to a whole new level with social media. With all of the freedom everyone has online, someone was bound going to go overboard sooner than later. Cyberbullying the new present way of bullying taken place online. What is different about cyberbullying is that people who are suffering from this are finding is really hard to get away from it. Cyberbullying can happen 24/7, and reach the person whenever they are online, all the time. Cyberbullying has become a serious issue in our society.

Bullying can happen to anyone, to kids, adults, and to even celebrities. Now, some of us may think that celebrities do not deal with what we have to deal with. That is absolutely untrue, we have got to remember that celebrities are still human beings with feelings. They are not any different from us. Just because they are rich and famous does not mean we get to reach them any differently, or for the right for us to target them. Celebrities get many death threats, hate, and judgment from the social media, especially Twitter. Most celebrities have Twitter accounts, which many of their fans follow them so they can have daily updates on them. However, on Twitter there are many haters who will do anything to ruin their mood. Celebrities can receive a million of supportive and happy tweets, but one hate tweet can ruin their day. It can at least take one hate tweet to ruin someone's mood. Being a celebrity is very hard, you do not just have the paparazzi following your every move, you have the whole world watching you. It is like you are trapped, one bad move that is it, your career can be over.  It is sad to that hate is something normal for celebrities to encounter, since now everyone is going to be supporting you or like you.

The million dollar question would be why do people think it is alright to send hate to celebrities? There can be million of answers to why people do it. However, I think it is mainly because people are jealous since celebrities are rich and famous. They are living the dream anyone would do anything to have it. We are clouded by our jealously we do not see what it is doing or causing to them. None of us stop to think, do they read it? We may think that since they are really busy with things they would not go online and scroll through the tweets and see the hate they are sending to them. But we could not be any more wrong than that. They can start believing it, and get depressed by it. Which can turn into a serious problem because they can end of hurting themselves because of some people who were just jealous of what others have that they cannot have.

Another reason why people do this can be for a joke. They might suddenly decide to send hate for fun, thinking what harm can one hate tweet do. We cannot always assume that just because one thing cannot affect them, we can just do it. A lot of people might think of what you are thinking, so imagine the number of thinking sending hate of the same reason why you are sending hate. The numbers will keep adding up and it will just keep on going. This is a never ending process, hate cannot be stopped it is just the downside of social media. There are ways of sending awareness to people of how the simplest tweet can affect someone. But there will always be that one person who will continue doing it, even if they are fully aware of the damage it can cause.

I think we can just do our best and send awareness everyone of cyberbullying and bullying. We should keep talking about it and have people realize how badly it keeps getting till this day. I also think that we should have some restrictions on social media like Facebook or Twitter so people can start feeling safe online. All we can do is try and keep trying until the message becomes clear to people, no matter how long it takes.