“I felt upset, scared and lonely,” Sally* said. “It felt like everyone was against me.”
“I posted a status on Facebook about me and my boyfriend breaking up,” Sally said. “A bunch of girls said it was because I was ugly and fat, and that I deserved it. No one cared how I felt.” All of Sally’s depression and harassment came from one simple Facebook status.
“I became really depressed. I let it get to me a lot which only made it worse,” she said. “They could see it breaking me which only seemed to make them do it even more.”
Bullying has lead people to as much as suicide from cyberbullying. In this case, it lead to depression and insecurities rather then their life.
“It continued for about a week or two, then I realized I needed to do something,” she said. “I talked to my mom about it. She reassured me that I didn’t deserve it and called their parents.
Though “it may seem like you’re being being childish and telling on someone,”  it was the smartest thing Sally did.
“If I saw someone being cyber bullied today, I would tell them to tell an adult immediately,” she said. “It’s the smartest decision you can make to handle. It’s the most mature choice you could make to stop all the hurtful things people say to you. People realize it’s wrong once they see what it’s really doing to you.”
In cases of bullying, many students choose to go to the office to alert them.
“We have people come to us almost every day,” Ms. Hitchcock said. “At least two people per week.”
The office can take action against cyberbullying.
“Things that people post on Facebook, can get brought to the school and we can get involved with it,” Hitchcock said. “If it does get to the school, we can give D-Hall, Denver, or as much as press assault charges against the person causing the bullying.”