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Essay / Amanda Todd, victim of cyberbullying - 1224
The story of Georgia Woods is a good example. She was bullied for six months straight. People at her school were creating web pages dedicated to making fun of her. She said: “They made me feel alone, like I had no one, making me feel worthless” (Newsbeat). Woods even began receiving hate mail and text messages from numbers she didn't know. Woods never told his parents about the banned messages or how it made him feel. One day, her mother took the sheets off her bed and found a poem that talked about bullying. Woods' mother discovered that her daughter had been contemplating suicide from a poem she found under her sheets. This is not how a mother should find out her daughter is being bullied. Why would she write a poem about her manipulation? Why didn't she tell her mother right away? Georgia Woods encourages anyone experiencing bullying to speak up and tell someone. Woods also said, “If you're being bullied at school, you can come home and you're safe. With cyberbullying, you feel trapped” (Newsbeat). With cyberbullying, victims cannot escape it. Cyberbullying can hurt a person emotionally. It can destroy a person emotionally. Even though Georgia Woods survived bullying, not everyone is as strong and emotional.