There are many ways “bad behavior” can take place in an online setting. For example, January of 2018 two 12-year-old girls were arrested after a 12-year-old named Gabriella Green committed suicide after she was cyber bullied. After talking to the police, the two girls confessed to cyber bullying Gabriella and there was evidence found on their phones. The girls started rumors that included saying “Gabriella had STD’s, and called her vulgar names”.

The loss that happened in this particular situation is that Gabriella lost her life, all because of two girls trying to be “cool” and “funny” and call her names and spread rumors. The criminals that were involved in this incident were held accountable when the police arrested them  and searched their phones. It is sad that Gabbie had to lose her life to others being careless, but we can not bring her back so all we can hope for in the future is that others will learn from this incident.

I think that parents can also learn from this. For example, in this particular school district Police said they discovered many children close to the same age with unmonitored social media accounts. So many parents have no idea what their children are doing online. I think everyone needs to come together as a community and make a plan on how they can try and keep kids safer.

Reading articles about this incident I learned and was kind of reminded how mean kids can be behind a screen. They tend to be meaner when they have no one there to say it to in-person. I also realized that many guardians have no idea what is going in their kids lives and even if they do check their social media accounts it is likely that kids are finding a way around their security to be bullies.