Because if you're a victim of cyber bullying you don't know how to deal with that and you've already read it by that point, and you listen because you already have horrible self-esteem.
Or just delete the account you don't need Facebook or any of that other crap and then go out until you figure out that your life is awesome and that you don't need other's approval. Screw people, be independent
sure, that's what they should do, but the fact is they don't, because if they knew how to deal with it, no one would give a fuck about cyber bullying anyway. It's not like that just become a new possibility. And even if they do delete their account A) they will still think about everything the bully said /forever/. B) you don't know what their 'awesome' life is like off the internet either. They could have abusive parents, or tons of bullies offline as well. No one who is fine offline is going to care what some dickhead on a forum said about their face.
If you refuse to just walk away, it's not really bullying is it, because it is self-inflicted. It also makes you a little bitch just out for sympathy and self-pity. You need to stop focusing on the negatives, it's not healthy. Get professional help if you need to, but I'm not going to feel sorry for you if you keep running back into the lion's den; that's on you.
Yeah, obviously if people are calling you bad things and insulting you, you're out for sympathy and self-pity. Just because they might walk away doesn't make the problem any better. They will still think about all of the bad things people said, even if they stop reading it and leave the site. Maybe if they stick around it means they just want to fit in somewhere. Which, by the way, isn't going to happen in a therapist's office. By the way, there are people whose parents don't believe in therapy so they /can't/ get professional help. I've never been cyber bullied, but I have been depressed in the past. I was suicidal, and when I finally tried to get help, even though I had numerous councellors talking to my mom about it, she still refused to take me to therapy, because I just needed to get over it. It worked out, luckily, but you don't know what other people's lives are like.
So, what I gather is that the cyber-bullying is only a factor due to their offline issues? I have no argument for that, as it makes sense. What I'm wondering is, why does the cyber bullying get all the attention lately, as opposed to the root problem(s)?
I'm assuming it's because warning people about child abuse isn't going to do any good. If you're an ass enough to hit your child, telling you that that's wrong isn't going to do any good. You know when your kid flinches and cries that what you're doing probably isn't good, so why would someone telling you it isn't make a difference? Cyber bullies probably have more of a conscience most of the time, and often don't realize the consequences of their actions because they never see the person they're talking to. They can never see what they're doing to a person, so raising awareness is an attempt to get them to think about it.
Around where I live, cyber bullies aren't really getting any emphasis anymore. There's this pinwheel thing to raise awareness about child abuse and neglect, there's something for suicide and depression awareness, and they talk about avoiding porn. Those are the closest things to cyber bullying lectures my home gets now.
Your argument is now invalid.