How adults are giving children a master class in cyber-bullying

I found an article in the Irish Independent, by Aisling O'Connor from Monday 18th March 2013 on the subject of cyber-bullying. And I agree with much of it. Cyber-bullying is something that affects every age group. It's true however that perhaps the most infamous group it targets is teenagers and young people. We wonder why young people may be acting this way to eachother, and are suprised by the statistics of victimisation and suicide, which as the article say are "staggering". However, children and teenagers learn by example and I do believe that my own age group and those above have really paved the way in teaching younger people how to act, speak and deal with eachother online.

The internet may provide anonymity, but as the article highlights, people have to become much more responsible with how they use this anonymity. Even after short time on any social media sites, boards and blogs you will notice that they tend to track young celebrities like Taylor Swift, Rhianna and Justin Beiber, and capitalise on the mistakes they make, from drinking to relationship choices. Basically, mistakes that every young person famous or otherwise will make. As Aishling O'Connor states in her article, "by publicly ripping apart high achievers for their shortcomings, society is undermining it's youth-and teaching them to do the same to each other". Of course we have a problem with such severe online and cyber-bullying among young people today. Sadly, they have learned from the best.
I hope you can read the article yourself here....