“There’s no place like home.”
   Home used to be the safest place in the world, but for cyber bullied subjects, the nightmare continues.
      Every second of every day someone is bullied for being different and making mistakes.  In decades past, these people could go home and forget about the torture for a few hours.  But today, social networks are making it harder to forget.
   “Social networks make bullying easier because they give bullies something to hide behind,” senior Emily McMichael said.
  Even though this happens all the time, this form of bullying has been brought to everyone’s attention because of Amanda Todd’s story.  Todd was a Canadian girl bullied so badly over social networks that she took her own life.
  “It is an overall sad situation,” science teacher Mr. Christopher Gazze said.  “Someone shouldn’t feel the need to take their own life because of what other people say and do.”
  GS is one of the luckier schools.  Most students feel safe and aren’t threatened when they come to school.
  “I don’t particularly think we have a bullying problem,” junior Remington Monninger said.  “There are ways enforced here to prevent it.”
  There are a number of clubs at GS to help prevent bullying and provide a safe place for students to discuss their issues.  Some of these groups include S.H.O.P., the Freshman Mentoring Program and 1-2-1Club.
  “If people were going to bully someone, they would find any way to do it, not just through social media sites,” McMichael said.
   Mostly everyone who has a computer or a smartphone is a member of a social media site, whether that is Facebook, Twitter or Instagram.  Because of this popularity, much of the population would become angry if these sites were shut down due to bullying.
   “I would be very upset if social networking sites were shut down,” Monninger said.  “Social media sites aren’t the root of the problem; the bullies are.”