What parents should do to get involved

Sweetland, D., & Stolberg, R. (2015, April 2). New apps encourage brutal cyberbullying. The San Diego Union Tribune. Retrieved April 9, 2015, from http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2015/apr/02/cyberbullying-apps/

The topic of this article the author states is how teens are using anonymous apps to cyber bully and things parents should do to help prevent it their child from being a victim or bully. The purpose that the writer is trying to convey is that students are using anonymous apps to post demeaning and threatening content without the fear of being caught, because no one will know who wrote it. The author also states eight things that parents should do to stay involved with their child’s use of social media sites. The author argues that children today are the same as children in past generations but the difference is that bullying isn’t done in person anymore its done over the internet and can have more effects. A negative post about someone can reach hundreds of people in the matter of minutes, and shatter a person’s self-esteem. This text would be useful for parents to see what they can do to help prevent cyber bullying.