According to a recent YouGov study, one in five teens in the UK have been a target of cyberbullying. A fifth of victims missed school as a result, with similar numbers going on to have suicidal thoughts.
Lauren Brocious, a 17-year-old student and vlogger from Winchester, Virginia, knows how that feels.
But, rather than let the bullies’ labels and words define her, she has hit back in a powerful anti-bullying video.
‘I was cyberbullied in eighth grade and I just felt like I couldn’t go to school and I couldn’t talk to people because I was so worried about what people were saying about me,’ Lauren told WHAG.
She explained: ‘My good friend was telling that she was being cyberbullied and that people were saying not very nice things about her and that kind of gave me the motivation to make a video.’
The video has now been viewed over 48,000 times… Read the full story http://ift.tt/eA8V8J December 30, 2015 at 09:51AM
