The internet has taken this world by storm, whirling around us until it's the only thing we can focus on. Parents ignore their children to play on Facebook and kids aren't doing their homework because they're more worried about making their next tweet.

But what has me worried the most, is how the internet and social media has made it possible for bullies to go beyond the classroom and beyond school grounds. People are becoming enemies where they once were friends due to spreading rumors and embarrassing pictures. People are able to pretend to be other people, or pretend to be someone's friend just to simply get information they can spread to hurt the person.

How in the world did it ever come to this? These social media sites are to be for fun, to be able to connect with friends and family who maybe aren't near you. But they're being used for bullying and there have been suicides due to how much people were getting bullied via social media and also in the real world.

A name I'm sure most of the people who will read this will know is Amanda Todd. She was persuaded to flash a stranger via video chat, and the stranger took a picture of her to use to blackmail her then let it spread across the internet. The man kept stalking her, she was bullied very frequently, and she killed herself in October of 2012.

Some of the bigger cases started with someone sending a picture to someone they trusted, but then that picture was sent to hundreds of other people that the person who first sent the photo didn't know or trust.

Two big cases with cyberbullying resulting in suicide were Ryan Halligan and Megan Meier. Both of them had struggles, academically and physically, that made them targets. People pretended to be their friends but then spread awful rumors about them. Megan was struggling with ADD as well as depression already before she was 'befriended' by a boy who turned his back on her.

Now, you can look up any of these cases and read how it's teenagers. But something came to light to me the other day. Not only have teenagers done this, but so have adults. The picture of the post and comments I'm sharing have been reported and taken down, but it's just the point that adults are bullying, too.

I am in no way trying to say what this boy did was okay, because it wasn't. But I do want to point out that at least the boy went back and picked it up. I know of plenty of people who probably would have looked at Megan's boyfriend and said something much ruder than calling him "daddy".

However, there is a problem when there are adults posting things like this on social media and saying others should give the boy grief as well because of what he did. How is that going to teach the boy anything but to hate people more and therefore act out even worse?

I don't know what more I can say. It starts with parents and trusted adults teaching kids it isn't okay to bully and hurt others. It starts with people not being fake and getting people to trust them, only to stab their 'friend' in the back.

It starts with you speaking out and stopping it when you see it. By becoming a true friend to the people who need it the most.