Cyberbullying. How do we Stop it?

Danah Boyd argues that the quick punishment that follows online bullying is doing more harm than good. Although many schools are legally required to have rules such as "zero tolerance", these rules will not solve the problem, and maybe even enhance it. To get right to the point, Boyd is right! Kids will be kids, when they're told to do something or scolded for doing the wrong thing, they're going to rebel and do the opposite of what adults want them to do. It's stereotypical but most teenagers really are like that. I think that in order to solve this problem of cyberbullying, you need to start at the root of the situation. By the time online bullying has taken place, the damage has already been done. Some kind of immediate punishment might do some good, but again, the emotional and mental damage to the victim has already been done! What I think needs to be focused on more is the prevention of online bullying rather than the punishment afterward. Show kids how much harm can be done by cyberbullying. Amanda Todd is a good example, she did virtually nothing wrong and yet she was tortured by school kids and by people that didn't even know her. Why would someone deserve that? I can't wrap my head around why kids do things like that to other people, their own peers. Was it worth it for them? How could it be, I hope they've realized how much wrong was going on. By preventing these kinds of situations before they start will dramatically decrease, in my opinion, the amount of cyberbullying that could be going on in today's generation of teenagers.