Behind the Shield of Anomynity

Danielle Lauren McInnis:  Awesome way of handling this.  I saw your status on this and how this should be handled, though.  Oh well.

Lauren Williams:  Awesome way of handling this.

Katelyn Drake:  Thanks for getting me all riled up about this :) Awesome way of handling this.

(In my original address, this was a very specific message, but I'm pretty sure you all get the picture.)

Dear Person X,  

I understand some unkind things were said about you on a particular website.  I personally enjoy making fun of people (usually because they can take it and do the same with me); however, this is drastically excessive and cowardly. Now this is the point where you think I'm going to rant dramatically over the topic of cyberbullying, but there's a different perspective through which I look on this. 

Basically some people just have some minor social issues is all.  I mean have you seen 4Chan?  This is nothing new.  All this means is that some people are going through a bad period in their life right now full of bad influences and ways of thinking.  This is simply the data, raw and straight from the factory, showing what the problem is with our machinery, or our people today.

That said, I would like to apologize on behalf of the person who simply hasn't developed enough in life (and probably has some seriously bad influences) and on behalf of the entirety Mattawan School.  Please know that this is a minor issue...IF we look at where the messages came from, and we can eliminate cyberbullying almost entirely if we focus on the development of growing individuals.

I was an angry individual once, and at one point in my life I probably would have participated based on what I knew and felt at the time. So, again, on behalf of the person who I once was and the person I am now, I write to you:

Person X, I am so sorry.  I think the world of you and I see that you're a person like anyone else.  Please know that this was my way of expressing myself to you and others simply because I don't know any other way.  Please know that I didn't and don't want you make you feel bad. This was just my main resort for handling things.  If there's any hope or chance in your heart left after the horrible things I've said toward you, I ask that you please forgive me. 

I'm sorry.  I'm so sorry.