Amy Salloway’s “What it’s like to be laughed at on the Internet” central argument in this article is the effects of cyberbullying whether its direct or indirect and how she feels that it’s not just what’s on the inside that matters, everything matters. “Is this you!?” the author gets an email from her friend and in that email was a picture of a large female with long hair, big denim overalls, sitting in a chair on the treadmill watching television. This wasn’t the only time where she was sent that exact same picture, her mother who she hasn’t spoken to in years also sent her that very same picture and it turns out it really was Salloway. After getting sent that picture for a second time within a couple she began to recall the day that photo…show more content… It’s crazy how we live in a society that’s quick to judge people based mainly on their physical appearance, but it’s the world we live in. The truth of the matter is that we cannot stop someone from making judgmental comments about a person because it’s in our nature as Americans to judge a person once they are approached by them. The reality of it is that if a person doesn’t like you based on your physical appearance they wouldn’t even bother to try to get to know you. It’s up to us as human beings who knows how the world works to not let what people say change the way you feel about oneself especially if it’s on the internet. In the article Salloway recalls the torment that she had to deal with growing up saying “…that when the kids at lunch poked my stomach with pencils to see if I’d deflate, I honestly wished I would, with a long, satisfying “sssssss.” Honestly, who cares what people think as long as you know who you are a person it shouldn’t matter what others think of you. Opinions and comments doesn’t make you who you are your personality and how you carry yourself makes you who you are. Its mind bottling when I see people changing who they are because of a few unappealing comments made by others on the internet. Think about it, do those people that write hurtful comments about you buy your clothes, pay your bills, put food on your table, do they personally know you? If you’re
