Josh Gunderson

            On Tuesday of this week, Josh Gunderson came and spoke to us about social networking and also things like sexting, and how you can avoid them. What he said was very interesting. He made it so there was a lot of humor because he is a comedian, but also got us to listen about the topic. He was telling us about how he has experienced with cyber bullying and what we can do to stay away from it. Everything he said was helpful to know me and I also think everyone in the freshman class. He gave us many examples of kids just like us that have got bullied and killed their selves. This really made me think about the topic because kids just like me are getting bullied to the point where they feel they should commit suicide. The stuff that some of the bullies do is just horrible, such as bully people over who they date, or how they dress, stuff that doesn’t even concern them. These bullies are essentially the ones that are killing these normal human beings who were just trying to enjoy life and be themselves.

          What Josh talked about is goes with what we are reading in are book Twisted. Twisted is about a boy named Tyler who is having trouble with a lot of things. His problems are at home and school. At home his father isn’t very happy with anything that he does. He goes to his community service, goes home plays on the computer until three a.m. then goes to sleep and wakes up at five and starts over. In the first part of the book they go to Tyler’s dad’s bosses how for a business party and causes and accident at the party and Tyler’s family are very unhappy with him. At school Tyler has been bullied since fifth grade. It’s fair to say Tyler doesn’t really enjoy life right now. Just like what Josh talked about how bullying someone can ruin their life. That’s why I enjoyed his presentation because we are reading a book that is basically everything he talked about.

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http://www.joshgunderson.com/index.html