In time, bullies don’t really become anything but another person living in Nebraska. In serious cases like Tyler Clementi’s, the victims may never get over the fact that their secret was released into the world of social media. They just decide to kill themselves fearing that they cannot do anything about the whole situation caused by the bully.

For those of you who do not know, this was all started on Facebook® when Tyler Clementi meets a friend named M.B. They meet at Clementi’s dorm room at Rutgers University. Clementi’s roommate, Dharun Ravi, and an accomplice who was not guilty via a plea deal videotaped Clementi and M.B. having “private time”. Ravi then posted the five-second video on Twitter®, viewed by his Twitter followers. A couple days later, Clementi sent this tweet, “Jumping off GW Bridge. Sorry.” His body was found three days later. Ravi was later arrested and found guilty of all fifteen counts of bias intimidation as well as invasion of privacy.

The question remains, why would anybody do such a stupid thing? In an interview with ABC®’s Chris Cuomo on the show 20/20™, Ravi almost laughed when talking about if he meant to do anything to harm Tyler Clementi. In my opinion, all you are ever doing when smiling and laughing when reacting to this line of questioning is a pure act of stupidity. Pure, fresh stupidity from Stupidity Lake. Yet when he was talking to Cuomo he maintained his innocence like he was a “goody two shoes” or something. I commend Chris Cuomo for throwing out these tough questions to Ravi for people to see how senseless this guy really is. If you do not see how this guy has a cold heart, go down to the eyeglasses store, buy some glasses, and read this article again.

The thing is, how are actions like these ignorable? The day before he killed himself, Tyler Clementi went to the director of room placement at Rutgers and said that he wanted another roommate different from Ravi. Being a victim of bullying myself, I can understand the loneliness and frustration Tyler must have felt. They showed his private moment on Twitter®, nearly to the whole world before it was deleted. He had every reason to believe that it was shown to the whole world. There is an expression saying, “What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas”. The same is true for social media. I’ll say this, if you give someone a car, you teach him or her how to drive it. If you give someone a computer, you just get up and leave. That needs to change right about now, not tomorrow.