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Is Cyberbullying real?

Is Cyberbullying Really That Serious of a Thing?

  • Yes

    Votes: 31 83.8%

  • No

    Votes: 5 13.5%

  • Other

    Votes: 1 2.7%
  • Total voters
    37
JohnWOlin said:
So then you think that like every other dude on this forum is a bully then?
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Weirdly enough none have told me to kill myself as of yet so no .
 
Superfly said:
Are you saying that you think that people who have mental illness should be sent to prison?? Seriously? Way to blame the victim here.

And you didn't qualify what level of mental illness should require incarceration. Should someone with ADHD be sent to prison because they forgot to take their pills? Anxiety? Alzheimers? At what level do you think people should be incarcerated over a mental illness?
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First off don't kill the messenger. You and I both know that many mentally ill in America do end up in prisons some way or another. It just is a reality. So my suggestion isn't far off from what actually occurs out in the real world.



It's no surprise if a mentally unstable person calls their 911 office 10 times a month over cyber bullying that yeah, they'll end up in prison. (And they do).
 
Cyber bullying is very real if you let it. My daughters don't have face book or use any social media outside school or the library but I have tons of students that interrupt their classwork, etc because somebody just posted something on face book. I look at them like who cares but it really upsets them because they have made it their life. There are fights and threats all the time over cyber bullying. Parents get called in as do the police from time to time. It is easy, but naive, to just say let it go but if it is your life, because you kinda have no life, then it is very real.
 
JohnWOlin said:
So apparently a trans-gender game modder killer him/herself by jumping off a bridge due to people urging him/her to do so thinking that it was all a big ploy to get more attention to their mods. I honestly rolled my eyes at it. It's always bad when someone dies, commits suicide but c'mon. Really? I think my crude sentiment can be best summed up by Tyler the Creator's Tweet:



Sure that is really crude but the guy is straight to the point. It's ridiculous. Your weapon against it is the on/off switch on the back of the computer. The sleep/wake button on top of the iPhone. So not really a political thing, just think it's one of those made up white people problems we have nowadays that end up becoming a thing bigger than it really needs to be. So thoughts?
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All one has to do is go down to the DP's special place to know that cyber bullying is real...
 
Ryan5 said:
Are they really doing these shootings, these bridge jumps because of cyber bullying or because they always had a mental health issue and simply blamed "The internet" for their mental health issue?
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Good point. Most of the students that get upset are the more low socio-economic kids that don't do as well in school and seem much more emotionally messed up, talking of fighting, bullying, drinking, etc.
 
Ryan5 said:
First off don't kill the messenger. You and I both know that many mentally ill in America do end up in prisons some way or another. It just is a reality. So my suggestion isn't far off from what actually occurs out in the real world.



It's no surprise if a mentally unstable person calls their 911 office 10 times a month over cyber bullying that yeah, they'll end up in prison. (And they do).
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What the blue hell are you talking about? Most of the kids who commit suicide don't tell ANYBODY about the bullying. THAT is the problem. Where are you coming up with your statistics?
 
Luftwaffe said:
Well what kind of dumbass takes nude pictures? :lamo that made me rofl hard.
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What kind of dumbass moves to an earthquake zone? What kind of dumbass lives in a flood zone? What kind of a dumbass would put their financial info on Amazon or Paypal which can be hacked? What kind of dumbass gets an account with a major bank that charges exploitative fees? What kind of dumbass would etc. etc. etc.

There's the expectation that humans won't be utterly horrible, and there's victim blaming, which I think can easily be said you are doing.
 
JohnWOlin said:
Sure that is really crude but the guy is straight to the point. It's ridiculous. Your weapon against it is the on/off switch on the back of the computer.
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This is like saying your weapon against bullying in school is just to go to another school. For better or worse, the internet is a part of life these days, and you shouldn't be expected to avoid it because someone else is being an asshole.

Cyber bullying is definitely a real issue. In some ways it's not as serious as in-person bullying. With cyber-bullying, there's no possibility of physical violence since you can't punch someone through a computer screen (much as we'd all like to from time to time). On the other hand, people feel free to be much bigger assholes online than they do in person generally, and it's harder to stop cyber bullying than it is in-person bullying.

Mostly, the way to combat it is for parents to support their kids and teach them to be a little thicker-skinned.
 
Cardinal said:
What kind of dumbass moves to an earthquake zone? What kind of dumbass lives in a flood zone? What kind of a dumbass would put their financial info on Amazon or Paypal which can be hacked? What kind of dumbass gets an account with a major bank that charges exploitative fees? What kind of dumbass would etc. etc. etc.

There's the expectation that humans won't be utterly horrible, and there's victim blaming, which I think can easily be said you are doing.
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Perhaps there are resources in said earthquake zone?

Perhaps the costs are extremely cheap in the flood zones despite mandatory flood insurance?

But do tell, what benefits come from nude pictures?

You call it victim blaming, I call it lack of judgement from the "victim."
 
Luftwaffe said:
Perhaps there are resources in said earthquake zone?

Perhaps the costs are extremely cheap in the flood zones despite mandatory flood insurance?

But do tell, what benefits come from nude pictures?

You call it victim blaming, I call it lack of judgement from the "victim."
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Read the article.
 
molten_dragon said:
This is like saying your weapon against bullying in school is just to go to another school. For better or worse, the internet is a part of life these days, and you shouldn't be expected to avoid it because someone else is being an asshole.

Cyber bullying is definitely a real issue. In some ways it's not as serious as in-person bullying. With cyber-bullying, there's no possibility of physical violence since you can't punch someone through a computer screen (much as we'd all like to from time to time). On the other hand, people feel free to be much bigger assholes online than they do in person generally, and it's harder to stop cyber bullying than it is in-person bullying.

Mostly, the way to combat it is for parents to support their kids and teach them to be a little thicker-skinned.
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It is total BS...'just go somewhere else.' Like a teen has that kind of control over his life or his parents can just afford it.

A couple of days ago, a 16 yr old boy brought a gun to school, ready to kill, and a teacher (coach?) tackled him after he shot it off once. It was because he was being bullied. I dont know if it was cyber-bullying or in person but my guess is both.

Bullying kills others besides those being bullied. The guy with Aspergers that killed all those kids in Newtown was bullied. I think the Littleton teens were too and so have many of those school shooters.

You point out and stop the bullies....they are the ones in the wrong and you should make THEIR parents deal with them and after that point, even hold them accountable. How can responsible parents ignore such behavior in their kids? I would think they'd want to know and to correct their kids, so they'll grow up to be better people.
 
spud_meister said:
And you think it's easy for people who use the internet as their primary way of socialising, being entertained, and gathering information can just switch it off?
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That's like having sympathy for a drug addict or alcoholic isn't it?
 
molten_dragon said:
This is like saying your weapon against bullying in school is just to go to another school. For better or worse, the internet is a part of life these days, and you shouldn't be expected to avoid it because someone else is being an asshole.

Cyber bullying is definitely a real issue. In some ways it's not as serious as in-person bullying. With cyber-bullying, there's no possibility of physical violence since you can't punch someone through a computer screen (much as we'd all like to from time to time). On the other hand, people feel free to be much bigger assholes online than they do in person generally, and it's harder to stop cyber bullying than it is in-person bullying.

Mostly, the way to combat it is for parents to support their kids and teach them to be a little thicker-skinned.
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I can get behind that, at least the last part. Parents often are well horrible now. They don't know how to teach their kids anything or how to interact. I've been pretty good at it with my 4 year old...most parents think she is 6 simply because of the way she acts, her manners, how she interacts with other kids, etc. If a kid rejects her I let her know it's their loss and she needs to find better friends that like what she likes. Of course her best friend is me though at this point! :)
 
NoC_T said:
That may constitute an infraction, here? I'm not sure.
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Indeed, my point was that no one here would be considered bullies unlike the people who had bullied the person who had taken their own life due to constant harassment and people telling the individual to commit suicide.
 
Un biased said:
Indeed, my point was that no one here would be considered bullies unlike the people who had bullied the person who had taken their own life due to constant harassment and people telling the individual to commit suicide.
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There are those here whose scruples are defined solely by what they're permitted to indulge in. Believe that.
 
spud_meister said:
No, it's not.
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Explain how it isn't, because if say for example, you are getting hit up on facebook and you let it keep going you are a glutton for punishment. Same goes for Twitter, most forums, YouTube, Wordpress, Tumblr, gmail, Yahoo, Snapchat, Tinder, etc. You can turn them off online. In real life? No of course not. But just as the internet intensifies a person's interactions with people to the extreme, they can in nearly all cases be just as easily shut out.
 
JohnWOlin said:
Let me explain the white people problems thing. Really, it's more of average middle class american problems. You don't see crap like this happening all over the world, just mostly in western society, and much of western societies characteristics originated from USA in the first place. So I hope that clears it up some.
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I have to agree with this.

In most parts of the world the problem of hurt feelings is way down on the list to what is really happening in their lives.

Unfortunately most American kids don't know anything about that kind of stuff.
 
DA60 said:
Anyone who says there is no such thing as cyberbullying is probably a cyberbully themselves.
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Or maybe they are the strong people that can't understand how words on a screen can have any effect at all in a persons life. They are meaningless.
 
Bodhisattva said:
Cyber bullying is very real if you let it. My daughters don't have face book or use any social media outside school or the library but I have tons of students that interrupt their classwork, etc because somebody just posted something on face book. I look at them like who cares but it really upsets them because they have made it their life. There are fights and threats all the time over cyber bullying. Parents get called in as do the police from time to time. It is easy, but naive, to just say let it go but if it is your life, because you kinda have no life, then it is very real.
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That is because we are raising a pathetic generation. I am worried about the outcome of these weak kids that are so intent on what other people say.
 
Absolutely. When you see what kids go through with this online harassment and absolutely vile behavior, it should make anyone's stomach churn.
 
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