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Tasdik wrote:Cyberbullying makes me laugh.

MrTwilliger wrote:

Tasdik wrote:Cyberbullying makes me laugh.

Cyber bullying is actually a pretty serious issue. Sure, you can go on about people like Boxxy and the "dun goofed" incident and make a complete joke about it. But being someone who has experienced cyber bullying, that I didn't bring upon myself like those above cases, I can tel lyou it's nothing to laugh at.

I use to get bullied at school, a lot. I won't elaborate on the fine details, but I was an easy target. I got called any insult imaginable, I got regular beatings (though nothing too severe, mainly pushing and punches to the arm/being tripped over). The thing about cyber bullying is, it's a continuation of the abuse you face at school.

The internet was an escape for me. After being picked on all day, I could escape into my own little world and leave my troubles behind me. I really, really enjoyed this. It was my own little world that no one else was apart of. But within time, the bullies tracked me down. They found my space, got a hold of my email address and the abusive spam flooded in. No matter where I went, no matter how I tried to escape, the bullying followed me. It's a sense of helplessness, like you won't ever escape for the people who want to make your life hell. Every waking moment, someone is there, tormenting you. You can't run, you can't hide, you just have to take it for what it is.

That is what makes cyber bullying such a depressing thing. Maybe you think it's all some big joke, summed up by pathetic fucking memes, but it's something that ruins your life. Seriously.

Melez wrote:

MrTwilliger wrote:

Tasdik wrote:Cyberbullying makes me laugh.

Cyber bullying is actually a pretty serious issue. Sure, you can go on about people like Boxxy and the "dun goofed" incident and make a complete joke about it. But being someone who has experienced cyber bullying, that I didn't bring upon myself like those above cases, I can tel lyou it's nothing to laugh at.

I use to get bullied at school, a lot. I won't elaborate on the fine details, but I was an easy target. I got called any insult imaginable, I got regular beatings (though nothing too severe, mainly pushing and punches to the arm/being tripped over). The thing about cyber bullying is, it's a continuation of the abuse you face at school.

The internet was an escape for me. After being picked on all day, I could escape into my own little world and leave my troubles behind me. I really, really enjoyed this. It was my own little world that no one else was apart of. But within time, the bullies tracked me down. They found my space, got a hold of my email address and the abusive spam flooded in. No matter where I went, no matter how I tried to escape, the bullying followed me. It's a sense of helplessness, like you won't ever escape for the people who want to make your life hell. Every waking moment, someone is there, tormenting you. You can't run, you can't hide, you just have to take it for what it is.

That is what makes cyber bullying such a depressing thing. Maybe you think it's all some big joke, summed up by pathetic fucking memes, but it's something that ruins your life. Seriously.

aren't you being a little dramatic?

CeLL wrote:cyberbullying isnt serious.

dont forget to put on that paper "click the 'x' in the upper right corner of the program being used to communicate said bullying and move on with life."

inky wrote:It's only funny until someone decides to take daddy's .45 for a little test run at the mall. Then again, victims of bullying ("cyber" or not) are also at fault since they don't know how to stand up for themselves. One good fucking brawl is all you need; unless you live in NY, which in most cases, you would have to worry about getting stabbed after school.

MrTwilliger wrote:

CeLL wrote:cyberbullying isnt serious.

dont forget to put on that paper "click the 'x' in the upper right corner of the program being used to communicate said bullying and move on with life."

It's not that simple though. The thing with cyber bullying is that it's an extension of the real life bullying. Take someone life boxy. Do you really think she could simply "click the x" and it all goes away? No, because the real life bullying (mail threats, stalking threats etc) are still present. The internet is meant an as escape, but soon it becomes the problem. You can close the site your being harassed on and never visit it again (social networking, for example), but these sites that you enjoy visiting to are the relief. Their message may be nullified a little, but you also cut out the activities you enjoy by doing so. Either way, they still win.

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MrTwilliger wrote:I'll restate what I said earlier. "The thing with cyber bullying is that it's an extension of the real life bullying". Par the Boxxy scenario, all of my own experience I have shared have been a initial case of bullying (real life, if it's not obvious yet) which has then gained another level by crossing into the cyber world. Perhaps Boxxy was a bad example, drawing you down onto that path. But for a giant tl;dr of my rants just refer to the quoted sentence.