Oh God, that's horrible Mollie, were they people you know from real life?

They were online friends, I had known them for years though and they were always good to me prior to that. This was just completely out of the blue :/

That's terrible :( That's the thing Mollie: we give people our trust and this is how they repay that trust. It's worse when it's someone as you say, that you regarded as a best friend. You're better off without people like that around you.

That's horrible, that's why I worry about my daughter and younger people on the net. I'd say she'll be atleast 16 before I let her go on un supervised. It's scary all these kind of bullying stories you here, young teenagers even killing themselves over that kind of thing.

Jeeze Mollie that's awful :(

God, there are some scumbags in the world, aren't there?

That is terrible.

This is why the internet as a whole could do with rules and laws set in place. If something like that had happened in the material world there would have been criminal charges made.

The part that many /some people seem to miss in all of this is: online socialising has taken over what used to happen in days gone by: whereby people used to meet up in person, know each other in person and in real life.

A great deal of friendships arise from online conversations and online interraction regardless of age - but looking at it from 'youngsters' point of view in particular: they are very impressionable, they want to fit in and all it takes is that one bully to start rounding up their possy...... much going on elsewhere in the background - people being set up when they think these people are their friends - and before you know it: all sorts of thiings are posted online and then spread like wildfire - with much of it not being taken down, and remaining online for many years later.

Yes, it could be argued that 'similar' may happen in real life - people do get let down in real life - but it is far easier to bully, intimiate, harrass, badger and cause distress online, to a far wider audience with far less control over the end result.

Absolutely, and it's becoming a serious problem too. I think it needs to be looked at and policed more tbh because people seem to think anything they do is fine because "It's not real life" when in fact it is very much real life, there are real people sitting behind all of those screens

You speak for yourself. I'm a hologram with upgraded facilities.!!


Kidding aside: that is the issue though. It is real live people, with real live emotions and feelings - and as I mentioned: you just have to use Tibb as an example of how many young people (and older it must be said) - sit at night, alone in their rooms, parents downstairs, spending hours online, in chat rooms, FB, forums etc: whereas when I was a kid/teen and older -- either my parents wanted me out of the house 'get some fresh air rather than being stuck in the house'....... we used to go to community centres, hang around the swing parks, go up the park, and be together.

these days:it doesn't happen daily like that - a heck of a lot is thumping on keyboards, webcams, chat rooms, skype etc. Much body language is lost which is (70% iirc) of communication is lost. signals that would have been picked up on previously by body lanuage, by tone of voice - are now lost. Signals that are highly important.

by the very nature of this type of medium - it is very easy to be abused (ie: the comm method as well as 'a person/s'.)

No you are to smart

And Not Twisted.


Feel The Force.

"I'm a hologram with upgraded facilities.!!"



Yes Skpe Holograms
soon you can dance Naked over someone

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Yes :( All because I met someone famous that she liked, and this girl would send me hateful messages and threaten to hurt me and tried to turn all my friends against me. It went on for about 2 years.

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I'm not so sure I'd want to inflict that on even my worst enemy Arista!!!

Didn't you report it to the police? Bitching is one thing but when it comes to all out threats it turns in to something else altogether.