i don't get how you can bully someone on a forum.

But why don't you and other people getting on at MMi take a chill pill too? and just let everything be.

Cyber bullying.

same as you can in "real life" I suppose, you can make someone feel uncomfortable and afraid to say anything without it being ridiculed

i still don't get it tbh. and if someone feels like someone is being mean there's always that little cross in a red box in the top right corner.

I used to have trouble off somebody over the internet on bebo, there is such thing.

No, it's the way every other forum I have ever been on - and I have been on a lot - also sees it. I can honestly say in ten years of using the internet this is the only forum I have ever, ever come across where storylines play out like a fucking soap opera. People take the place way, way too seriously. The problem has existed for years. People take everything to heart, see themselves as being in wars with certain groups, and even see certain people on the forum as honest-to-god best friends.

To bully someone is to emotionally harass them to the point where it compromises their life. I don't think that can happen on a forum. I don't think anyone is capable of seriously distrupting someones life over a forum, nor do I think anyone is stupid enough to actually take comments seriously enough to let those comments emotionally distrupt their life. Call me crazy but I do not think that can happen on a forum. Shoot me.

but it's some words on a screen, how can that make people afraid and uncomfortable. it's not like someone can punch you through the screen.

I am chilled. Just because I don't like her music opinions should not suggest that I am in fact raging at the screen. I hate that assumption.

Cyber Bullying does excist, its not as simple to just X out of it.

The things people say can still stay with you and make you feel bad just like in real life.

Its like on here, when people on here call me stupid, say I need to spell, tell me I have anger issues etc

That sticks with me and I dont forget it even if I do axe out of the page.

Well the soap opera starts when people like you start nit picking at people you think are annoying. In reality though MMi is harmless and people getting on at her need to shut the fuck up.

It depends how you view things then I suppose. This is the first forum I've joined, maybe I'm not experienced enough in ways of the forums then but the way I look at it is, I just act the way I do in real life and treat other people the way I normally do cos I don't know how to act any other way really. It's not that I'm acting overly serious, I'm just being myself and acting the way I would in the "real world"

i try not to go on Msn anymore because of patrick adding me to convosations

but you should remember that it's a forum, and these people don't even know you, so why take it to heart.

if anyone says anything to me on here i don't give a **** tbh.

how do you know that?

I agree Patrick. It may not be as bad as people saying things in real life but it can effect people and make them feel bad about themselves.

Are you not nit picking right now because MM&I is one of your choosen few you feel the need to defend constantly?

I'm not changing my opinion for anybody. The forum would be a very, very boring place if everyone agreed on everything. Everyone is not going to get along, and if someone makes a comment [in this case about music] I feel is wrong, I will go against it.

Can you drill that into your head? It's not fucking rainbow city.

When did ANYBODY ever say she was not harmless? Of course she is harmless for christ sake. Another example of people taking the place too seriously :rolleyes:.

This:P

It is just the way I see things. She has not done anything to harm anyone!

you do too.

Everyones comments cancel themselves out tbh

Exactly. Which is why this whole mess has developed into a needless self parody. Get on with your lives and start posting about stuff without caring for all this bullying/cliques/blahblah crap.

Yes it is a forum. People can have disagreements over anything. However civilised human beings would learn to agree to disagree. I am not sure if you are one of them but there is no need to jump on MMi and call her a ****** and that or telling her that she needs to change. This is when the forum is going too far. It is a forum to discuss about things, not to attack members who type differently to others. It is irrelevant.

And did it not cross your mind to simply block or delete him? You could keep using MSN that way, you know.

[Are my allowed to say that, guys? Considering every comment has to pass through a fucking advisory board.]

Congratulations on single handedly destroying your entire argument.

Looks like thebeast is not immune from wanting to insult people who disagree with them either. Whodathunkit?