Cyber Bullying? You don't even know the meaning....
 

Nothing tonight can be classed as bullying, Cyber Bullying is a lot nastier and more persistant then what's gone on tonight. I don't think it's even possible to bully someone unless you have a link to them in real life otherwise WHY would you be intimidated? you could just block them and move on but if it's persistant abuse from someone you know personally then it's a lot harder to get away from and more intimidating. Cyber Bullying is a continuation of real life bullying, since none of us know each other personally on this website then I doubt anyone REALLY feels bullied since the RL connection isn't there to cause intimidation.

with you there dezzy

I concur.

I agree, its not as if we picked out one thing and attacked her for it, she made a thread telling the whole forum what not to do.....

Closed.

Dezzy get off your soap box, which you are constantly

*pushes dean in the dirt*

Stating facts is not bullying.

This is going nowhere.

Deleted.

But people do know each other personally with some people posting pictures, their real name.. etc..

That is only one aspect of cyber bullying.

But we will never see each other face to face, even with all the personal information given out it's easily a case of blocking the perpetrators. Cyber bullying ussually occurs when they Bully from real life attacks them over the internet.

Agree

If it upsets someone and makes them feel uncomfortable, and a group of people continue doing it knowing that - it is bullying!

Dezzy thinks he knows everything about everything when in actual fact he knows **** all about almost everything

Deary me.

What the hell are you even on about?

The point is WHY would you feel intimidated? It's extremely easy to prevent people from talking to you online if you don't want them to. Why would you feel intimidated, scared uncomfortable ETC when you can just easily black them? It's a basic fact that Cyber Bullying basically always continues on from RL bullying.

the truth

im just fed up with how he talks at people

Dezzy talks a lot of sense.

he really doesnt

he talks about things he knows **** all about tbh

I am sure reading through the replies with the majority agreeing will make you feel very good Dezzy!

I have been cyber bullied a few times by somebody I know [hes in my form], darn't say anything to my face and Im not one to kick up a fuss over it because I knew other people would get involved and quite frankly Id feel more awful because he is 'popular'. Like MMI did, I stood up for myself via the internet, he got people involved on there instead whom I didnt know, were they not cyber bullying because I didnt know them? Dont be daft! Sure I shoulda given the pr*ck a good punch but a) its not really me and I know what the consequences would be, everybody getting involved and all and b) wouldnt start the matter face to face because teachers' are gawd dam stupid tbh and would blame me.

Similar thing happened tonight, sure she may not no anybody so it wouldnt carry on in real life but would it anyway? The dude who did it with me never brought it up.

Dezzy talks as if he knows everything.
like some other members i could point out, but will choose not to. :hugesmile:

I think it is easy to say that it is the internet, you can switch off, so how can that be bullying - but it isn't as simple as that!

I consider myself a pretty strong person - but when I was new on here - I had several encounters with groups of people having a dig at me - and I know that, at times, that made me feel uncomfortable - and I know it has made other members feel like that - so for a pretty sensitive 13 year old girl - I can see how she might have found that upsetting! Maybe those who can't understand that - haven't been in that situation!

Tonight was not Cyber Bullying yes, however it does go on and things people say ON HERE can make you feel bad.

exactly

just look at the real world threads

BECAUSE PEOPLE SHOULDNT HAVE TO.

Why the **** should you be forced to turn the internet off because some idiots BULLIED YOU into doing that?

Seriously man.

I'm sorry to hear about that but that corroborates with my main point that cyber bullying has a link to RL bullying. Sure he didn't bother you in RL but because you knew him it made it a whole lot worse then if you didn't. I'm not saying that Cyber Bullying doesn't exist I'm just saying that it's rare from complete strangers with no links. There's ussually always a RL link somewhere.

That is basically what I am saying Patrick - read my post properly!

Sorry Wombai.
x

As for ILoveDC, I'm not gonna rise to you, if you want to argue with me then go for the points I make since personal attacks will only make you a hypocrite considering the subject at hand.

That's ok Patrick! :thumbs:

How can you not say it was cyber bullying?

More than 5 Members ganged up on 1 member and ridiculed and poked fun at them.

Throughout school, i was told that when a series of people gang up on someone and make them feel inferior and ridicule them, then this is classed as bullying.

Bullying is not only physical, its mental as well. So just because you havent "punched" or "kicked" does not mean anything because you have mentally attacked in a group. Which is one of the worst forms of bullying.

you dont have to rise ive already lowered to your level

You've missed my point entirely..... you know what I'm repeating myself here. Random 'abuse' off the internet from people you have NO LINKS to is not going to affect you, if it was anywhere else you'd just delete and block them and be doen with it. The fact that she made such a big deal out of it proves that it wasn't bullying. People who feel bullied don't stick up for themselves.

In this case she was just loving the attention.

There was a long period of time when I felt like I was being victimised on here; but never bullied. And that in itself was only because I had to put up with a group of members who were all friends actively disliking me and picking arguments with me. MeMyselfAndI having her avatar copied by a few people for half an hour, for a laugh, doesn't even compare to that. That's all I have to say on the matter.

Such a glorious sight, If anyone REALLY does feel intimidated or gets abuse from any members then just put them on ignore.

whats that you say :conf:

I'm sorry - but I have to disagree with you on this big time! I would love to get the opinion of an expert in human behaviour - as I would bet big money that they would dispute that! People who feel bullied can and do stick up for themselves!