Remy LeBeau
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Why can't people make their profiles private? or delete people that are "bullying" them?
How Do You Guys Feel About Bullying? Discuss
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first part i dont agree with his choice of words but the message is true. not trying to be an **** but why would someone deliberately choose to get bullied on line. you can block people, ignore them, turn of your cpu. the internet is almost like a paradox. its real but its really not if you catch my drift.I wish 4Chan would ruin this dude.
i completely agree with you.But I don't understand why they can't just not log onnobody told you you HAD to make a fb profile or an ig. When you subject yourself to that arena u gotta understand that you're subject to any and everything by any and everyone. And it's fair game because nobody forced you to go online. these kids gotta understand that comes with the territory of being online in that way. You can get everything u need done and stay completely anonymous. Like these stories of kids getting bullied all day at school then go home and have to deal with it online so they can't take it..it's really just pathetic IMO there's certain things that can be easily avoided instead these kids are offing themselves? Its unbelievable. It's just the day and age we live in I guess people living vicariously online so much that they think the internet is reality. And it may be for them but that doesn't make it real in the scope of REALITY
why are we even talking about internet bullying on NT...people get flamed left and right...nt is like the epitome this so called internet bullying
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Well because it's not what you do, it's what others do and see
Let's say someone makes a fake account using your identity and says all sorts or racist things, comes out of the closet, breaks up with your GF, or something of the sort? Sure you can not log on but others do. It can easily ruin someone reputation no matter if you take it seriously or not.
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Getting bullied on the internet isn't just getting flamed and being done with it. You got dudes who will find your address, threaten you/your family, send stuff to your family/work, etc. Y'all are thinking of small little s*** that can easily be prevented by making your profile private, but how can you come back from having your personal business sent to your family or boss? Or people harassing you at your house? Maybe people should be more cautious about what information they have online, but this is the age of the internet where 10 year olds are more connected than their parents, doesn't mean it's right to expose them and try to bring down their life.
Also, Tyler is an idiot. It's not just those comments that make me dislike him.
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I feel like some people see the term "cyber bullying" and assume it's just a forum like making fun of one person. If everyone here was making fun of me, I could log off the site and be done with it. In other scenarios, it's not really avoidable.
The typical example now is people using Facebook, Instagram, etc. to attack/outcast people. Obviously you can log off FB but if all your friends or your entire school is seeing the attacks, you can't really avoid that. You could delete the person but the damage is still being done. This is the "online" version of HS-type bullying. Instead of rumors being spread through gossip, it's done online.
Even on forums like this, it gets taken really far. I'm talking emails/IP/info traced to the point where they know where you live, where you work, your family members, etc. They use that info to threaten you. They post stuff online associated with your name that could kill a background check or hurt you in the future.
Then there's people that use the info above for stalking/physical threats. People that use pictures and pretend to be you online.
Now this stuff doesn't happen to me but depending on how you interact online, some of this stuff is unavoidable. And it's very real.
Related but unrelated - I feel like the people that say things like 'kids are too babied nowadays, bullying made me stronger' or 'why is everything so PC, if you can't handle name calling - you won't survive in this world' etc. etc. In my experience, people that say that stuff are often really messed up and either say those things because they don't know it or don't want to admit that bullying did have a negative effect on them growing up.
The typical example now is people using Facebook, Instagram, etc. to attack/outcast people. Obviously you can log off FB but if all your friends or your entire school is seeing the attacks, you can't really avoid that. You could delete the person but the damage is still being done. This is the "online" version of HS-type bullying. Instead of rumors being spread through gossip, it's done online.
Even on forums like this, it gets taken really far. I'm talking emails/IP/info traced to the point where they know where you live, where you work, your family members, etc. They use that info to threaten you. They post stuff online associated with your name that could kill a background check or hurt you in the future.
Then there's people that use the info above for stalking/physical threats. People that use pictures and pretend to be you online.
Now this stuff doesn't happen to me but depending on how you interact online, some of this stuff is unavoidable. And it's very real.
Related but unrelated - I feel like the people that say things like 'kids are too babied nowadays, bullying made me stronger' or 'why is everything so PC, if you can't handle name calling - you won't survive in this world' etc. etc. In my experience, people that say that stuff are often really messed up and either say those things because they don't know it or don't want to admit that bullying did have a negative effect on them growing up.
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While I understand what you are saying; this is where the disconnect lies between generations. What separates this new generation is they are children of the information age and they know nothing but what it has evolved into. I was already graduated from HS when the Internet started becoming more common in households. My preference of communication is not texting or leaving comments on walls or photos, but talking face to face or on the phone. This "Internet is not real" talk is absolutely false. It's not real in the minds of people who started using it at an older age and remembered how communication used to be. It is reality for this current generation and going forward.But I don't understand why they can't just not log onnobody told you you HAD to make a fb profile or an ig. When you subject yourself to that arena u gotta understand that you're subject to any and everything by any and everyone. And it's fair game because nobody forced you to go online. these kids gotta understand that comes with the territory of being online in that way. You can get everything u need done and stay completely anonymous. Like these stories of kids getting bullied all day at school then go home and have to deal with it online so they can't take it..it's really just pathetic IMO there's certain things that can be easily avoided instead these kids are offing themselves? Its unbelievable. It's just the day and age we live in I guess people living vicariously online so much that they think the internet is reality. And it may be for them but that doesn't make it real in the scope of REALITY
How do you raise a child or give advice on a subject you yourself have never had to deal with? It's easy for you or I to say just ignore it when we aren't dependent on it like the youth of today are. I am in no mean justifying it, but rather giving you a different perspective on how to look at it.
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Technically, didn't KSteezy cyber-bully NinjaHood to an extent?
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I couldn't imagine being one of these kids that gets picked on in school then goes online to see more terrible things said about them, I do feel bad for those kids who just also get the crap beaten out of them because they are different or stay to themselves.
Kids can be really cruel and evil.
There's mad cry babies on here tho..
Grown men that can't take harmless jokes, you can tell which dudes never had friends or don't get any female attention
Kids can be really cruel and evil.
There's mad cry babies on here tho..
Grown men that can't take harmless jokes, you can tell which dudes never had friends or don't get any female attention
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good point sir. I can't speak on that generational disconnect due to my age, (23) but I fully understand what you are trying to say.
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I too have yet to fully understand why internet bullying is so powerful. The internet was just becoming popular when I was growing up. Our online profiles were asian avenue and xanga lol. People would say mean things out of spite and people would just brush it off. Does social media rule the lives of people these days? I have a facebook but I don't take it seriously.
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Disagree! I think that people that live their lives online have a very skewed perception of what is "important".
An individual that assigns such a high value to online activity popular opinion would certainly benefit from strengthening their own core values and personal perspective on life.
When I was growing up in a small community people kept telling me about what it was like "down the hill" in the real world. It took me a while to find out for myself what they were trying to tell me...
The world is bigger than the little corner you're paying attention to at any given moment.
Any time I encounter bullying, I fell bad for the bully. But I look for ways to show the person being bullied that there is another way.
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See...that's where we differ, the world is bigger, but our personal worlds have always been the same size. The Internet gives the illusion that the works is bigger, we just have more screen names to tell us were right. We all craft our own version of the Internet, our own friends on fb, our own followers on ig. We generally follow those we agree with and disregard those whom we don't. It's a strange phenomenon of existence. Most spend their life trying to find objective truth, others realize the truth is very subjective...the Internet furthers the latters delusion, the fiction where we are the center of the universe, and if we don't get a 'like' the universe hates us, we get enough likes the universe loves us...that is the world of 2014. I don't have social media.
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lol nice video. Makes it so much clearer now
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But there's a higher concentration of soft kids in NY.
Depending on their age let them carry?
Anything under 18 they gotta know how to throw hands.
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bullying is the act of a insecure coward..period. I have to raise daughters in this mess..so being strong mentally > physicaly. That goes for a little boy or girl.
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I feel that since there are human social hierarchies, bullying will always exist because some people like to think of themselves as better than others so they say ****. Or, they feel inferior in the social ladder so they might say something in attempt to put the target beneath them. Insecurities are another reason bullying exists so people who are not confident in their assets will belittle those who have what they want. I also feel that although it is normal, explainable, we should still try to stop it because it can be harmful. I know it hurt my self esteem quite some as a child
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Gonna become so bad within each generation that comes and goes...
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You cannot do everything for your kids, your kids will one day need to defend their own families. Teach them stand up for themselves. Hit that bully with one good one and it will stop. No one wants to get stuck, even a bully. Why would he bully the guy who might stick him in the jaw when he can easily bully the dude who will just take it?
Remy LeBeau
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Sounds easy enough.......... Until the bully pulls out a gun to fight back
The world is cruel. There is no right way to do anything.
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Only the strong survive
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