Anti Cyber Bullying!

[JackBuddy]

At least they're trying something!

[FrozenWhisper]

Tbh, people have TRIED too bully me on habbo, doesn't work thoyugh. Even in r/l I just don't give a damn. I mean, someone followed me round habbo calling me a "man" when I was non HC cause I was wearing boyish clothes. It's like, WOW YOURRR INSULTING MY PIXELZZZ!!11!!1ONEONESPACEBAR4543!!2
:rolleyes:

[Y!]

People who try to bully you online probably get bullied at school lol

And sometimes some comments about people's family might affect them if they are going through a certain thing in their life like their mum or dad dying or having cancer or something...

[Barmi]

Tbh, people have TRIED too bully me on habbo, doesn't work thoyugh. Even in r/l I just don't give a damn. I mean, someone followed me round habbo calling me a "man" when I was non HC cause I was wearing boyish clothes. It's like, WOW YOURRR INSULTING MY PIXELZZZ!!11!!1ONEONESPACEBAR4543!!2
:rolleyes:

I know exactly what mean. Some people, including yourself and I, are like that. No matter what anyone calls you, you know it's not true, so you have nothing to be worried about.

However, there are some people who might be in a more fragile state of mind, due to an event that has affected them in real life, and even the slightest trigger-word could send them spiralling to tears.

Bullies are usually filled with jealousy and envy: "Ooh, let's bully that kid because he is more intelligent than us..."
OR
Bullies are immature and big-headed fools who like to show off: "Ooh, let's bully that kid because he is not as rich as we are. Look, he's not got HC, 'coz he can't afford it!"

Bullies are the ones who usually stereotype someone. Cyber-bullying, (IMO), is not as bad as physical 1-to-1 bullying, however it affects people differently. As I've said, only in my opinion is it not as bad, because it isn't something that affects me. On the other hand though, there may be individuals that are more emotional and sensitive, who can really take things to heart.

As someone previously said; a lot of cyber-bullies will be those who have been bullied in real life. Not necessarily always true, but is an interesting pattern to follow. Those who have been bullied (generally) feel inferior. It revolves around power. The bully feels powerful. The victim feels inferior. Say... in a school environment, with that bully still present, how is that victim going to get the chance to "show off" his power from bullying other people. The answer is that it would be difficult for them to.

With the Internet expanding as it is, this "victim" could log into a website on the Internet, such as Habbo, which is a totally different environment to say... their school. There are no chains of power already established, and with such a large population, even if a "head bully" was to exist, there would be no way that everyone would be aware of it. Thus, this "victim" as I put it, now has the reassurance he requires. He has the ability to bully others, where he can pretend to be someone he's not. He might be a little 1 metre tall sprout, but on the Internet, he could be any height, his dad could be a murderer, and he could be "well 'ard".

If this victim wants reassurance that they are powerful, they are not going to start saying "sorry, sorry" if they tug on someone elses heart string. They feel better for themselves, and no longer feel "the bottom of the food chain". At school, they may be the victim; but at home they may be the bully. Cyber bullying is all psychological and emotional. Every human has emotions, and is thus succeptible to emotional bullying. However, with age, they will learn to shield their emotions from other people on the Internet, and to take things with a grain of salt.

Unfortunately, if someone's parent had recently died from cancer, and someone started spouting "hahahaha your mum's dead coz of cancer", although that idiot might not have known that the victim's mum had died of cancer, it might have flicked a switch in their mind which reduced them to tears in seconds, remembering the negative aspects of her illness, and ultimately her death. If this was a random spouting, it's bad. If it was a bully targeting that person whilst saying it, that's 50 times worse! (Obviously.)

It's hard to totally get rid of cyber-bullying, simply because some people are affected in different ways. Some content may not affect person A, but emotionally hurt person B. Where do you draw the line, and call it bullying? In my opinion, that would be when it is targeted at an individual, with the intention of offending. Whether it does offend them or not, that's not part of the question. If it could be interpreted as offensive, and is targeted at a specific person, it's clearly bullying.

Putting it clearly though: how difficult is it to remove all bullies from one school? Now think of all over the world at once. There is no way of monitoring absolutely everything on the Internet. Why would ISPs spend time to track down "cyber-bullies"? Raising awareness about them is all well and good, but I cannot see other ISPs saying "oh, let's go and hunt down cyber-bullies even though we're not being paid for it". Charitable people would do that, but not everyday people who are working for an ISP company for a living.

As much as I hate bullying, isolation and degredation of others, there is very little that can be done. Bullying has gone on as long as humans have existed, and will not stop just because *1* ISP has decided to raise awareness on the matter. Bullying will never (dare I say "ever"?) go away. More bullies might get punished for their actions, but they will never go away. The circle will just repeat itself. The bullies bully a group of people. In turn, a small number of that group become bullies themselves, who bully other small groups. A number of people out of those small groups begin to bully other people... and so on.

Actually, I think with this rant I've gone 5 miles off-course, and said nothing wholly valuable, but I sorta got carried away and... I'll post it anyway.

[Condas]

I Dont realy understand this

[Lubricant]

Being honest, how sad do you have to be to get bullied on the net though? :rolleyes:

Erm. It's more like how sad do you have to be to bully someone on the internet?