Delete CyberBullying

[weber9176]

Jim gets home from school expecting to be able to relax by logging on to the internet to socialize with friends and play his favorite video games. Instead, he is bombarded with a barrage of hateful comments. These hateful comments are a type of cyberbullying. Cyberbullying is the use of electronics to send hurtful or threatening messages to other people. As avid gamers and Youtubers, we have experienced cyberbullying like Jim, and it is very hurtful. Cyberbullying is a very common problem online, and it can lead to mental and social problems. As a result, we want you to help us to stop cyber bullying by sharing this post and telling the people you know about how and why to stop cyberbullying.
Cyber Bullying needs to be stopped because it affects the social and mental health of its victims. Researchers have found that Cyberbullying can cause depression. Depression can have a number of serious effects on a person’s life such as “... low self esteem, anxiety,
high rates of school absence, and physical illness...Experts hesitate to say that bullying is a direct cause of suicide, but it may be a factor in a teen’s depression...The Cyberbullying Research Center found that victims of cyberbullying were more likely to suffer from low self esteem and suicidal thoughts” (“Bullying and Depression”). Cyber-bullying can affect people in horrible ways. You may not think what you say can hurt people, but if for a moment you have second thoughts about telling them what you want to say, you probably shouldn’t say it. “When people are bullied, harassed or assaulted as a result of their identity or connection to a marginalized social group, the negative messages they have absorbed reverberate throughout their lives” (“Safe@School”). For example, if a group of friends made fun of someone online for being part of a certain race or social status, later in life they might still believe they are lesser. Social and trust issues seem to spread from bullying. Bullying can hurt others. Bullying can scar others. Bullying has no purpose. Please, help stop bullying.
There are many reasons people cyberbully, but none of these reasons give people an excuse to hurt others. The National Council on Crime Prevention reports that in a survey of teenagers, 81% said they believe others cyberbully because they think it’s funny. Because they don’t see their victims’ reactions in person, cyberbullies may not realize how much damage they are doing (“Delete Cyberbullying”). They never see the person they bully and might barely know them, so they never think of the consequences. But there are consequences. In addition, cyberbullies “... are often motivated by anger, revenge or frustration. Sometimes they do it for entertainment or because they are bored and have too much time on their hands and too many tech toys available to them” (STOP cyberbullying”). “Experts say that often times cyberbullying is done to fit in. Sometimes kids will cyberbully to fit in with a group of friends or a clique. As a result, these kids succumb to peer pressure in order to be accepted by a group at school, even if it means going against their better judgment” (Gordon). People decide that they need to put others down to make themselves more popular or powerful. People who want you to do this aren’t real friends, and doing this won’t make you powerful. It makes you pathetic because the strong defend the weak; they don’t prey on the weak.Don’t be a cyber-bully because even the bullies suffer from this situation. A bully is like a throwing stone because when the stone hits the water, the water is disturbed and the stone drowns. People who bully will usually regret it later in life. Bullying clearly has negative effects on the bully and the victim, so there is no reason why someone should ever bully.
Do you play videogames? If you do, you need to read this. Cyber-bullying in video games can be worse because there are more possibilities people can bully. There are some people who play online video games for the purpose of harassing other players. These bullies might even be adults who are wanting to target younger kids. (“Cyber-bullying and Video games”). People have figured out how to bully in video games by trolling. This could include intentionally losing games, raging, or even stalking. Before you troll, think of the repercussions of your actions. Trolling isn’t cool, and it isn’t funny. “On top of harassing their targets inside the game, many of these griefers will also figure out how to harass them outside of the game – through various forms of manipulation (such as acquiring cell phone numbers) – and sending them threatening text messages” (“Cyber-bullying and Video games”). The goal of these individuals is to make the gaming experience as awful for their targets as possible. Cold hearted people like this are insecure themselves and need to insult you to feel better. Don’t let these people get to you. Remember that the people who do this are like parasites because they need you much more than you need them. “Some bullies will spend their time trying to figure out their target’s password or hack into that person’s account. Once inside, these bullies can wreak havoc by sending a slew of messages that will appear to be sent from the victim when in fact they are not.” Bullies can even do what they want with your account or e-mail and make it look like you did it! The people who do this are greedy, heartless monsters. Before you trust someone, try to figure out their background or true intentions. Don’t fall prey to one of these wolves in sheep’s clothing. “Hackers can also choose to infect their target’s gaming systems with viruses. Many online gaming platforms and social networks, for example, have chat boxes built into them. As such, nefarious individuals can paste links to viruses, malware and spyware in them (“Cyber-bullying and Video games”). There are also people who go to lengths spreading viruses. Even though this doesn’t seem like bullying, it is. It is even nastier than other types of bullying because of the amount of real world damage it can do.
There are many people getting cyberbullied right now as you are reading this post, and it has to be stopped. Cyber bullying isn’t a problem that can be solved by money. It takes everyone who uses technology to join together to say “no” to cyber-bullying. We have posted this article for you to read to raise awareness. You read our post. Now spread this forum post to your friends so they will understand the risks and consequences of cyberbullying. We need people like you to spread our message to eliminate cyberbullying. Together, we can make the online world a more peaceful place.


















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[Blessed Evelyn]

i need a tl;dr if you expect me to get my 2 hours of sleep

[AVINE]

Cheese: 76 původně napsal:

i need a tl;dr if you expect me to get my 2 hours of sleep

I did a good tl;dr on my comment

[The Rock God]

Ishan451 původně napsal:

Offense is not given, it is taken.

Last thing we need in life are safe spaces. Children are way to coddled already.

How about instead of worrying about bullying we start to worry about what actually is the problem here: Lack of proper parenting.


People saying mean things about you is part of life. Coddling our children, instead of teaching them how to properly deal with it, is the issue what there are suicides and whatnot. Its not the fact that people are mean, its the fact that these children lack the proper support from their family.

A child killing themselves, or falling into depression, is nobodies fault but their parents, as clearly their parents failed in their responsibility. Their child didn't feel like it could talk with their parents.


And honestly, if you cannot handle the amount of bullying that happens in school and throughout your teenage years, you are absolutely unprepared for what will happen to you once you enter the workforce. You know, when people will bully and backstab you because you are successful, or not successful enough... or simply because they need a stress release and you are a victim, created thanks to your parents and teachers and well meaning and good intention-ed enablers trapping you in the role of the Victim for the rest of your life.

Bullies know what they are doing is wrong. They just don't care. Being bullied is a choice. It is a choice if you allow yourself be bullied.

You know what happens to those kids? They turn into this guy:
http://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/7/412449508278050695/

Short version: Guy is being bullied at school over a game he plays. Doesn't think teachers care. His plan is to tell the other students' parents that they are bullying him at school.
The guy is in college. Yes, you read that right. He's not some 14 year old kid. He's an adult.

[grounded in reality]

Delete the system 32 virus to download more RAM.

[Blessed Evelyn]

zeus賞賛のゼウス původně napsal:

Delete the system 32 virus to download more RAM.

im dying like vinny during any stream ever

[Voltage]

But if we stop "Cyberbullying", I won't have anything else to laugh at. http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=633990711

[Voltage]

Also, I'm guilty of hacking and griefing in Minecraft. *insert deal with it glasses*

[Tanya Degurechaff]

Voltage původně napsal:

But if we stop "Cyberbullying", I won't have anything else to laugh at. http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=633990711

what a nice compliment. edit* still see op hasn't replied, this is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ harrasment!

[Blessed Evelyn]

Hinami původně napsal:

Voltage původně napsal:

But if we stop "Cyberbullying", I won't have anything else to laugh at. http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=633990711

what a nice compliment. edit* still see op hasn't replied, this is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ harrasment!

https://youtu.be/7HoCKlNsolc

[Tanya Degurechaff]

Cheese: 76 původně napsal:

Hinami původně napsal:

what a nice compliment. edit* still see op hasn't replied, this is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ harrasment!

https://youtu.be/7HoCKlNsolc

Ear rape that's bullying :( sewed.

[suksas]

Ishan451 původně napsal:

Offense is not given, it is taken.

Last thing we need in life are safe spaces. Children are way to coddled already.

How about instead of worrying about bullying we start to worry about what actually is the problem here: Lack of proper parenting.


People saying mean things about you is part of life. Coddling our children, instead of teaching them how to properly deal with it, is the issue what there are suicides and whatnot. Its not the fact that people are mean, its the fact that these children lack the proper support from their family.

A child killing themselves, or falling into depression, is nobodies fault but their parents, as clearly their parents failed in their responsibility. Their child didn't feel like it could talk with their parents.


And honestly, if you cannot handle the amount of bullying that happens in school and throughout your teenage years, you are absolutely unprepared for what will happen to you once you enter the workforce. You know, when people will bully and backstab you because you are successful, or not successful enough... or simply because they need a stress release and you are a victim, created thanks to your parents and teachers and well meaning and good intention-ed enablers trapping you in the role of the Victim for the rest of your life.

Bullies know what they are doing is wrong. They just don't care. Being bullied is a choice. It is a choice if you allow yourself be bullied.

Truth be told not nececery. It's easy to accuse parents of the victim or a victim in not being able to handle bullyinh when you haven't felt actual bullying yourself or atleast only had minimal encounter with it. Heck some of the bullying is just a banter between friends.

And there is a difference between bullying in school and workplace. The difference is that many of the things bullies do in school are not allowed at work.
Backstabbing isn't a form of bullying,it's part of the success and can even be done by a jealous nerd.

Thought cyber bullying is the easiest thing to handle as you can simply mute the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.

[WERElektro]

Hm... just pointing something out:
Cyberbullying can not be compared to bullying in Real life.
While in rl everyone can see your superficial flaws, this is not the case on the internet...
UNLESS you let your guard down by .. dunno... Speaking about your feelings, uploading pictures of yourself or speaking to someone via voice chat, teamspeak or skype or whatever.

On the internet you're pretty much responsible for yourself. While ..years ago I experienced bullying first hand -as a victim - I have never had any problems on the internet.

Kids today are too quick to share personal information. When I became basically addicted to the internet (lol) I would have never even considered sharing personal information - and neither did anyone I knew.
Now with social media , it's almost obligatory to upload picture of yourself for example. But if you don't meet societies' definition of "pretty", Then don't upload pics which you could be bullied for!! Don't show ANY characteristic you might be bullied for!

[D.B. Gennifer]

hah same
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAI11WFB-K0

[Raz'Hikel]

"Hahahahahahahaha How The ♥♥♥♥ Is Cyber Bullying Real Hahahaha ♥♥♥♥♥ Just Walk Away From The Screen Like ♥♥♥♥♥ Close Your Eyes Haha" -Tyler, The Creator

[kate]

Jim just kinda needs to suck up and deal with it. He seems like a bit of a ♥♥♥♥♥.