...Figured this was assumed, considering the rising prevalence of social media in youngins
Sorry but if you kill yourself over "abusive messages on a social networking site" you have bigger problems than the people on the internet typing these messages. In the end they're just typed words, not nearly or even relatively as strong as real spoken words as they don't even properly express emotion, hence why it can be so hard to read sarcasm.
Where are the parents? The example people in the article are 14-15 years old, yet they're being bullied into depressive suicidal states and their parents don't know about it? This is almost as bad as blaming video games for violence, when it can all be avoided by some decent parenting and supervision, as well as self-control.
[QUOTE=Keychain;42378029]Sorry but if you kill yourself over "abusive messages on a social networking site"[/QUOTE]
Nobody kills themselves because of a few abusive messages. It's usually persistent harassment by multiple people, through multiple websites, and it often spreads into "real life" as well (as in damaging reputation, social life, etc.)
It's can also be a continuation of real-life bullying.
A lot of people don't seem to realize that "cyberbullying" isn't comparable to someone calling you a faggot once or twice Facepunch. It goes much deeper than that.
[QUOTE=Keychain;42378029]Where are the parents? The example people in the article are 14-15 years old, yet they're being bullied into depressive suicidal states and their parents don't know about it?[/QUOTE]
I've suffered from depression since around that age, and guess who never knew anything about it? Everyone I knew in real life. People like to think it's easy to spot but the truth of the matter is, if someone doesn't want you to know they're depressed, you won't.
[QUOTE=LarparNar;42378145]Nobody kills themselves because of a few abusive messages. It's usually persistent harassment by multiple people, through multiple websites, and it often spreads into "real life" as well (as in damaging reputation, social life, etc.)[/QUOTE]
Well that's true, though the article only mentions Ask.fm for that specific person. The article in general seems to make cyberbullying look like it is alone the cause for these suicides, and doesn't really go much more in-depth than that, which on paper sounds really silly. Had the article mentioned what you said, it would've done a much better job at getting across what it meant.
[QUOTE=Keychain;42378237]Well that's true, though the article only mentions Ask.fm for that specific person. The article in general seems to make cyberbullying look like it is alone the cause for these suicides, and doesn't really go much more in-depth than that, which on paper sounds really silly. Had the article mentioned what you said, it would've done a much better job at getting across what it meant.[/QUOTE]
I looked up the article about the girl who was bullied through ask.fm, and some people apparently wrote long paragraphs about her family, looks, etc. These things can hurt also if they're said by strangers.
Also in the article about that specific girl:
[quote]She says people at her school approached her about the posts, as they had also seen what was written.
"After I started getting hate I was just, I've had enough of this and deactivated my [account] because I kept getting upset."[/quote]
I'll agree the original article in this thread is a bit vague though, but if someone assumes she killed herself just from a a couple abusive messages, then it's their fault for being ignorant about it.
If it wasn't via SMS and social networks it'd be in person. Bullying happens. It's part of growing up and strengthening your character, unfortunately some kids are psychopaths for a little while. The ones who kill themselves were always gonna kill themselves at some point when life gets tough. This is simply another "think of the children" approach to emotionally blackmail people into internet censorship and it must not be allowed to progress.
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