• Rebecca Ann Sedwick, 12, commits suicide after extensive harassment
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[url]http://news.yahoo.com/us-girl-commits-suicide-cyber-bullying-160924387.html[/url] [quote=AFP]A 12-year-old Florida girl who suffered months of ruthless cyberbullying from other girls committed suicide this week, authorities say. Rebecca Ann Sedwick of the town of Lakeland in central Florida jumped from a platform at an abandoned cement plant near her home on Monday, according to the Polk County sheriff's office.[/quote]
-snip- jesus fucking christ. whatever. ill stop stating opinions.
natural selection idc shower me in boxes [highlight](User was banned for this post ("Shitposting" - MaxOfS2D))[/highlight]
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So if people repeatedly bully over phone calls is it called telebullying or is there only a special title for Internet based bullying?
[QUOTE=Chubbles;42193010]People need to stop taking the internet so seriously. I realize it's just a kid, but maybe they shouldn't be on the internet then...[/QUOTE] victim blaming is really cool
[QUOTE=Chubbles;42193010]People need to stop taking the internet so seriously. I realize it's just a kid, but maybe they shouldn't be on the internet then...[/QUOTE] We had this discussion the last time something like this happen, and I'm going to say the same thing here: They can call it 'cyber-bullying' all they want (which, from my perspective, trivializes the act), but it's straight-up bullying. We need to stop using "Well, it's the internet..." as an excuse for people to act like assholes.
[QUOTE=Chubbles;42193010]People need to stop taking the internet so seriously. I realize it's just a kid, but maybe they shouldn't be on the internet then...[/QUOTE] Some people would faint at the slightest hint of some of 4chan's boards.
[QUOTE=Faz;42193013]natural selection idc shower me in boxes[/QUOTE] okay then you guys rate this guy with 'winners'. makes total fucking sense.
Close the computer, turn off your phone for a while. Out of sight, out of mind. I might get dumbs but oh well not like i'm saying it's right to be an ass on the internet though.
[QUOTE=erfinjerfin;42193032]victim blaming is really cool[/QUOTE] The parents carry a good portion of the blame, here.
[QUOTE=AJisAwesome15;42193065]Close the computer, turn off your phone for a while. Out of sight, out of mind. I might get dumbs but oh well not like i'm saying it's right to be an ass on the internet though.[/QUOTE] Cyberbullying is, to my understanding, just an extension of actual bullying at school. It's bad because you used to be able to unwind at home, but now some people go home and get showered even there. Must be very frustrating
"pussy, people shouldn't give a shit about cyberbullying"
[QUOTE=Chubbles;42193010]People need to stop taking the internet so seriously. I realize it's just a kid, but maybe they shouldn't be on the internet then...[/QUOTE] There should be licenses and tests for internet use. Would cut down on those that flip out when someone called them a noob in a game of Counter-Strike. [editline]14th September 2013[/editline] [QUOTE=deltasquid;42193081]but now some people go home and get showered even there. Must be very frustrating[/QUOTE] Think of turning off your electronic devices as an umbrella. If you still go on whatever electronic devices you have, you'll get rained on still. If you don't, you don't get rained on.
[QUOTE=AJisAwesome15;42193065]Close the computer, turn off your phone for a while. Out of sight, out of mind. I might get dumbs but oh well not like i'm saying it's right to be an ass on the internet though.[/QUOTE] fuck if only she knew she could turn off her internet then maybe she wouldnt have killed herself aren't you a grade A advice giver
It also helps if you consider the source too. I mean, if someone on /b/ or /v/ calls you a faggot, they're likely some lonely neckbeard, and you really shouldn't take any insults like that to heart.
What's a kid that young doing on social networking sites?!
[QUOTE=Bradyns;42193127]What's a kid that young doing on social networking sites?![/QUOTE] And doesn't COPPA require that you've got to be 13 to sign up for US-based sites? Though it [I]is[/I] trivial to bypass it by giving a fake DOB...
[QUOTE=deltasquid;42193081]Cyberbullying is, to my understanding, just an extension of actual bullying at school. It's bad because you used to be able to unwind at home, but now some people go home and get showered even there. Must be very frustrating[/QUOTE] If the bullying happens outside of an electronic medium, it's not really cyber bullying anymore is it?
[QUOTE=Trunk Monkay;42193154]If the bullying happens outside of an electronic medium, it's not really cyber bullying anymore is it?[/QUOTE] I don't really care about the term, really. I'm just explaining that bullying online isn't just isolated to online, most of the time. If some guy on counter-strike tells me he fucked my mom, I mute him. If some asshat at school tells me he'll beat my ass unless I pay him my lunch money, and brags about it on his facebook wall, I'd still tell him to fuck off but I can see how it would upset some people.
Why is cyber bullying in quotes I'm the title? That's disrespectful
anyone living in a first world country that actually goes through with the act of suicide is mentally ill and needed treatment, regardless of the trigger event.
[QUOTE=JeanLuc761;42193035] We need to stop using "Well, it's the internet..." as an excuse for people to act like assholes.[/QUOTE] I think the problem has to do more with anonymity.
[QUOTE=The golden;42193170]Being called a faggot on a random imageboard is not bullying. That's just schoolyard insulting.[/QUOTE] Well alright, forgive me if I sound ignorant, but when does it become cyberbullying?
[QUOTE=AJisAwesome15;42193219]Well alright, forgive me if I sound ignorant, but when does it become cyberbullying?[/QUOTE] When it becomes persistent I guess.
Jesus, I don't even know what to say. I can't even comprehend how mentally fucked she'd have to already be at 12 to even think of suicide.
[QUOTE=The_Marine;42193245]Jesus, I don't even know what to say. I can't even comprehend how mentally fucked she'd have to already be at 12 to even think of suicide.[/QUOTE] constant hatred can take a serious toll on someone at any age, you don't have to be "mentally fucked" to be hurt by it
wheres the internet police when u need it the most gota backtrace the bullys
[QUOTE=AJisAwesome15;42193115]It also helps if you consider the source too. I mean, if someone on /b/ or /v/ calls you a faggot, they're likely some lonely neckbeard, and you really shouldn't take any insults like that to heart.[/QUOTE] [quote]The bullying apparently started with a dispute over a boy that Sedwick had dated for a while, the New York Times reported.[/quote] what you guys have to understand is that majority of 'cyber-bullying' occurs when bullies irl decide to fuck with you online its easier to ignore fedora neckbeards you'll never meet it's not so when it's real life people you know whose probably spreading all these information to everyone you know and will have to suffer it in real life when you go to school as well
[QUOTE=The_Marine;42193245]Jesus, I don't even know what to say. I can't even comprehend how mentally fucked she'd have to already be at 12 to even think of suicide.[/QUOTE] 'eughghg all these hurtful submissions on my ask.fm are too much, not to mention the agonizing tweets of hate, there's only one thing to do, kill myself. at least then people might think I'm cool like amanda todd. maybe one direction will make a tweet about me, oh shit better kill myself even quicker, might even get some bieber on it."
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