Was high school like this for anyone?
I could see middle school being like this but high school? Everyone just talks *beep* behind everyone's back. lawl
shareMiddle school? Definitely. Highschool? Hell to the no.
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MovieChat Forums > Cyberbully (2011) Discussion > Was high school like this for anyone?
High school is like this, maybe not for many people, but it's becoming increasingly common. It gets to the point where what people are saying about you is inescapable... So yes, I graduate in seven weeks, and this is still going on...
I can believe there is a big increase in cyber bullying. The internet social network stuff got big in like 2004 and on. I mean kids have cellphones with internet access, and when I say kids there was this 10 year old asking what kind of phone I had and I told him and he said he had the same phone!
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Middle school was definitely like this for me. Worst 3 years of my life - some of the darkest ones. I still have those insecurities in the back of my mind each and every day - stuff like this really affects you deeply, it's so hard to forgive and forget.
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It does happen in highschool, yes. Not mine, but I see it happening at my sisters school for instance. Especially since the Internet and social networking in general has become such a common aspect of highschoolers lives..it's becoming more common I think
...or something far more sinister?
That's one reason why even to this day I stay away from facebook and all that crap. I have always had to resist the peer pressure in that regards. Why bring on additional headache? All these social network sites exist to spread rumors and gossip and little else, its something I can live without.
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Middle school was definitely like this for me. Worst 3 years of my life - some of the darkest ones. I still have those insecurities in the back of my mind each and every day - stuff like this really affects you deeply, it's so hard to forgive and forget.I am so sorry you had to endure that. It really breaks my heart knowing there are kids of all ages having to go through this type of hell. You are so correct - this can affect a person deeply, so much that they hold onto it and suffer for years because of it. Thank you for posting.
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Haha no. Cyber bulling is just hype thing baby boomers have whipped up to maintain the climate of fear. Like sexting, idrugs and rainbow parties.
Like, people don't go out of their way to hack into your account and then have the whole school interested in your life. If anything, "oh, that's cool I guess".
Yep. My high school was hell.
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My high school was exactly like this, as was my elementary school. So yes it's realistic, yes it is a problem, and not just a hype. People who don't see it, or say their high school wasn't like it at all were probably not involved in the bullying, but it does happen. You may personally not see it or hear it, but it is there, and that's why something has to happen for it to stop.
shareI started high school this fall, and it honestly doesn't seem that way to me. People aren't super mean. I haven't seen anything like that. Maybe it's just because I'm not very social and I keep my limits, but my school has so many students...I just couldn't imagine that happening. I feel like these popular social cliques are a bit exaggerated, but I'm not saying the bullying is. That part is true.
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Totally Agree. Middle school... yes, socially awkward stage when you're just trying to fit in and the slightest comment could make you try to commit suicide? High School? not so much. Honestly I dont know anyone who would've handled the situation like Taylor, in the movie, did. Yeah sure people call each other sluts, skanks, and start rumors that this girl slept with this guy, but to go as far as to post it on someone's page blatantly? .......Probably not. First off, if anyone ever posted that on my facebook wall, ESPECIALLY if it wasn't true, I'd be like wtf....? I think that would make someone look obsessive and weird in my opinion, like the popular kids.. Why would they care so much? If someone had something to say like that, well thats what formsprings for I guess. High Schools are to fake for that to ever happen. And If people were talking about you on facebook... never would it be posted on YOUR wall, and rarely would it include your name. Just an obvious reference to someone. Secondly, If I ever got a post from a random creep saying I had given him an STD, well isen't this kind of obvious? "OMG!!! This is SOOO not true!!" would not be a response, as opposed to Taylors... If you didnt know him, why not write, "Dude, who the *beep* are you?" and then I would proceed to delete him. Im confused as to why she LEFT all those comments on her wall there, I would of deleted them or at least had the courage to defend myself. It wouldnt of bothered me as much as it did her considering they weren't true. Confuses me. Hard to relate to seeing how bullying OBVIOUSLY does happen, but NOT in this way. People are way to fake in high school.
shareI'll admit I had problems from grades 1-7, but I was an easy target and never stood up for myself. It was all piddle *beep* (and I'm a guy) such as me having cooties and was called weird names like Bushwacker (my last name is Bush...don't get political on me) and Natedogg...it eventually went away...I never did anything as extreme as to kill myself or anything (please), but when I got into high school, I was a huge outcast (I don't know whether having social media in my day would have been a good idea in my book or not), and to be honest, I don't talk to ANY of my old classmates on a regular basis (not even my cousin), not because I was shy, because I didn't click with them. I never had any "drama" with the other classmates, but I wasn't the most liked person in my school...and I'm okay with that...I'm not here to impress anyone.
Nowadays, I'm 27, and I have a great group of friends who respect me, as I do them. Not that I'm saying having friends from high school is a bad thing, but if you didn't make any friends, don't dwell on the fact that you didn't, and focus on the present, on the friends you do have...on a side note...if you've been out of high school for close to ten years like I have, and are still wondering why you never had friends in high school, and your reunion is coming up, and you're gonna pull a "Romy & Michelle" (good movie, btw) on everyone...why bother going...
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I'm experiencing something simillar at the moment. It's terrible!
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I am 32, I graduated high school in 1997, in San Diego with a school with over 1,500 students so this was not like that. But we did not have any social media sites and not too many people would go to chat boards or forums in those days. now fast forward to 2001/12. Social media sites are the "in" thing with tweens and teenagers. These kids live on them update everything they do 24/7 and so on. High school may not be exactly like this in every high school in the nation, but in many schools it is. Times change, when Generation X (my generation) graduated HS is was "cool" not to care about anything. Now this new generation it is all about the "look at me right now", "I am doing this.." "I am going here" etc.. All in all what I am saying is that to sat that HS is not like this, is to show you have no clue what you are saying. Many people have posted that it is and news coverage also indicates that is it like this in certain parts of the Nation.
sharemy High school is some what like this because i had a bad experience in grade 10 where me and my friends got bullied by others and friend became the bully which she started threatening to kill herself if we didn't do what she wants...
shareYou clearly have no idea about what high school is like. If you have no experience sincce the last millenium, why to even bother? Cyberbully is a movie, not real life. It's meant to be dramatic. Sure there's bullying in irl school and some of it is very harsh kids kill themselves etc, but this movie does not represent the reality. Just like a document wouldn't.
I hate people like you being so arrogant. Better say you know nothing than to claim you have a clue.
Sure there's bullying in irl school and some of it is very harsh kids kill themselves etc, but this movie does not represent the reality.It's not a reality? Yes, in real life this happens at high schools. My son just graduated this year and has told me horror stories. One of his band mates committed suicide a couple of years ago due to getting bullied so much. She could not take it anymore.
If this is not a reality and does not happen very much in high school, then why is suicide the 2nd leading cause of death among youth ages 10 to 24 years of age? Why is it the 3rd leading cause of death among youth 12 years of age to 18 years of age? Each day there are an average of 5,400 suicide attempts by youth in grades 7th thru 12th grades.
Just because this type of stuff does not go on in your high school or you do not notice it, it does not mean it does not go on in other high schools across the nation. It's just really sad and disturbing to see so many callous attitudes among this topic.
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I was never bullied on line. but I had some people in school bully me.
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