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'She should have blocked them' 'She should have deleted her account' etc

posted 12 years ago by pixycorpse
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From the few threads I've read, it's become apparent I'm one of the few people who actually believe Cyperbullying is a real problem and can be just as bad, if not worse than "normal" bullying. As that one girl in the group session said, "normal" bullying doesn't follow you home, you can get away from it for a while. That doesn't happen with cyberbullying.
And to everyone who's said she should delete her account or block the people etc, my question is, why should she? Why is she the one who has to do something? She has the same right as everyone else to use the internet without fear of being attacked. Granted, I did wonder why she didn't just delete her profile and create a new one, but that was only after the bullying got so bad it was the most sensible solution to be able to continue using the website. Everyone's going on about how to deal with bullying after it's started. That's not what we need to focus on. We need to focus on preventing bullying. Teach people it's not okay to bully someone just because it's online and therefore somehow doesn't mean as much if it had happened in real life. Bullying someone online can cause problems in real life, making it that much harder to deal with.
Just because Americans have the right to freedom of speech doesn't make it right to use it.

[–] beetlejuice82008 11 years ago

I understand what you are saying. She should be allowed to go online with no problems. But Taylor could have used her social networking account with a little more ease if she didn't have her bully and the bully's followers as friends on the site. If the bully was blocked, Taylor wouldn't have to keep worrying constantly about what the bully is going to say and she also wouldn't have seen that stupid video she posted.

But the main problem was Taylor's obsession with the gossip. Every time Taylor went on the site, she only got more depressed and because she was so obsessed with the mean things being said, she didn't even try to see how much better things could have been if she didn't read the stuff at all. She didn't want to block the bully as a friend. There was a part - if I remember correctly - of her mom pestering her to delete her account, but she didn't want to because she was always curious to what was being said about her. Ingorance is bliss. Sure, the gossip will still be posted, but if she blocks the bully, deletes her account or not even log into the site she could have breathed a little easier. But again, she obsessed with what was being posted and that got into the way of a lot of her decisions.

Now, I know that it doesn't solve her entire bullying situation, but keeping the bully as a friend to pretty much spoon feed all the mean things being said about her is not really the way to go. And the way she kept needing to read everything that was being said wasn't a way to go either.

[–] radz2682 11 years ago

i agree with you completely on all your points. cyberbullying is a VERY real problem.
and while this movie doesn't expand on it as much as it could, has everyone forgotten the Amanda Todd case and just how bad it could actually get once it HAS spiralled out of control?
people don't realize the damage it can do. words hurt and it is as bad as bullying someone physically because in this case it affects them mentally and that can lead to dire consequences. (not say physical bullying doesn't just saying all kinds of bullying affect a person mentally).

http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/episodes/2013-2014/the-sextortion-of-amanda-todd

[–] thinkerbell42 10 years ago

I agree with you. I was cyberbullied when I was 16 and I never blocked my tormentors because I wanted proof of what they were doing. I just asked them to leave me alone and when their messages continued, it gave me fodder to use against them in the future.