Cyberbullying a rising problem in elementary schools

[Deleted]

Au contraire, I got it plenty. I don't mean to sound condescending, but you seriously shouldn't give a shit what some faceless losers say... because I sure as hell don't. If anything I get a good laugh out of their responses as I have a tendency of trolling them back.

i dont believe you at all

[Daedius]

i dont believe you at all

Well then that's up to you to not believe me. Which would be curious, considering you seem to listen to the verbal abuse... do you believe in what they say ?

[Tico]

Unfotunately, bullying was always a problem. As kids get connected more and more, physical bullying transforms into cyber-bullying.

[kail]

what the fuck are these kids being bullied on? They cant have facebook. What type of online platforms are gradeschools on that they can be bullied. If im correct no child can create any online accounts in the us under 12?

They just ask for DoB when making an account, not your DL or SSN. You never lied to those during account creation or when watching porn? Hell I started selling/buying stuff on eBay when I was 13ish.

[Moon-Man]

http://www.wtvy.com/content/news/Cyb...436601853.html

A lot of this comes down to parenting doesn't it? Raise your children to not be bullies. How hard is that?
40% is way too high!

I was Cyber Bullied.


And Became stronger for it.

Bullying is a way of asserting yourself in society (especially for kids), its nature's way to weeding out the potential weak. Weak has no place on this planet.

U.S bullies other countries, Liberals Bullies all the time.

You can't stop bullying, you shouldnt stop bullying.

[Scroff]

That is often not an option but at least teach them to talk about it, often you don't even know your child is being bullied before it's to late, they can be masters at hiding problems.

100% agreed. I feel extremely fortunate that my daughter will talk to me about pretty much anything, including bullying issues. Eg one time some friends of hers were being mocked in You Tube videos by a couple of class mates and she asked me what to do. We reported the video on her account, my account, and got her friends to report it on their accounts. I said don't confront the class mates, don't even mention it, and do exactly the same each time a similar video was put up. You Tube acted quickly on the original video and it was taken down. As were the subsequent ones, and after a (to me) surprisingly short period of time You Tube closed the account.

This outcome reinforced my daughter's belief that talking to me was a valuable thing to do and gave her and her friends confidence to not be passive and use available channels to resolve issues.

[Molis]

Physical bullies usually already have several issues socially. Either their parents are terrible, or they themselves are awkward.
They use it to gain a higher social hierarchy.

Cyber bullies in most cases should just be ignored. They will learn in time no one gives a shit about them or their antics.

[Elba]

This is what happens when we get pussies rearing more pussies with this ott PC-Liberal era we're currently in who find it too much to grow a thick skin...

"Safe Space!", etc.

The past 2 generations are pathetic, and they want to drag the world with them.

Some bullying has actually been scientifically proven to build character in children and young adults. It can help toughen otherwise weak and ineffectual children up so they don't get stepped on for the rest of their lives.

I was Cyber Bullied.


And Became stronger for it.

Bullying is a way of asserting yourself in society (especially for kids), its nature's way to weeding out the potential weak. Weak has no place on this planet.

U.S bullies other countries, Liberals Bullies all the time.

You can't stop bullying, you shouldnt stop bullying.

I think this needs to be repeated. Bullying is not people saying mean things.

Bullying is ever escalating harassment and threats. Bullies don't go away when you block them. They come back and bring their friends, spamming your entire online presence with threats of rape and death. Relentlessly for months or years. You get doxxed, send shit to your house, get hundreds of calls, your family will become the target of it too. Your relatives will get doxxed too. You can't escape that shit.

Have a child? Congrats, someone will take a picture of it, jerk on the picture and send that to you in the mail.

But hey, that builds character I guess.

[Jaylock]

I think this needs to be repeated. Bullying is not people saying mean things.

Bullying is ever escalating harassment and threats. Bullies don't go away when you block them. They come back and bring their friends, spamming your entire online presence with threats of rape and death. Relentlessly for months or years. You get doxxed, send shit to your house, get hundreds of calls, your family will become the target of it too. Your relatives will get doxxed too. You can't escape that shit.

Have a child? Congrats, someone will take a picture of it, jerk on the picture and send that to you in the mail.

But hey, that builds character I guess.

Ok well if someone is being threatened online with death threats, then yeah that crosses the line. But how often does the scenario that you outlined ACTUALLY happen? I'd say its 1 in a million that that happens.

[Zeta333]

They just ask for DoB when making an account, not your DL or SSN. You never lied to those during account creation or when watching porn? Hell I started selling/buying stuff on eBay when I was 13ish.

then again these are bad parrents if they cant maintain thier children properly.

[Rennadrel]

Yes, because cyber bullying is SOOOOOOOOO much worse than IRL bullying! /s

The only difference is, on the Internet you can't kick some POS bullies ass, in IRL you can shatter his god damn jaw if you want to. It's obvious that between bullying in schools and now bullying online, that today's parents are both A) shitty parents who should be smacked B) clearly don't give a rats ass what their kids say or do online

When I was a kid, we didn't have internet communications like Facebook or Twitter until ICQ came around when I was in the 8th grade and by then most kids had grown up and you didn't have as many juvenile idiots going around harassing people and even then, bullies from my generation actually had the balls to harass you to your face, kids these days are cowards who hide behind a monitor and act tough but would probably eat dirt if they had to encounter bullies from my youth on the school yard. I had to pummel more than a few bullies in my youth too in order for the harassment to stop, and I am saddened to say that physical violence is really the only good way to deal with them.

[DrStiglit]

Lol dude. Kids aren't programmable robots. You can't just make them not be sensitive.

You can if you bully them from birth.

[Elba]

Ok well if someone is being threatened online with death threats, then yeah that crosses the line. But how often does the scenario that you outlined ACTUALLY happen? I'd say its 1 in a million that that happens.

All the women who work in media.

[Tennis]

Unfotunately, bullying was always a problem. As kids get connected more and more, physical bullying transforms into cyber-bullying.

Which is why we need to start thinking up strategies to combat cyberbullies!

[Kokolums]

Spanking is an interesting topic. There have been some studies done that claim spanking only makes kids act out more. On the other hand, the Amish use spanking throughout their entire society. Amish parents spank their kids, Amish teachers publicly spank kids, etc. Amish children are VASTLY more disciplined than non-Amish children. They've said they've had to spank one kid once in front of everyone, and the entire class was completely disciplined for the rest of the year.

I mean, its incredibly obvious we are doing something very wrong with how we raise kids when we look at Amish kids. If we can't figure this out, maybe just copy everything they do. Gotta be better than the current state of things.

[Seranthor]

Which is why we need to start thinking up strategies to combat cyberbullies!

You seem to have this talent for pointing at the obvious things in the world and stating the obvious... However, that talent doesn't extend to solution... Perhaps its time for you to step up and offer a solution.

[Deleted]

I can understand how children can be greatly influenced by it, since their online social networking is a much larger part of their lives, much more than it was in mine when I was growing up. My bullying ended when I got home, I had respite, I walked a different way to my friends house to avoid them and my shame wasn't paraded in-front of every single person within my social circle constantly. You can't remove bullies though, they're everywhere. You just have to better prepare children to deal with it and a lot of people just don't know how to do that when it comes to the internet.

I think some parents give their children far too much leeway online, social media especially. My little sister wasn't allowed on Facebook and Twitter until I was fairly confident she had the maturity to deal with the worst parts of people, I didn't have bullying in mind at the time as it was mostly just potential manipulators and predators, but it seemed to achieve a similar goal. It turned out for the best because she was bullied, in this case though the impact of the online bullying was minimal because it was a less prominent area of her life.

[helebelemon]

Niece is getting cyberbullied. Many of you have a very naive perception of exactly what cyberbullying is and its efficacy, or lackthereof. It does necessarily equate to anonymity. it can practically be the same as traditional bullying--people you physically know trashing your reputation albeit with one caveat--the amplification power from the connectivity of the internet. Go off the internet, etc.? That doesn't change the fact that people are using the internet and social media for obvious reasons.

[Deleted]

It's interesting to see that the way humans bully is evolving along with our technology.

Bullying is here to stay and we all know it. You can't stop people bullying but you can make children better equipped to deal with it.

[Hammerfest]

My take is this:

We have laws that say when a child can legally drink alcoholic beverages and, in at least one state, when a child can smoke marijuana. We have no laws yet that determine when a child should get to use social media (and therefore get their dopamine fix). Perhaps there should be such a law.