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- WiseWeasel, on 06/29/2008, -1/+76You put them on your blocklist, and spend your time worrying about the real problems in your life.
- TWXM, on 06/30/2008, -0/+48"There are no checks and balances by our internet providers such as MySpace or Facebook." Since when was MySpace an ISP?
- ericnicolaas, on 06/30/2008, -0/+45"There needs to be a system in place where a parent would log a child in using a parent's credit card."
Great. Make the internet exclusively for those with credit cards. - SaladCactusKing, on 06/30/2008, -4/+38Let's give another round of applause to the media for creating an anti-internet ***** because of that dumb kid that hung herself when she got dumped by a pretend online boyfriend. Ugh
- hollywoodphony, on 06/29/2008, -1/+33Jeez. These kids today and their rock music.
- inactive, on 06/29/2008, -7/+34All of these problems are due to 4Chan, hurray!
- jiqiren, on 06/30/2008, -4/+28welcome to the internet you F'ing crybabies…
- SniperZero, on 06/30/2008, -0/+23oh my gawd... a convo between a friend(boy) and his friend (girl).
girl: this guy is really bothering me i think he is a pedophile
boy: well laugh at him just say a bunch of random ***** then block him
girl: no that would be mean
boy: ....
*girl has been blocked*
Seriously.. just block them its not hard.. its not like the sites don't have a block feature or programs. Even digg has a block feature... - inactive, on 06/30/2008, -1/+24Every time someone in real life seriously says "cyber bully" near me, I laugh in their face.
- MasterTroll, on 06/30/2008, -3/+23I have hidden a bomb somewhere in this thread. I'm taking all of you down with me.
- Nero9171, on 06/30/2008, -0/+20Someone needs to give me their milk money
- noahgelman, on 06/30/2008, -3/+20Cyber bullying only exists for retards who cant't click "Block"
Buried - anchor, on 06/30/2008, -1/+15Kids today are too god damn sensitive.
- psion01, on 06/30/2008, -1/+14The interesting thing about "cyber-bullying" is the similarities it shares with real bullying. It lacks the physical confrontations, but all the social consequences of getting on the wrong side of a particular crowd are present. However, cyber-bullying is more visible than the old fashioned kind, giving others the opportunity to see exactly the exchanges that are taking place. Cyber-bullies leave a nice, neat, digital trail that others can follow. This visibility makes cyber-bullies a choice target for nanny-state types who think the power of government can cure all social ills.
I hate to fall in with the "oh just suck it up crowd" but learning to fend for yourself in the face of this kind of social onslaught is an important part of growing up. As is dealing with the guilt that comes with eventually realizing one's caused suffering in others. - kakwakas, on 06/30/2008, -0/+12Did you get sent to the counselor a lot in high school?
- cerealjynx, on 06/30/2008, -1/+11Internet lesson #1
http://www.penny-arcade.com/images/2004/20040319h. ... - tdave365, on 06/30/2008, -0/+10Why is it called "bullying". Isn't what the article describes more like "cyber-harrassment"?
Instant credibility loss on pure mis-use of terminology. - jessehadden, on 06/30/2008, -1/+10"There needs to be a system in place where a parent would log a child in using a parent's credit card."
Why is this always the answer? It isn't, and shouldn't, be the responsibility of a web site or an ISP to be a surrogate parent. Why don't we have a system in place where a parent would log a child in... period? - fLUx1337, on 06/30/2008, -0/+9You will never take me, I have a back button!! Mwahahahhaha
- wolfdog1, on 06/30/2008, -0/+8Cyber-bullying is not something that just kids go through. Many adults are also victim of cyber-bullying, some even to a higher degree such as being threatened at work, getting fired from work because of "tips" given by cyber-bullies, businesses getting bad raps because of said cyber-bullies... the list goes on. Its not just a teen and kid thing. Anyone with the internet can be a victim of cyber-bullying.
- inactive, on 06/30/2008, -2/+10Kids these days are way too ***** sensitive about stupid *****...
Dont want to get random IM messages? Well then do not flash screen name on myspace page. - drakia, on 06/30/2008, -1/+8You're a ***** idiot. You don't need ANY computer knowledge to bully someone online (And by bully, I mean say mean things to, because that's what "cyberbullying" is), it's just words typed up on some lameass site like "MySpace" or "Nexopia." Then the kid goes and cries to his parents because he's been raised as a ***** pussy like most kids these days.
- eliburford, on 06/30/2008, -0/+7Hmm, the picture doesn't appear to be related to cyber-bullying.
- Olivaise, on 06/30/2008, -0/+7If someone can't handle harassment via internet, then I'd hate to see how they'd handle it in reality.
- qbthemc, on 06/30/2008, -0/+7I am a net thug 4 life.
- stupidStan, on 06/30/2008, -0/+6This concept has seemed to be lost somehow? Apparently it isn't as easy as it seems to block people on the internet... all of the 'block user' buttons on EVERY site must just be for show?
- Pantheran, on 06/30/2008, -0/+6Did anyone else notice that this guy's basic argument was "this girl was beaten in real life, facebook should really do something about that." Would the beating just not have happened if they couldn't upload the video to the internet? I certainly see a problem here, but it's not the internet.
Still, there is one great quote from this horrid, fear-mongering article: "There is no risk of any open communication in our environment." I certainly agree on that point. - MeatPlow, on 06/30/2008, -1/+7Couldn't she just block the punches?
- qwertydvorak, on 06/30/2008, -0/+6the ad council / government is doing their part:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seOQyMvG99w - SaladCactusKing, on 06/30/2008, -0/+5Is it that hard to just ***** log off or click "Report to Admins" or whatever? Jesus.
Children and teenagers have always been despicable to each other. Internet or not, nothing's really changed. - AlexanderZero, on 06/30/2008, -0/+5Now that everyone is using the internet it comes as a surprise that this place is cruel and elitist? HA! They should have tried using it five years ago!
- stupidStan, on 06/30/2008, -0/+5Yes, I read that. I consider that actually bullying.
If I come to your house and diarrhea on your carpet, it is not 'cyber-diarrhea', it is the real deal.
Also, if you are going to bag on my 'illiteracy' you might want to work a little on your capitalization and punctuation. - bbqsalad, on 06/30/2008, -1/+6Not really, More due to vast amount of ignorance seen in kids today. They have nothing going for them except a world going to *****. Most teenage boys I know are full of rage at the world and have this uncontrollable urge to call people "*****". I blame the gov, parents, school, *hiphop* (pop), MTV and society. These are the people who will be running the country someday.
-grandpa. - fr3ddie, on 06/30/2008, -0/+4or go for a freaking bike ride... sheesh!
- beankitty, on 06/30/2008, -2/+6Yet another "O RLY" moment. What's up with these lame "articles" taking up space on my digg widget?
- thegodfaza, on 06/30/2008, -0/+4So is this!
www.no.one.clicks.on.your.links.*****.org/id=wtf_m8 - bbqsalad, on 06/30/2008, -0/+4Anyone who takes people name-calling on the internet serious deserves to feel like *****. It is never ever going to stop, You will never be able to stop people from being anon so deal with it.
- qetuo, on 06/30/2008, -0/+4Or how about not having profile pages, or blogs, and only having people that you know on your im list. I know it is shocking only talking to people that you actually know.
- asdfva, on 06/30/2008, -0/+4How about... Don't raise your kids to be *****.
Then you won't have anonymous haters flexing on
other people. This, like most all issues, is a matter
of what a person decides to do... not what the internerd
allowed them to do. Administrators and authoritarians
are always, obviously, quick to blame anyone and
anything other than themselves and the people
responsible. Blame video games, blame the
internet, blame drugs, blame the schools...
When it all boils down to it... We should be blaming
the ***** who do bad ***** and work to educate
new parents on the dangers of allowing their
children to become *****.
But seriously... I blame the internet. - 4madeus, on 06/30/2008, -0/+4One of my pals used to sell computers using free online classified ads and one day he sold this machine to some idiot who wanted to overclock a 368 mhz PC to play Quake on. He warned him not to, but the idiot did it anyway, burned out the CPU, and blamed him for selling him a bad PC, then smeared his reputation connected to his username on the site in question.
My pal posts anonymously now. - AlexanderZero, on 06/30/2008, -0/+4NOOO! Not my cyber universe!
- Halsfield, on 06/30/2008, -2/+5"A group of Florida teenagers filmed the beating of Victoria Lindsay on mobile phones to post on to the internet."
beating someone up in RL and taping it to put on the internet to humiliate the person? wtf - psion01, on 06/30/2008, -0/+3It doesn't work because there are no direct consequences to offensive behavior online. Combine that with a complete lack of the non-vocal cues we normally use when we're talking to someone such as body posture and facial expressions, and it's very easy for tempers to flare or imagine that someone is saying something much more harshly than they actually intend.
Clifford Stohl, in his book "Silicon Snake Oil" (an anti-internet diatribe that reminded me of gramps complaining about kids on his grass), compared the phenomenon to road rage, drawing a parallel between the way people communicate via the Internet with the way they casually hurl invectives and flip each other off while driving.
I don't know if it's the lack of a critical component of communications (body language and vocal inflection), or the lack of consequences to being rude (such as a good, old-fashioned bloodied nose), but people today are faced with learning whole new ways to cope with each other. - identitymatrix, on 06/30/2008, -0/+3All the flaming online is a side effect of so many new people getting on the Internet in such a short time period. Lots of people are still connecting to the internet for the first time everyday, and so the internet is continuously giving new people easy access anonymous speech, and their first reactions will be to abuse it. At the internet matures, and the amount of time of the average internet user increases, the majority of people will probably grow tired of random flames and so the attacks will die down. They'll still be able to randomly attack people anonymously, but it will lose its novelty and will be looked down upon.
Or at least that is what I'm hoping. I could be wrong, and humans just haven't evolved to the point where they can handle anonymous speech responsibly. - chiefbandit2200, on 06/30/2008, -0/+3Agreed. Plus not everybody has a credit card.
- paidhima, on 06/30/2008, -0/+3The problem with an idea like that is that any kind of online ID is still inherently anonymous. A license plate corresponds to a car (with associated VIN) and a person. It's easy to tell if that license plate is being used correctly. An online ID wouldn't correspond to anything unless the entire Internet were government regulated and controlled.
- thegodfaza, on 06/30/2008, -0/+3It should show a couple of 1's picking on a 0 since he is "vertically challenged".
- rentmitchum, on 06/30/2008, -3/+5***** that, I'd beat the ***** out of those fags with my Internet Toughguy trophy... *****... fag.
- Pixelante, on 06/30/2008, -1/+3That's because kids today have led a sheltered life. Their goddamn helicopter parents do not allow them to do anything dangerous. They can't own a hunting knife, they can't own flare pistols, they're not allowed to experiment with homemade explosives.
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