(October 8, 2012 at 8:05 pm)IATIA Wrote: A bully is the kid that takes your lunch money everyday at school, not some cyber-freak on the net.
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This bullshit of 'cyber-bullies' driving some dumb fuck to suicide is ridiculous.
Actually, I can't quite agree with you IATIA. I was bullied too, but I was terrorized mentally, not physically. (At that time, all I wished for was for my tormentors to have the balls to attack me, so that I could have hurt them in return, but since it was a ring of girls who orchestrated my torment, no one ever laid a hand on me.) The net was quite new around this time and I (fortunately) kept my e-mail address to myself (well, thankfully only a few had access to the internet back then), but they had my telephone number and used it outside school to bother me further. It got to the point when I couldn't look at the texts received or listen to my voice mail, since I knew that there was always something nasty waiting there. So yeah, technology can help the bully of making the target's life hell.
And sure, today you can ignore people in social media on the net, but can you stop your bullies from stealing your identity and make a fool out of you, presenting you as someone you aren't?
When I was young, there was a god with infinite power protecting me. Is there anyone else who felt that way? And was sure about it? but the first time I fell in love, I was thrown down - or maybe I broke free - and I bade farewell to God and became human. Now I don't have God's protection, and I walk on the ground without wings, but I don't regret this hardship. I want to live as a person. -Arina Tanemura
