Stories of Cyber Bullying
October 13th, 2008 by admin
Currently, cyber bullying is one of the fastest growing problems facing school administrators and local governments around the country. Cyber bullying is defined as using the computer or other electronic devices to intimidate, threaten or humiliate another individual. Cyber bullying most commonly takes place on the Internet among students from a given school or neighborhood.
What follows is a series of highly publicized cases of Cyber bullying – each one chosen to shed light on the nature of the problem and the fallout that ensues when one young individual uses technology to hurt another person psychologically.
The Megan Meier MySpace Incident
Megan Meier was a 13 year old from Missouri who struck up an online friendship on the popular social networking site MySpace with a person she believed was a new boy in her hometown. In actuality, the “friend” was a group of individuals, including adults, who were intent on humiliating the poor girl because of a friendship with another child that had gone awry. Megan was very upset when she found out the truth, then later committed suicide once the friendship had terminated. The horrifying case stunned the community and caused state government officials to pass some of the harshest cyber bullying laws in the country.
The “Kill Kylie” Campaign of Hate and Homophobia
Kylie Kenney, an eighth grade student from Vermont lost two years of her life as a result of cyber bullying from classmates. From junior high through her sophomore year of high school, Kylie was forced to deal with websites created by her classmates that featured names like “Kill Kylie Incorporated” that were filled with threatening, homophobic remarks about the young girl. These hurtful kids obtained screen names with handles close to Kylie’s name and used them to make suggestive remarks and sexual advances on Kylie’s teammates on the field hockey team. As a result police filed charges of harassments against the individuals responsible.
The “Dog Poop Girl”
In South Korea, a female college student was riding the train with her dog when it defecated on the floor of the subway car. After the girl refused to clean up the mess, another passenger on the train took her picture using her cell phone and posted it online. In the months to follow, it became an Internet sensation in South Korea and “Dog Poop” girl became the target of extreme harassment. Individuals found out her name and address and soon she was forced to withdraw from school and move to another part of the country.
A Fake Facebook Rival
This year in Clinton Missouri, charges were filed against a teenager who allegedly created a fake Facebook account to serve as a competition against a young girl who was interested romantically in a male student. The account was created by another girl who wanted the boy all to herself, the suit claims. As a result, the targeted individual underwent significant levels of stress which affected her studies and her ability to attend school regularly. The case is one of many that feature phony accounts on Facebook or MySpace that are used to harass young people or stir up trouble among friends.
Cyber Bullying has become a worldwide problem because of the difficulty to track its occurrences. It some cases it has been accepted as humor, but when is it taken to far? When a child has taken her own life because she was cyber bullied, we know it has been taken way too far.
Cyber bullying has been present in the 2008 presidential election with the slurrying of both presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama. Even the vice-presidential candidates Sarah Palin and Joe Biden have been victims of this abuse. These slanders wouldn’t technically be considered cyber bullying, but are loosely related. Senator Sarah Palin has received the worst of it with the creation of videos mocking her interviews on Saturday Night Live. NBC reports over 7 million views online, with millions more watching it on YouTube and Google video.
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Tags: Cyber Bullying Stories, dog poop girl, kylie kenney, saturday night live sarah palin, stories of cyber bullying
October 13th, 2008 at 2:04 pm
I was cyberbullied at age 40 by someone that tried to beat me up in highschool but I ended up kicking their ass. They held that grudge for 28 years before Googling me, figuring out my employer, and sending porn to everyone in the company directory, including clients, with poorly forged headers to look like it was coming from me. My employer was very understanding, but some clients were not.
I don’t know what the point of this story is, other than some people need to seriously get a life.
October 13th, 2008 at 4:06 pm
^^ lol
October 13th, 2008 at 5:22 pm
Damned kids. These kids are obviously fairly bright, creative, and cunning. And they’ve got the ability to research, track, and concoct sitcom-esque shenanigans. Why would they waste that kind of talent and teamwork on calling some kid gay, or sending pr0n to people 30 years later?
Kids are always saying things like, “why aren’t kids ever allowed to do anything important?”
THIS IS WHY. Despite all of the great qualities of kids, they always seem to waste their talent on something involving other kids.. When I was young, I was fairly bright and quick witted. I knew how to read and write by the time I was 5. Harassing other children didn’t rank high on my list of priorities. I wrote stories, went fishing, played games, and did other things that any smart kid should be doing.
Oh, and I grew up in the slums of Dallas with full time working parents, in a leaky house with no roof on part of it. I don’t wanna hear about “disadvantaged kids turn out bad.” You work with what you’re given. I was given no more than any other kid I ever knew, and yet I never turned out to be a pr0n-emailing asshole. Kids are a waste of perfectly good brain activity.
November 4th, 2008 at 2:00 am
Dear Bruce,
Your self centered it seems.
I Myself am a kid, 18 in-fact, and in some parts I do not agree with you. I too wrote stories, went fishing, played games and did other things that a “smart kid” could or should be doing. One question I would like to ask as what you mean by “smart kid”? By using that terminology it seems as if you don’t really know where to classify yourself and putting children as a whole down. Down past the level you had already put them in the stereotypical, judgemental comment of “Kids are always saying things like, ‘why aren’t kids ever allowed to do anything important?’”. I believe most kids now a days have two full time working parents no matter the class. Also I don’t think a lower class was put down by any of this cyberbullying crap.
Also some children may harass others but it may not be a top priority. Some of these kids may feel hurt and need attention and the only way they can get rid of that is by causing others pain and attracting attention negatively.
Worth,
Im sorry that happened to you. Some people never grow up and need the attention whether it is negative or positive.
Thank You
November 11th, 2008 at 12:59 pm
yes its true we’ve learned how to learn form our mistakes but we make the mistake of trying it again and again its one of those things we wont learn soon this will take us some time to really look and see what kind of harm we’re doing to our selves and others but we’ve slow or blind some times both
November 14th, 2008 at 9:46 am
Listen it’s not about living conditions that choose your activities, dont compare lives because that where observers go wrong. It’s about personal will, and the will to go through with it. The way one person chooses their choices changes their lives, so those who can’t understand them selves or feel detacthed from something move on to harassing someone on the computer because thats their main power for them.
Their just weak, nothing powerful, its the fact that kids are stupid enough to reveal in their own slaughter by following up on what they see and hear. They think the willl live with that their whole life they never understand people come and go, They should get over their own selfish desires to show affection to them self
November 25th, 2008 at 10:40 am
Hi, this behavior is very much a form of abuse; Peer Abuse. We need to take this seriously and stop feeding these bullies.
Keep blogging on this, we need more people to speak out!
Take Care,
Elizabeth Bennett
Peer Abuse Know More!
November 28th, 2008 at 7:10 pm
Bruce your right kid that do that kind of bullying at often very bright but that does not mean that they think like adults do. with out kids there would be no adults. every one was a kid at some point in time. Kids are not the only ones that bully; take worth says for instants, he is in his 40’s and was bullied by an adult. I think maybe its you that is a waste of brain activity.
December 8th, 2008 at 10:15 am
WAT IS THEIR PROBLEM THESE PEOPLE HAVE NO LIVES. HOW COULD YOU DO SOMETHING SO LIFE TREATENING IN 14 AND I HAVE NEVER HURT ANOTHER PERSON INTENSIONALLY. I MAY SOMETIMES GET IN TROUBLE BUT I NEVER AND WILL NEVER HURT SOMEONE ONLINE. ITS JUST SOMETHING THAT CANT BE DONE. SO BEFORE PEOPLE SAY THAT KIDS ARE IMMATURE AND DONT THINK AND ARE ALL BULLIES WHEN IT COMES TO THE INTERNET. LOOK AT ME AND MAYBE UNDERSTAND ITS OT ALL OF US.
December 11th, 2008 at 11:24 am
I feel so bad for Kylie she should not have to deal with such horrible things. Oh poor little baby.
December 13th, 2008 at 5:40 am
And note
*I HAVE to Hide my Real Myspace because of all this. My family shouldnt have gotten put out there and these people told alot of my personal problems. i cant add certain people because i am worried of the moron chatter who started all this to find it. i have had 6 myspace accounts in the past 4 months. he sits and reports them everytime i come in. i have 2 fake ones i have to use.
-renee
January 8th, 2009 at 3:16 pm
[...] cases of cyber-bullying have escalated into more severe challenges for school authorities and government [...]
January 12th, 2009 at 1:41 pm
Yea bullying is terrible.. even if it was bad to critically life threatening… people say so many hurtful things to people, that you wouldn’t think anyone would think of. ive been myself harassed, being a high schooler, and im sure it will keep happening more frequently. as much as everyone hates it, they too can be sometimes hypocrites. I’ve seen plenty of people say “i hate when people bully others”..when really they either tag teams with the bullier, or don’t do anything about the situation. i know some people don’t like admitting it.
Even I am trying to fully purify myself with a new, positive attitude. I’m trying really hard to become a friendlier person, by getting involved with community groups, and being social.
I hope everyone here, tries to help other people out, and not follow the crowd. Do what your heart tells you, because it’s never wrong.
February 16th, 2009 at 6:43 am
The internet is the benefit of our modern age. Now…is it a waste of mental activity to research someone online and bully them as much as possible? yes. But isn’t a bigger waste of a mental activity to give these individuals the same kind of privileges as those who are responsible and mature enough to handle the internet? To be honest, I think that the right thing to do is to, besides proper criminal charges, would be to deny those people who bully others online their rights to use a computer for the rest of their lives. When a child molester leaves jail, he is posted on a community watch list and therefore he is restricted to go near schools, parks, and other places where there may be possible victims. I believe that in order to cut this problem out and move forward, those people who cause these despicable effects on others, should not only be sentenced to jail but also restricted indefinitely to ever use a computer in their lives. In this modern age where satellites are weapons and the computer database is a superhighway of communication, those people who do not know how to use such power an abuse it should be simply vanished from the benefit that it is to use or even own a computer. Lets look at it basically, a bully is an insane individual who was abused at some point in his life and feels the need to find retribution by harming others….as such…we must realize that in life there are no causes without effects and as a proper effect to the problems caused by their misbehavior…such CRIMINALS should be dealt with swiftly and promptly.
February 18th, 2009 at 10:51 pm
I think it’s important to note that it is not just kids and teens doing this. The Megan Meier story involved adults using the internet to put others down.
February 24th, 2009 at 8:36 am
i have been cyber bulled a couple of times but i usallly just tell them off and they leave me alone i don’t think it’s right to cyber bully and sone kid in my school used to get cyber bulled untill he tracked the guy who waz a family friend of 30 and he is now in jail for life it sucks so much to be bulled even just in real life i have been regular bulled for 4 years by the same girl and im sick and tired of it and the next time she bullys me im going to stand up for myself so i think every one should stand up for people and bullying should stop for ever and cyber bulling should be a punishableby law because people who get away with it are just going to do it again.
March 14th, 2009 at 12:25 pm
amanda uright and u kno wat i agree ps.write back
March 17th, 2009 at 12:03 pm
Heyyy to everyone on this site who has been bullied im sooooooo sorry its terrible and just cruel. I feel your pain. Thanks so much for staying strong
LUVVVERS Emmzz
March 17th, 2009 at 12:04 pm
THIS IS NOT COOL!!!! I FEEL THE SAME WAY AS EMILY AHAHH IM SITTEN RIIGHT NEXT TO HER
LOVE,
SCOOTER:)
March 18th, 2009 at 11:54 am
I think this isn’t right!! I agree with Emily, lolz shes in my class xD
But still its wrong.
March 18th, 2009 at 3:42 pm
Why is this gotten so out of hand.. By the way, Bruce.. That was’nt fair of you to say that. Many kids stand up to cyberbullying the kids who do it are kids who ahve nothing better to do. Kids SHOULD be able to do important things, If people want to bully others let them to it.. But it is the persons responsibility to tell somone .. or take things into their own hands
March 20th, 2009 at 12:12 pm
Bruce.. some kids are good kids, so please do not Talk so much crap about us! some of us are actually.. good kids like some of my friends and I!!!!! And cyber bullying is a waste of time and bad most of us no… its usally the kids who go through horrible things that do this so please stop callin kids names and useless thats what is going to push us to breaking point. Making us feel “worth less” just stop and deal with your problems.
April 8th, 2009 at 4:43 am
hi everyone, just wanted to say that i feel your pain…it really is not easy to get over being bullied, even if it is someone that you don’t know; i always thought that it would go away once you grow up but it doesn’t, i was bullied and embarraced by a co-worker just a year back.
April 8th, 2009 at 4:20 pm
wait. kids are not hte only one’s that are cyber bullying, yet adults are apart of this too. so don’t take it out on kids because i am a kid and i use technology but not to bully others.
April 11th, 2009 at 7:14 am
There Was A Boy whos name was Ryan Halligan, I went to his school and heard a Ryan Halligan Speech. He was bullied by his friends and in 2003 he killled himself
April 16th, 2009 at 10:29 am
Wow. thats some harsh stuff. As a soldier, I can’t stand ppl that do that. The ones that do come from a history of family abuse both verbal and physical. GOD BLESS.
PVT ADAM OUELLETTE
TEXAS ARMY NATIONAL GUARD
April 17th, 2009 at 5:42 pm
i was cyberbullied. its worse to me than in life. people stay stuff they would never sayy in real life. and worse my best friend was the 1 who hurt me!she said hurtful things like wath youe back. teachers dont see everything. then she sent me threatning texts saying thinks like “im going to kill you.” it was so scary. heres advice
TELL A PARENT!!!
thats what i did and my mom kalled her mom and it was all better (:
April 30th, 2009 at 7:20 pm
seriously its both kids and adults, but seriously my friend had a fake picture and people fall for it like they really want to get harassed or sumting
May 7th, 2009 at 9:37 am
Ok, so everything that is being said on here is a form of cyber bullying and look at this website, it’s trying to prevent adults and children from doing exactly what you guys are doing. Bruce, grow up, learn how to use your proper grammar and then come back and say something. People need to realize that kids and adults die because of this kind of stuff. I was cyber bullied on countless occasions but I am perfectly fine now! It’s a great thing to have that experience once in your life but pushing it past that really changes things.
May 7th, 2009 at 10:01 pm
I think the topic of bullying is an interesting one. This my perspective on the issue, and I’m only 19, so High school is still fresh in my mind.
Far from being someone who condones bullying, in any form, it must also, however, be noted that the response often given by a victim of bullying often considerably provokes the agitator to continue with their behaviour. In all honesty, who really cares if someone makes a fake myspace or says these terrible, nasty things to you? I don’t. And for those people who are going to start with the “You obviously haven’t been bullied” spiel, I assure you, that growing up gay in a small town in country Victoria, and being completely open about it, I have. For a while. Now, not so much, in fact, by ignoring all forms of bullying, which was not only because I was gay, but also very good at schoolwork, talented musically, and well liked by most people, I have effectively stopped any and all of it. That and a fiery temper when neccessary to ensure that people know I don’t take shit from anyone.
If these kids just ignored it, and had some form of resilience, they would not worry about so called “cyber-bullying.” I mean, obviously, if it’s physical assault or verbal abuse then something needs to be done, but please, if i took it to heart everytime someone put it out there that I had slept with a guy I hadn’t or even if I had, I would have killed myself a million times over. The answer to this is very simple. Yes, its wrong. But yes, get over it. Toughen up, grow some balls, and deal. That’s what the rest of us do.
I do have empathy for these kids, but they themselves can change their situation. Get some confidence. NOTHING CAN GET YOU DOWN UNLESS YOU LET IT!. Tell yourself everyday that the biggest motivation in life is the opportunity to better YOURSELF and see how you feel. Sometimes, a healthy amount of arrogance is exactly that, healthy. Just using myself for example, I am very open to constructive criticism in my life, being a vocalist, it happens alot. Criticism for the sake of putting my down, however, simply bounces of me. People often ask me why I never seem to be insulted. Um, hello, I don’t let myself be insulted. If someone attempts to insult me, they are the one with problem. Why can’t most teenagers see how simple this is? You take things to heart, they eat away at you and destroy your sense of self-worth.
No-one can make you feel worthless, except yourself. And no matter what situation you are in, you CAN ALWAYS change it. Anything less is an excuse.
That’s all I have to say.
B-rad out.
May 18th, 2009 at 10:30 am
I am in middle school and I am in an anti-bullying program. I have learned thta the some of the things that students are doing to eachother are horrible. This program has HIGHLY reduced the verbal, physical, and cyber bullyig in our school. I myself have two friends that have been cyber bullied and it is a horrible experience to have to go go through. I know this just from watching the stress they were going through.
May 20th, 2009 at 11:44 am
This goes out to all those how have been cyder bullied or even cyder bullied other people. you should feel sorry i know that pain hurt i even go throw it be gay And the Pres. So if you see someone geting bullied stop and save a life and for those how do the bulling you will get yours.
your President of the United Kid states
President Lovelace
May 21st, 2009 at 11:25 am
I think this is an out rage! i have been cyber bullyed before it hurts .My friend has a friend that her couins sisters friend said she got cyber bullyed by her best friends mom
May 23rd, 2009 at 8:30 pm
This is a stupid concept and people should be sentenced to jail for it
Also to morgan freeman, it is defantly not a ‘LOL’ concept
To all those people who are being cyberbullied, just dont think about it because it will take hold of you!!!!!!!!!!!
Thats all i have to say for this
peace out!!!!!!!
May 26th, 2009 at 9:16 am
I THINK THAT IS NOT NICE CUZ I BEEN TRUE IT AND PPL FEEL BAD BECAUSE THEY SAYING THINGS THAT ITS NOT TRUE ABOUT PPL
May 26th, 2009 at 9:21 am
I think Cyber Bullying affects a lot of people.
I have been there once,but like I dint pay no mind to it!
It was on myspace
May 26th, 2009 at 9:28 am
i think that Cyber Bullyinq is bad becauase people like putinq
thinqs about other people that is nOt truth…
Like this one girl name *******. that ***** is crazy putinq people shit out there!
is really bad cause pplz get angry nd they can really hurt that person..
Cyber bullyinq is BAD nd SToP.. MoTHER’S *******
May 27th, 2009 at 10:05 am
Me and my ex just went through a sucky break up and him and his friends are always harrassing me. At first it was just to my face and in person and when it quit getting to me, they stepped it up a notch. Last week, they sent a text message to everyone in town saying i have an STD, which i DON’T. Most people got that, even people who graduated last year. Then, yesterday, they sent out a text message saying an extremely crude thing about me, and that one got out to the school. Everyone in school got the text message and today, i hear whispers and see people watching me. I have never done or said anything to them that could provoke this. I have confronted my ex and his friends and they all deny it. I also went to the principals and they are trying to find out who started it. Cyberbullying sucks, and it will forever be with me. Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt you? that’s a bunch of bull. Sticks and stones make cutsand bruises, but those eventually heal. Words are forever and i will never forget what they said to and about me. Words never go away.
May 28th, 2009 at 10:07 am
Hi i feel so sad for all these cases i dont no y they happen in the first place i swear this needs to STOP!! this is way out of hand dont u ppl feel sad for everyone like god!
uuhhmmm… i believe that everyone gets bullied maybe not cyber..but bulllied definately… andd those people who do stuff to themselves after they get bullied like KILL THEMSELVS.. :O are out of their minds
you dont kill ureself!!
makes it even a more hated thing
PEOPLEE.. U HAV TO STAND UP - UHMM…KILLING URESELF GIIVES PAIN TO U ANDD OTHERSS SO IF U HATE URESELF ATLEAST THINK BOUT THE PPEOPLE THT LOVE U MOST
i feel veryy angry when i hear someone kills themselves over bullying
SO STOP ALL THIS NONSENSE !!!… JUS STOP IT LIKE GODD….
ITS ALL NONSENSE IF U KILL URSELF
STOP IT!!!!!
STOP THE CYBER BULLYING!!!….
AND I MEAN IT!
May 28th, 2009 at 10:09 am
BTW.. these are 2 different peoples thoughts
June 15th, 2009 at 10:31 pm
to howm it may concern
i am shionna young and i am a person who has been cyberbullied before and just to all of the girls out there
DO NOT i repeatDO NOT trust anyone you meat on the train i met some one
but it ended up that i was being stalked all the way home and then i got txts from that person then i got calls from him saying that the world would be a better place without me
and after that had happend i had been depresed and started cutting myself
but please please donot trust anyone you meat on the bus or train because it has aged me terriobly
please listen to my worning
love yu all love from shionna young ilyxx
to all the peeps feeling my pain
June 18th, 2009 at 6:02 am
Cyberbullying is a deep subject, it’s not fully understood and the effects are still being studied.
I have been cyberbullied before. Please do not throw pity upon me, because words on the Internet mean less than nothing to me. When I was in school, not so long ago, I was tormented because of my small size, my preference to reading than to gossip, and spent my lunchtimes in the library. I would search my email inbox and find a massive chain mail email sent around telling about all my bad qualities. If you read the mail, you could believe that I was a homosexual, raped my mother, stole from shops, and took drugs and alcohol regularly. And what did I do? Did I steadily become depressed, and question the worth of my life? No. I laughed. Disbelieve me if you wish. The rumours were hilarious, and I told the original message senders such. I told them that they forgot to put their references down. Naturally I was sworn at, cursed, and several new messages were sent. Eventually I simply got a friend to slip an anonymous note to the principal and that was the end of it.
One of the main reasons kids get so depressed about cyberbullying is because they believe it, and they think other people believe it too. They don’t seem to understand that the world does not hate them, and that bullies would not dare to lay a finger on them. A few people in the world think it’s funny to torment a fellow peer to the point where they break down, but none are more horrified than these people when things turn suicidal. There is so much spam and junk going on in email that it’s impossible to know what’s real and what’s not.
I am not dismissing the damage cyberbullying does. But nobody is ever truly alone. Even if they don’t have the benefiet of caring humans, it’s easy to talk to a dog or a cat, or even the ducks and swans when they eat your bread and quack gratefully. Your school usually would have a chaplain or something of the kind, and if not, there are your parents, your teachers, your friends, your principal, your family. There are counselling services available. And there’s nothing to stop you from sending a message round contridacting the hate mail. Do not be afraid your parents will confiscate the computer or phone; they would know it never helps.
June 18th, 2009 at 8:57 am
i know how everbody fells
June 28th, 2009 at 6:18 pm
where are doing a speech on cyber bullying
and these things make us very emotional inside.
sometimes these things are really serious we understand
how people go through these things everyday in there life.
And sometimes cant resists these things from happening.
July 1st, 2009 at 10:36 pm
we’re doing a comic on cyber bullying, to try and stop it.
its terrible that most people who just want to have fun will stoop so low. sometimes, its just for revenge. although we’re just kids, we do have an insight to many things adults have not seen yet, or maybe have before when they are young. i myself have not been cyber bullied yet, and i do not wish to be. i just hope that for all those being cyber bullies, to think twice before making their decision. one mistake and you’re pretty much doomed. think about those you’ve bullied before, its terrible to live with that type of conscience. the fear and sadness of your prey. you’ll ruin those who have had a happy life, its not right to vent your anger this way.
for those who have been bullied, forget about the whole nightmare and start again. consult your situation with someone you can trust. don’t take them to heart, report them. those people really need to have a taste of their own meds. you are much stronger than the others.
Good luck.
August 5th, 2009 at 4:51 pm
hey guys!! I hate cyber bullying and cyber bullies. Whenever I get bullied and I dont want to tell anyone, I pretend that the people talking to me are the biggest jerks and have recently escaped the mental hospital. lolz. Thats my way of dealing with bullies who have no life of their own. I am a better person then them and they are just wasting my time. Its not like anything they say is true anyway, they are just jealous of you. So whenever they try to bully me, my confident in myself grows cause I think they are jealous about something I have that they can never have.
Don’t worry about a thing guys!! We are way better then them!!
August 16th, 2009 at 2:08 pm
I read all the stories and I am saddened to hear how cyberbullying can lead to suicide especially with teens. I personally think that teens must learn how to protect themselves against threats. We need to be strong and resistant. I am a teen writer at RadicalParenting.com which is a parenting blog from the kid’s perspective there are 60 teen and tween writers run by teen author, Vanessa Van Petten. We just posted a video of cyberbullying here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lehDOuhpYRE
and would love for you to check it out and tell us what you think or repost if you like it,
Cheers, thanks for checking it out!
Gokce and the Teen Team
http://radicalparenting.com
August 24th, 2009 at 11:01 pm
What i think is that we’re all immature, adults and children alike. Bruce, i’m 13 and i’m pretty smart. We’ve all been kids once, i didn’t grow up with a very good environment but that does not mean that i grew up like the children around me. I’m called studious and a book worm but i can still say that i’m immature. Boys in my school have rated my group of friends, actually they were our guy friends. And yes it was bad but you all have to understand that this cannot let you down. They apologized, some told us what they graded us and now it’s done. Because you know what, we all cyberbully or just plain bully. When you go around and then you see someone and then call them fat, you may not say it out loud but that is still a form of bullying. These people were wrong to do these, and yes they are immature but i will never understand why death or anything just as bad is the answer. We stood up for ourselves, we forgave, we did the same. We all, even you Bruce, have cyberbullied or bullied. And you know what, you were a kid once and i bet that you have a personal grudge to hate what you once were. So really, take it to people that actually give a damn okay?
August 27th, 2009 at 11:07 am
sarchon you’re a very brave person, i admire how you have handled your situation.
i’ve been cyberbullied and threatened and these sick people are trying to justify what they did by telling people thru their blogs that it was my fault and i deserve to be defamed online just because i fought back, they kept texting me, calling me names and all and expect that i will not fight back? For them, when they harass you, you should not fight back or else they will harass you online and embarass you to more people and they would call it EXPOSE.
i do hope that there will be stricter laws regarding cyber bullying! These people are cowards, im sure if they know they will really go to jail for defaming people online, they won’t be as vulgar. i know that we have freedom of speech but lets practice that responsibly. Ruining peoples reputations and lives can never be justified!
September 14th, 2009 at 1:54 pm
ok, so i am a kid~ and maybe you will just say.. ahhhh another one of those cyber bullying kids. but we’re not. the media just exaggerates all this so much, infact, no-one personal that i know of has ever been bullied. in general. It just shows how people like bruce, look down on kids and like to think of them as ‘gangs in hoodies’ to fit there stereotypical view on them. and btw, i don’ do this for fun. it was my ICT hw.
September 15th, 2009 at 6:40 am
Cyber Bulling should not be allowed we shall do something about that
September 15th, 2009 at 6:45 am
STOP THAT CYBER BULLING!
STOP!
KIDS ASHALL NOT BULLY OTHER KIDS OR PEOPLE THEY DONT
THAT IS SO RUDE
September 16th, 2009 at 11:57 am
I personally think if you dont want someone to stalk you on the internet, and if you dont want someone to hurt you. then dont give out information that you know will help them.
September 18th, 2009 at 8:56 am
i am suprised how many poeple die by cyber bulling. i thought homicides killd mor poeple
September 22nd, 2009 at 6:16 am
it wrong
October 6th, 2009 at 10:06 pm
i think its stupid its neva happened 2 me but ye its stupid 2 do tht who eva does that has no life.
October 6th, 2009 at 10:08 pm
Whoever cyber bullies has no life . people who has been bullied i’m so sorry i feel your pain.
October 9th, 2009 at 11:37 am
i was bullyed by a prisoner when i was 13 years old. i am now 15 and it is still goingon. i have told the police and they said they will sort it out. i want my life to be the same as it was before but that will never happen so hay how, chin up and look proud of being a tuff girl and go along with it.
October 9th, 2009 at 11:40 am
i had some one sending me texted on my phone and i did not know who it was. my mum did not let me see it so i don’t know what it said. i really wanna stop cyber bullying but that would be hard.
October 12th, 2009 at 9:41 am
well to start things off i just wanna say that any type of bullying shouln’t be tolerated. To be honest there should be some sort of sentence for jail for bullying. And me being only 18 i am against bullying, i’m very protective of my friends and when someone is picking on them i throw down and get them to stop what their doing. i say ,” Hey you stop that you poop nipple twister.” and they stop. You should try saying that cuz its funny. And you won’t be in the shadow of death anymore. HOOOO RAAWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
October 19th, 2009 at 7:46 pm
i feel very emotional from all these stories but if u were bullied dont pay attention to them just ignore them if they continue tell somebody u really trust . dont harm urself just cuz somebody wrote “the world is better without u” just ignore them and be like ok i dont give a crap if it is or isnt.
October 22nd, 2009 at 11:10 am
that is very sad that the 13 year old girl had committed suicde after was found out the truth about what the people had done to her. and that people should not take pictures of girls that would not pick up her dogs poop i am a 16 year old girl and i understand what gone on with the two girls
November 9th, 2009 at 9:54 am
I read all the stories and I am saddened to hear how cyberbullying can lead to suicide especially with teens. I personally think that teens must learn how to protect themselves against threats. We need to be strong and resistant. I am a teen myself who has never been cyberbullied but i will take this as a way to prevent cyberbulling.
November 11th, 2009 at 11:31 am
im currently being cyber bullied. as we speak. it hurts all around. no one is on my side. highschool sucks.
December 6th, 2009 at 1:44 pm
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December 8th, 2009 at 2:07 pm
cyber bullies nedd to get a life because nobody should care that much about making some one feel bad !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
December 13th, 2009 at 4:12 pm
I’m 13 and very lucky that I’ve never experienced cyber bulling or even seen it happening around my school. Though some kids like to make fun of people to boost their own self-confidence, most kids aren’t like that. They’re just afraid to stand up for people in fear that they’re going to get treated badly too. The other problem is that cyber bullying, unlike bullying, is something that is very secretive and most people don’t even know it’s going on, including teachers. When kids get cyber-bullied they start to turn against people and their parents, because they think they can deal with it themselves but they can’t. TELL AN ADULT AS SOON AS POSSIBLE and hopefully it won’t get too serious OR ignore any text messages or facebook messages unless they are extremely serious.
December 17th, 2009 at 12:40 pm
i feel bad for those people. Cyberbullies have no right to leave people in the dust. They shud as the song says “let it be”
December 17th, 2009 at 12:43 pm
great comment
December 17th, 2009 at 12:44 pm
it needs to stop NOW
December 17th, 2009 at 12:45 pm
I’m 13 and very lucky that I’ve never experienced cyber bulling or even seen it happening around my school. Though some kids like to make fun of people to boost their own self-confidence, most kids aren’t like that. They’re just afraid to stand up for people in fear that they’re going to get treated badly too. The other problem is that cyber bullying, unlike bullying, is something that is very secretive and most people don’t even know it’s going on, including teachers. When kids get cyber-bullied they start to turn against people and their parents, because they think they can deal with it themselves but they can’t. TELL AN ADULT AS SOON AS POSSIBLE and hopefully it won’t get too serious OR ignore any text messages or facebook messages unless they are extremely serious.
December 19th, 2009 at 3:31 pm
bullying is a problem that no one should do. everyone know’s it wrong. you know its wrong. but you dont care. its an everyday problem for everyone. whether its talking about a friend behind there back to saying it to there face. you need to wake up and realize the solution to bullying is to just walk away. dont keep it going. dont let them walk all over you. the solution is to tell and adult and teacher or gaurdian immediatley. i was bullied. cyber bullied. by someone im not going to say. they called me names and made fun of me. but if you ignore them and dont talk back you will most likley be a sucessful person and they will turn out to be a ignorant jealous person. just walk away. i had too
January 6th, 2010 at 5:09 pm
i know how every1 fells bout the bullying i had a friend who waz bulled b4 and i didnt know wat 2 do 2 help him wit it and he just let every1 do it 2 him and now he wont tlk 2 any1 now not even me so im sayin
STOP THE BULLING NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
January 7th, 2010 at 12:34 pm
yah, bullies need to get a life. they just go around making people feel bad
January 7th, 2010 at 12:38 pm
why do people have to be so mean. just now i was pushed down on the sidewalk. i’m glad i don’t have a cell phone to be teased with
January 19th, 2010 at 7:15 am
i really dont understand why children and adults alike cyber bully or any kind of bullying its not right and causes alot of problems for people that are the victims…killing yourself is not the answer and it just brings pain to anyone around you. Its really uspesting and annoying that people who cyberbully really have no life and what are they benefiting from bulliying someone?? a award for takeing someones life?? you gotta have serious issues if your cyberbullying someone..its a waist of damn time and all your doing is causing this world to become worse than it already is. i’ve been cyberbullyed before, just because some girl was jealous of my boyfriend.she kept txting me horrible things and insttead of doing something i just ignored everything and she stopped. this might not happen to you but if it does imediatly tell an adult because it could save your life..
February 2nd, 2010 at 9:13 am
I was also cyber bullied by a girl that had a serious grudge against me and my boyfriend at the time. The minute i started reading the message i was horrified what she said. She had even gone under a false account because i had already blocked her on Facebook. I knew it was her because of how she mentioned my boyfriend and how she talked. The message damaged my confidence and i never could let it go. When i reported it to my principal he said there was “nothing he could do” because it was outside of school. Schools NEED to start interveining with internet abuse so it can be STOPPED! Before this girl was sent to another school i has to deal with more of her slurs and the dread of her saying something else. If we don’t start cyber bullying soon…who will?
February 2nd, 2010 at 6:50 pm
THiS iS SOOO SADD WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO THE KiD ACROSS THE STREET THAT TOOK YOUR LUNCH AND PiCKED ON YOU A LiTTLE FOR REAL THOUGH? BUT NOW THAT KiD HAS A MYSPACE,AiM,FACEBOOK,AND ANYTHiNG ELSE
I REMEMBERED WHEN THIS GiRL STARTED TO SAY HOW ME AND MY FRiEND RUiNED HER LiFE OR SOMETHING AND WE WERE SO CONUSED BECAUSE ALL OFF A SUDDEN SHE JUST STARTED TO SAY THAT SHE DIDNT LIKE US AND STUFF THEN SHE STARTED YELLING AT US AND CURSING AT US WHEN WE ASKED WHY WAS SHE DOING THIS STUF TO US WE WERE LIKE HER ONLY FRIENDS THAT DIDNT TALK BEHIND HER BACK AND WE ALWAYS STAYED LIKE THAT SHE STARTED TO SAY SHE WAS A VICTEM AND THAT WE RUINED EVERYTHING ABOUT HER BUT THE TRUTH IS WE NEVER REALLY DID ANYTHING
THE POINT IS THAT SOMETIMES THE TRUE VICTIMS ARE NOT THE ONES WHO CRY BLOODY MURDER BUT THAT DOESNT EARASE ALL OF HE STUFF THATS HAPPENED ABOUT CYBER-BULLYING OR BULLYING IN GENERAL
February 10th, 2010 at 12:14 pm
If someone is bullying you, you should tell someone about it. Your friends, a trusted teacher or older adult that you may be friends with. If its in school, file harassment or battery against them.. I’ve done that already.. The girl ended up moving out of our school after we both got suspended. If it’s over the internet block the person, or cancel your account. People who are out there bullying are stupid. They only do it to make themselves feel better. If they feel so bad about themselves that they have to bully others they should go see a shrink. Bullies are f’in stupid and they need to STOP!! let me tell ya, stupid people like that piss me off.
February 18th, 2010 at 10:25 am
That’s True, and another thing is that some kids, even if they’re your friends or not sometimes Kids or even adults need to stand up for one another. Yea i do my fair share of bulling or well picking on but i only do that with my friends and i only go to a certain extent. But I’ve never cyber bullied anyone and i probably wouldn’t ever do it ether. But my point hear is that people should think before they act.
February 19th, 2010 at 9:58 pm
this is horrible… ppl r committing suicide cuzz ppl r talking about them in a mean way… it seems were not trying doing anything about it… ppl can only press charges?! woowww how bout suing, going 2 jail?!
February 26th, 2010 at 1:23 pm
while I understand that children are supossed to be these malleable balls of clay to you guys, please understand that we are all cabable of choosing what we feel, we all understand that is always help put there.
I am not trying to relieve bullies of thier responsibilities, what they did was wrong, and they deserve to be punished in some sort of way. But it is the fault of the parents for not noticing the changes in thier child, it is also the fault of the bullier’s parents for not noticing what a terror thier child is.
I myself am 15 and have been cyber bullied repeatedly for being different, I am strange, but I do not see that as a scar of ostracization, i saw it a a badge of pride. I was different enough to be noticed, whether hatred or not, and that is something we need to teach our children!! If I had faleen to my families pressure of being normal and materialistic I would never have survived as long as I have now. Parents teach your children not to listen to other kids. teach them not to care so much about thier damn clothes and make-up please. If we are all different noone cane be treated that way.
It’s all in the strength of will, I will myself to go on, so other freaks like me can learn to as well, to those families who’ve lost children to bullies I am very sorry… but to all parents STOP TEACHING YOUR KIDS TO FOLLOW THE CROWD!!!!!!! As I said before, I will say again, if there is no path to follow, there no way to steer off course.
March 2nd, 2010 at 2:23 pm
I am currently being cyberbullyed and it is no laughing matter!! I am in eighth grade and have to deal with this and my dad being in the military, deployed no less! My BEST FRIEND has been cyberbullying me for a month now and it just won’t go away! All you people say just tell a teacher, but that made it worse. She rebeled back by tellig my friends that I don’t know how to deal and take care of my own conflicts, and then they turned against me for her!! She sends me text messages saying that I don’t have any friends and no one likes me because I am a teachers pet. She will type a message on her school laptop and turn her computer to one of her friends and then they will look at me and laugh. What, do they think I am a stupid idiot, I know they are talking about me. It hurts and we need to stop it NOW!! I have had thoughts of suicide, but God has helped me overcome those thoughts. I have not wanted to go to school though! I refuse sometimes to get up out of bed and go to school, but my mom drags me out and I do go to school. These memories will torture me for the rest of my life and they will NEVER go away!!! I am scarred for life because of being cyber-bullyed!!! help stop it NOW!! Together we stop it. and for you who just don’t care, GOD HELP YOU!!!!!
March 5th, 2010 at 11:17 am
hi, i think cyber bulling is a mess!!!
March 9th, 2010 at 3:38 pm
I was si terrifed when my aunt was cyberbulllied by so man who was i believe 13 years old thatn her. it was terrifing
March 10th, 2010 at 1:41 am
all cyber - bullies are cowards … i myself have never been cyber - bullied, but i have heard of all of these peoples stories and i feel sorry for them.
March 14th, 2010 at 7:09 pm
I’ve been a victim of bullying all of my life, I’ve tried to put an end to my life a few times now because of it, within the past couple of years, I’ve become open about who I really am, allot of people like to harass me about it, they like to harass me because I am legally blind, because I am poor, because of a lot of reasons, and it’s usually not just 1 person doing it at a time, usually it’s a bunch of people posting my picture somewhere and laughing it up, I do believe that I have developed an unhealthy view on life because of what people have done to me, but I can’t help but feel that way
It seems to be a never ending nightmare, it’s either pretend to be someone I’m not or be forced to be harassed.
March 23rd, 2010 at 1:18 pm
I don’t think its fair atall to those kids who get bullyed and don’t ever say anthing…SPEAK UP!
March 24th, 2010 at 3:32 pm
i believe that people who bully are really insucure about them selves and to get a life. just read the sad story of Megan Meier the teen who killed her self because of it at http://www.meganmeierfoundation.org/story/ because this is a prime example of what people are doing these days
March 25th, 2010 at 12:53 pm
I bullied someone who is already suffering from depression. There’s no excuse to what I did. And I am sorry for what I did.
March 26th, 2010 at 11:13 am
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March 28th, 2010 at 4:20 pm
Oh my gosh. My friend keeps getting these random text messages from this random person saying that she likes someone. And they disguised their number to look like it came from the police. I feel really scared for her. I hope it’s not some stalker. Ahh!! Stupid people who do this stupid stuff
March 30th, 2010 at 12:55 am
&& to soccerghurl808, why would yu call her your best friend if she is doing such things? you dont need a friend like that. now, i am one to heavily avoid confrontation at all costs, but if it gets in the way of your studies, and your social life, and your teachers dont help you at all, block her webpage from being able to torment you, and the next time she/he points at you and laughs??? go up to her, tell her to grow up, and punch her/him in the face….im not approving any type of violence, but if something gets you that bothered in life, where its hard to get up out of bed in the morning because you dont want to deal with it, then use physical force to get your point across….
March 31st, 2010 at 12:33 pm
Listen people it is not a matter of hurting someone is it a matter of abuse. This type of problem I feel is caused by people that are hurt themselves, they do for an ego boost basically I have been bullied by a person who I knew but not well. It was an ex boyfriend of a friend and I was giving advice to win her back but I guess he didn’t like some of it so he started harassing me. I have to admit it hurt but I wouldn’t kill myself over it! The people who kill themselves are very Ill and need help, like take Worth for example you didn’t kill yourself did you? No. And by the way I strongly agree with MelseyKiller you make a lot of sense. Because believe or not I’m 14 and no where near done living my life!! So get help if you’ve been Cyber Bullied!! It’s worth it!!
April 6th, 2010 at 12:59 pm
In my opinion as a 14yr old i’m required to research on this cause and Cyberbullying is absolutely unexcusable! Cyberbullying is a waste of Technology. People get too warped and it becomes competition like who has the most comments or how many friends someone has. Computers were created to be able to give information and i don’t think that cyberbullying is such a good thing. I read the stories and based on my opinion people go too far on jokes or they just love hurting people. Everyone has feelings and everyone has flaws. Thats what makes us human. But being cruel like that is not a matter to be laughed at. I had some one break into my house egg my room and splatter paint all over my furniture. i was devastated and it turned out to my Ex-friend and so i think that there should be limitations on the computer to stop these matters. It could have some important impact on the cause.
April 7th, 2010 at 10:12 pm
This is all so stupid I don’t even have the words to discribe how Angry I am right now
April 10th, 2010 at 2:32 pm
that is so true! i am only 13 and i’m a victum of cyber bullying… i had a boyfriend who was not nice, and i also had a bully at my school. they thought it would be funny for them to go out and then use facebook, text, etc. to get people to #1: hate me and #2: try to stress me out. its really a terrible thing, and its sad that it not only happens to me, but that other people have to go through this…
April 13th, 2010 at 6:25 pm
Cyber bullying is a major problem everywhere and we need to help stop it. If it continues then people will continue to commit suicide and personally suicide is very sad, especially for the people who love the ones who hang themselves or commit suicide. If we stand up to the bullies together and get parents ivoled and tell them whats going on, we can as a team stop the bullies from bullying people using cyber, sexual, mental/verbal, physical or social bullying. The faster we stop this the better our communities and countries will be.
from, robin
April 14th, 2010 at 9:51 am
I was cyberbullied b4. I descied to change my hair style and a group of girl accued me of being “emo” they haced my youtube account and tart posting comments like “I’m emo jut look at my wrists!” I cried, and now everyone is accuseing me of being emo.
I’m doing a report for my reading class, and i have to type a paper, bucause i don’t want this to happen to anybody els. Can I get any help?
April 14th, 2010 at 11:23 am
I have truthfully never been bullied online, but when I used to be in like 2/4 (?) grade I was bullied alot for being overweight. Luckily I had made friends with a black boy, whose name was like Domonique, and he was bullied to, and we stood up for eachother. Right now I am 14. And I would never cyberbully or bully anyone at all!
April 18th, 2010 at 7:20 pm
I’m a teenager just like any teenager, but I don’t understand how some of these people can be so bored or vengeful to the point of doing these kinds of things. I just don’t understand, but I guess the only thing that can be said is that humans can be cruel.
April 19th, 2010 at 6:22 pm
I’ve cyber bullied, I honestly feel horrible about it especially because I did it to my friend who did nothing to me. I wish I could take everything I said back but I can’t now, I’ve really learned from my mistake. But I was with two other people (who I no longer call friends) who did most of the work but just the fact that I was a part of their name calling & harassing makes me disgusted with myself. I was in a bad time in my life hanging out with the wrong people but now I changed & now dealing with the consequences.
April 21st, 2010 at 10:08 am
i am doing a paper on cyberbulling and i have never seen so much evilness
April 27th, 2010 at 6:54 am
I Have been cyber bullied b4 and its not fun and it really makes you feel like you want to die and leave the country or something! my friends helped me out with this and i feel better now!
April 27th, 2010 at 10:55 am
I HATE BULLYING
April 28th, 2010 at 11:07 am
I THIN CYBER BULLYING IS KIND OF A RIDICULOUS SUBJECT BECAUSE I CAN STICK UP FOR MY OWN SELF. IM NOT GOING TO COMMIT SUICIDE OVER SOME PETTY “BULLYING” I THINK IF YOU REALLY ARE SCARED THEN GET HELP
April 28th, 2010 at 11:22 am
i was cyber bullyed i was scared of thye pepo
April 28th, 2010 at 4:01 pm
Bullying will always happen it will evolve along with technology,most of the victims have done nothing about it.I am a member of facebook and many forums,I have had rude pm’s sent to me but i just report them to a system administrator(admin) and their accounts are either suspended for 4-6 weeks or deleted.Most admin are very willing to help.If you are being bullied report it to a moderator or a admin.
I rest my case.Also i am a teenager my self and I think that bulling cant be stopped but you can stop yourself from being bullied.
April 29th, 2010 at 1:26 pm
am sorry u guys. i guess there have been sometimes were some girl bigger then me would try to bull me but all you really got to do is stand up for your self be brave & dont let nobody tell you what to do. I got some true friend that got my back n i got theres.
May 2nd, 2010 at 1:12 pm
this is a really complicated topic! im doin a repprt on it and i mean i think that every cyber bully and regular bully should receive some kind of punishment for ther doing but if you really think about it they have a right of freedom of speech. so technically they can say whatever they want. but wen it leads to this kind of thing you really have to consider trying to punish these lifeless bullies some kind of way because they are taking the lives of innocent human beings! so this problem needs to be sloved quickly and effectively! in other words in needs to be stopped NOW!
May 3rd, 2010 at 9:47 am
we need to stop cyberbullying some kids or teens try to kill them self because people cyber bully them on the cat rooms so if u cyber bully stop and go get yourself a life. you would not like it if somebody did to you so do not say anything bad about anyone and if anyone tries to bully me on chat rooms i would not care because i now it not true about me so i fell bad for anyone who would do that to me because i would not care but if u keep doing i will tell an adult and u will be in jell so just back of of my life cyberbullyers
May 3rd, 2010 at 5:40 pm
Cyberbullying really sucks, i’m doing a social issue project on it and all these storys sound really sad.
May 4th, 2010 at 6:24 am
this is just totally wrong why would someone do this horrible stuff to other people im sure some maybe deserve it but wat if they did nothing wrong maybe we should put crimanal juustice toward those who bully oh and bruce your just rude
May 5th, 2010 at 10:52 am
I’ve cyber bullied, I honestly feel horrible about it especially because I did it to my friend who did nothing to me. I wish I could take everything I said back but I can’t now, I’ve really learned from my mistake. But I was with two other people (who I no longer call friends) who did most of the work but just the fact that I was a part of their name calling & harassing makes me disgusted with myself. I was in a bad time in my life hanging out with the wrong people but now I changed & now dealing with the consequ
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May 5th, 2010 at 10:55 am
This is all so stupid I don’t even have the words to discribe how Angry I am right now
iam etaing u all
May 5th, 2010 at 11:20 am
Okay , so honestly STOP this. Really? are you gonnna ‘ like get all scared of people? STAND up for yourself you have the right tooo. It’s stupid and if it gets worse tell somebody. Good lukc guys <3
May 6th, 2010 at 8:33 am
This is pure cruelt. This is not fair for the little children and teens also maybe adults. i am trying to put a stop to this in my college. I have almost reached my goal by stopping this cruel and very unessary punishment people have to go through every day and myself i have to put through this.
Love,
A Fighter
May 6th, 2010 at 4:28 pm
Im a senior in high school, one of my good friends commited sucide because some girls cyber bullyied her so much and put photos of her on their accounts and made fun of them. It was so sad to see her go because of another person. It can affect people so much when they are cyber bullied you dont know what they are going through so dont put them through more. Im doing a reasearch project for english right now and it is so sad to see all this happening so i would hope you all know that we all have challenges and should not pick on others online you never know what the outcome could trun out to be.
-steph
May 7th, 2010 at 11:16 am
i hope everyone is doing. especially my friend JJ , frank , ilona , and everybody else thats being cyber bullied. its really like not even cool to do. Stop it already. like all your doing by it is hurrting yourself. people kill themselves because of it & its all beacasue of the people or person that cyber bullied them. if you have nothing good to say DONT say it at all. AT LEAST have SOMMEEE respect for one anotther. were not like little kids anymore. cmon guys . .
good luck again <3
May 7th, 2010 at 11:18 am
cyber bullying is so dumb, ok so this person tries to scare me by talking smack to me on facebook and its PATHETIC ! like then he calls me trying to get this girl to fight to me like reeally GET a life. its so rude.
May 7th, 2010 at 11:24 am
people THOUGHT were my friends back stabbbed me , but thats life (: and people RALLY need to get one.
May 7th, 2010 at 11:27 am
I hate people because i get bulllied everyday and its tortchure
May 8th, 2010 at 1:50 pm
I have had people who made fun of me, just because I have changed my hair colors, I use to come home all bloody, and cut up, from getting into fights and I’ve cut myself before.
Now that I have matured and learn to say “no” to people, and ignore people who don’t like me, I am just like any other teenager. I went to rehab for cutting and attempting suicide; but Now I finally realize that life is too precious to let anything happen to me. I’m 14 years old, and I stand up to the people who are innocent victiums in situations like Cyberbullying, and even bullying. Don’t be afraid to say what you want, b/c God didn’t make YOU to waste your life on these people you probably won’t see in your life when you get out of highschool. That’s what my friends tell me, people might dislike you, and you have a lot of people who do like you, the world isn’t perfect. Just be yourself, don’t change just because people say you are “ugly” or “Fat” or “Weird” if everyone was just normal, this world wouldn’t be fun.
May 17th, 2010 at 2:13 pm
i am ashamed to have been a cyber bully. i have tormented this person to the point where she was ready to kill herself as soon as i realized she was taking it that harshly i stopped. the whole thing started with this joke she said to me that really pissed me off. it had to do with me being muslim and since muslims are already hated cuz of the terrorists. so since i knew her password for pretty much everything she had(face book, msn, etc) i signed into all her accounts and changed the passwords. when she recovered her password i started harrassing her verbally one day her mother was on the computer and i went to curse my victum and the mother told me how shes gonna go to the principle and i cursed her out and told her its the last week of school i want to get suspended to get out of school early. but i took it to far i brought a nail clipper to school and most nail clippers have files with sharp curved edges and i stabbed her twice(not deep just penetrated skin it didnt even bleed) but then one night i was on the computer and i was reviewing an old conversation we had when we were friends and i realized i was such an idiot and now i lost on of my best friends its been nearly 2 years and i continue to ask her to forgive me but she wont. not only i lost my friends but i started to hang out with the wrong crowd since i wasnt her friend. i started to smoke and drink. and if it wasnt for one substitute teacher that had a class discussion on life and how you only have 1 chance dont ruin it i would either be in jail now or living a life of drugs and violence.
now everyone out there whos a cyber bully stop it you are hurting someone and yourself. emails and texts, can be traced. cyberbullyings a crime now(not when i did it luckily) and you will most likely be jailed. especially if the person is your old friend then your losing a friend who probably never intended in hurting you and you could cost them their life.
like my friends say payback is a bitch she actually told all her friends whom of which were also my so called “friends” turns out they sided with her and one of them actually dumped a bottle of water on me. of course i didnt let it go i punched the person in the back of the head while they were walking away. now i lost my best friend and many others and now im forced to live with the fact that its my fault and i over reacted for nothing
people i know this is long but if you listen it might save someone
May 27th, 2010 at 8:45 am
im 13 and my school is going throgh alot of bullying stuff right now that is really how i found this website. But i understand how everyone feels this is so wrong what people think they can say to other people.
May 28th, 2010 at 3:32 am
I have been cyber bullied online, I will not mention the names but it was hurtfull. She wrote rude things about me and Demi. Its hurtful, so why do it?
May 28th, 2010 at 12:01 pm
Although I have never had to experience cyber bullying it is a serious problem…to simply blame it on kids that have nothing to do with their lives is wrong. The kids that do cyber bullying have the same sort of intentions as straight up bullying. This morning all the teachers at my school were given a link to report about another school, a report of them and a student being sued for damages because this child had had is testicle taken out because some kid thought it would be funny to come up to an unawre kid and punch him in the groin. Now cyber bullying may have no physical damage however it does way heavily on poeple. It can be more damaging then regular bullying.
However…putting this problem in the catagory of simply a childs problem is a gross misunderstanding. We are influenced by things we hear say and write all the time. We form opinions about people far sooner then we should and with words from unreliable sources. We listen to biased news all the time and never really get to the bottem of hard issues because they make us uncomfortable. This world of cyber bullying is an adult problem as well as a kid problem. The only reason its more prevalent in the younger community is because the flux of hormones and because in high school embarrassing things are far far more devestating then when your older.
May 30th, 2010 at 11:03 am
cyber bullying is growing very fast in this world and it make children and also adult to be die so we have to stop cyber bullying. Such as making fake facebook accounts and also sonding messages and making rumours. ihad been teased when i came to canada which is new to canada it just 9 months to me to canada . in school my classmates was teasing me and i told on them in the office about them and they got into trouble.
June 2nd, 2010 at 5:16 pm
I totally agree with Cheyenne you shouldn’t have to change cause someone tells you to and i feel for Pooooo because i know whats it like. Why do people think they can get away with bullying other people!!? I am 15 and knew it was but not this bad. Our class has just read a book Destroying Avalon by Kate McCaffrey and it open my eyes to what is out. If there anyone out there who think it good to Cyber Bullying read this book.
June 9th, 2010 at 10:59 am
I dont believe in cyber bullying.. The internet is a very vast place and because we all have freedom of speech and everyone has a cellphone with a camera, anyone can upload a picture and harass anyone online. We just have to let our children and families know that it is not personal, tese people do not have lives and are intending to hurt other people who they are envious, jealous or upset with. Turn the computer off, report the person or page and block them from associating with you. For the children who catch it, try to find the parents and let them know what rotten little bastards they have raised who like to harass people online and alert the authorities. Dont take it personally, and remember, revenge is a dish best seerved cold. Learn how to fight back. Because I can talk about people a million times worse than they ever can talk about me.
June 21st, 2010 at 9:09 pm
HEy well who ever da [beep] likes bullying other people is stupid…you ppl dnt knw how bad it hurts pplz feelings…
June 22nd, 2010 at 6:03 pm
lol, i was cyber bullied but after a while i stpped caring what the person said and just replyed ” i don’t really care what you say cuase we’re probably never gonna see each other ever anyways ” XP
these kids and adults need to understand that not everyone is going to like them and they have to get used to it. true, it is scary that they are being threated and it’s not funny that their being threated but like my dad says.
” tell an adult and suck it up.”
July 11th, 2010 at 10:21 pm
Kudos for having an honest discussion on bullies. Whether they choose to do it online or by traditional methods, we have to tell these mean-spirited people their behavior is unacceptable and they will have to accept the consequences for their actions. Bullying is learned behavior that is culturally reinforced in our schools and workplace, and often times bullies do their dirty business when no one is around. All too often they operate under the controls of fear and intimidation because they know people accept such abusive nonsense as a right of passage of growing up. Baloney!
We can teach our children and teenagers to have confidence in themselves and learn the signs of bullying behavior before they become active and passive targets of bullies. We can also teach the bullies about compassion for themselves and others. Often times bullies engage in mean-spirited behavior because they have poor social and communication skills and lack a moral compass to guide them towards accepting responsibility. This forum is a great way for parents, children, educators, and community leaders alike to
engage in dialogue to solve this problem.
July 16th, 2010 at 2:54 am
I am completely astonished at how many people have been hurt and respond so entirely to this subject. Although I’ve never been the victim or bully of cyberbullying I was subject to threats and physical abuse by a girl when I was five. She told me not to tell and the only reason I didn’t was because she said that she’d put my mum in jail. I came home from preschool each day with large marks down my back, bruises from being slammed against a brick wall repeatedly. But that wasn’t all. I was called names by a guy about four years older than me when I was in year 2 and I was similarly treated in year 7. Year 7 to tell you the truth was the worst year of my life. I slowly slipped into mild depression, only had one true friend and my health deteriorated. People threw things at me and called me names. I also got a bitchy attitude and a pretty low amount of patience and self-esteem.
It all changed in about the beginning of the second semester when a guy and I went to a University, the only two from our year to say a speech about an excursion we’d went on to visit a university with our year. We spoke about our aspirations — mine being becoming a marine biologist at the time and his being the owner of a truck business — and I got pretty loathed about it, mostly because I never got picked to go away for anything and that I done so well. After that my mum pulled me out of that school and I now have to travel two hours a day– 10 hours equivalent to 10,000km a week– for school. In my opinion, it’s all worth it and someday I aspire to become a bestseller author. I may even write a book about it, who knows. I now have about 35 friends, am happy and I’m striving for academic excellence.
In my opinion, bullying is cowardly and stupid. It’s only done mostly because people don’t have anything better to do with their lives and/or they’ve had previously been hurt in some way, shape or form. Like, domestic abuse or something similar. I just wish some people would get a life.
What happened to me in the past has shaped my outlook on life dramatically and I can say that if it hadn’t happened to me, I may be slightly different in the way I approach the subject. Bullying affects you for life, hopefully for the better as it has for me. These days I’m ecstatic, happy, healthy and living life to the best of my ability. Writing has also helped me, as have my family and friends.
Karma is also a powerful element in life and I believe in it entirely, but it doesn’t make me detest anyone or wish bad things for them. But, here’s what happened to them:
1) The girl who bashed me and threatened me decided to threaten someone… more powerful than her. She got pushed down a flight of stairs and got hurt slightly. That happened to shape her outlook slightly.
2) The guy eventually finished school and I haven’t seen him since.
3) The girls who threw things at me and whispered right in front of me have since split up and now they’re in the position I was at the time.
These are mere coincidences and happened following the times that I left those places. I heard from old friends of what happened to them and now, I’m happy and most of them are too. These occurrences have shaped my outlook and made me stronger. Now, I’m more resistant to anything malicious and I know how to act if anything happens. I know that my friends are there for me, and I have now found a few talents I never knew I had. Someday, I may also strive to become a psychologist and help those who have had similar or worse experiences. Following the death of one of my friend’s brother I now listen more openly than ever, giving my own support to those who are in difficulty and my newly kind nature has earned me a lot of respect, each with my family, friends, friend’s families and teachers.
July 19th, 2010 at 9:41 am
I think cyber bullying is stupid, because the attackers are not man enough to confront them face-to-face. People don’t realize that there are consequences for them and the victom. They wouldn’t want to get cyber bullied, so don’t do it to anyone else. I say they are cowards who can’t do anything bad besides in the conforts of their house. Also the attackers are not going to have a succsessful life because of what they do. One more thing is that when the attackers talk to one person they don’t stop so it can ruin their whole life. This is stupid because they don’t notice that they are ruining not only the other persons life but your also ruining your own life because you can go to jail. So if you are being cyber bullied tell someone and don’t let it get to you.
July 21st, 2010 at 4:26 pm
Victoria babyyy
they are scare and lonely in there real lives so they get on face book and tease you and not feel scareed of any retaliaTION
July 27th, 2010 at 12:41 am
I have been cyber bullied online, I will not mention the names but it was hurtfull. She wrote rude things about me and my friend. Its hurtful, so why do it?
July 28th, 2010 at 7:58 am
hello to all of whom has posted a comment on this website,
cyber bullying is a big issue. although some people believe that there are different causes: like the bullyer lives in a difficult environment, or the bullyer has been bullied themselves, or even that they are just mean and cruel. the point is, that not only kids bully, but adults bully more than kids! and how do you think we “kids” learn to bully. i believe it is not only the “monkey see, monkey do” process but it maybe also genetic. humans are the most emotional creatures on the planet and we need to learn how do deal with this. in great times of sorrow, we come together. at times of anger and war, we split apart. well duh! we are affected by our emotions.
going back to “who bullies.” not just “kids” bully. adults bully, in my opinion, worse than kids!!!
if you go to the very top of this long list of comments you will come to a response indicating the bullying of adults to adults. the example, during the presidential campaign, cyber bullying was an issue discused with the presidential candidates. also, still to this day, sara palin is being or was being cyber bullied. and this is because cyber bullying is not just on the internet but also in the media! IF AN ADULT WANTS TO COMPLAIN ABOUT CYBERBULLYING!!! THEY CAN BLAME ALL THE MEDIA, PAPARAZZI, AND ALL OTHER ADULTS WHO TALK “junk” about other adults!!!
when you watch the news, you see the “daring secrets” of celebrities, or of other famous people in the world.
WHERE THE HELL DO YOU THINK WE “KIDS” GET THE DAMN IDEA?!
so just to let you all know, for the Y4C - our goal is to study the reasons and statistics of bullying and to discus the issue with our group and come with a reason why our efforst aren’t working.
and for those who need help with bullying, tell a parent, they can help.
August 2nd, 2010 at 9:17 am
I hate cyberbullying!
August 5th, 2010 at 5:03 am
I realy dont get it why can people be so cruel and what you doing is realy stupid and not funny at all I mean if you want attension why dont you go seek for it at your because bulling someone dorsnt make you ant cooler you guys are stupid and imature
August 5th, 2010 at 11:54 pm
yhh i noe thy sooo scared of u bt in facebook, msn and myspace thy r nt scared thy lke tease u an make u feel bad
August 10th, 2010 at 10:38 am
“Kill Kylie Incorporated” is so mean! Why wound u make a waebsite to kill somebody else like that! Cut cyberbullying out!