Cyber bullying

I think parents need to know what their kids are doing online. They need to speak with their children and educate them. If they are under age then what they are doing is still their parents right to intervene. If parents watch and monitor and educate their children, it should help make a big difference.I have never had a problem but I have had friends who have run into differences even in pogo.

It has happened on this site Dawn. Not too long ago. I'm not saying who or why, but it happened. Several months ago I left the site for two weeks as a protest against cyber bullying of a friend. These are adults we are talking about. Very sad.

I have never blasted someone on line. I have held my end up when someone has blasted me or my family. But I try to stay away from drama. One time when I was on a forum. My sister posted on as well. I thought everyone liked each other and got along well. Since we were posting for several yeasr together. One day i moved out of state and I couldn't post cause i was in between service. Than people started bashing my sister bad. When I came back (I owned the forum) I was appaulded. I said it I catch anymore bashing i would start banning people. Well apologizes were made and I thought everything was fine again. well, 6 months later I moved again and was out of service due to moving. When I came back online I had to ban a couple people. When that happena chick started another forum up and started bashing me and my sister. i let it go til they started following her from board to board to start crap. They were stalking her and threatening her kids. at that time she just gave birth to a baby and her husband was in jail for being stupid. So, i told her to print everyone out and report it. Guess what!1 people got in big trouble. One lady in perticular..her husband was a cop.

I certainly think there are lots of cyber bullying nowadays. In fact, there are some which we can find here in mylot. I have always been patient and when I see some bullies here, I feel like reporting them. Perhaps I should do in future because more often than not, I have just ignored and moved on. As for other forms of cyber bullying which is more direct like the one you have mentioned, that is really indeed bad. I don't know why people need to resort to sarcasms, vulgarity and whatnot on the net. Just normal sarcasms are cool, but total vulgarity and exceptionally sarcastic words are totally out of the league. People are people and even when they hide behind the PC screens, they tend to act the same.

when u sit surfing or do any time of internet work you are less scared of anything of the consequences of what you are doing online. may be that's the reason why all these things are happening nowadays among the youngsters around the globe, and will grow up gradually and needs to be paid attention to solve.

I have been cyber bullied and back in the day I too was guilty of bullying ( not to the point of threatening people) I just got tired of people being mean so I told them where to go in which case made me a bully too. Of course back then I wasn't thinking in that manner but as we grow older we learn. In my case it was in yahoo chat there is a certain man there whom to this day ( 8 years later ) uses his knowledge to boot people out of chat, lock their accounts, find their addresses threaten them etc... Many people have contacted yahoo, the police etc.. nothing was ever done until finally someone that has contacts with the law had something done. It was so bad that over 50 people stopped going into chat because of this one man there was nothing we could do to stop him... it's sad really because we used to have a good time in there. I guess it's natural people tend to think when they first get online that they can be or act like anyone they want to. Thank God some grow up and learn unfortunately others don't!

This is actualy called flaming in slang on some times the people who talk so aggresivly are called trolls. Some would say do not feed the trolls. I think these kind of people are afraid to do it in real life so they bully others to get their frustration away.

I see it happen more than I would like, but I don't think there is much you can do to stop it. Kids will do what they please one way or another. I think it is sick, but kids also don't understand what their words can mean to people. Sad part is, that kids are now bullying one another through text messaging and not just online anymore.