I don't get this whole 'cyberbullying' thing. I've been bullied in real life, but the only way that ever effected me was physically, and that was with injuries. Then I learnt to either fight back if possible, or get the guy neck-deep into shit and then laugh my ass off at him.
What helped me deal with it was foresight. I knew for a fact that the people picking on me were dumb shits, and would go nowhere in life and become failures. I know for a fact that the main culprit got excluded and can't even get a job at Asda, and I laugh to myself when I think about all the meaningless crap he tried to pull.
Hell, the worst case of 'bullying' I've experienced, if you can call it that, is being attacked along with my friends by a group of youths when walking through a park late at night. They weren't after valuables, just to pick fights with people they had obvious advantages over (numbers and weapons...). Even then, thoughts going through my head were more like "For fuck's sake, what is wrong with people nowadays?" than "Oh fuck, why me, this is so horrible!" Maybe I'm detached, or have a Jackass level of self preservation. Either way, socially I turned out fine and have a great deal of close friends, new and old.
In sixth form, the way things worked was different. Everyone was on the recieving end of banter. The only people who got 'bullied' were the people who couldn't lighten the fuck up and take it like everyone else. Tell me that isn't fair - that's preparing people to the real world. If I couldn't cope with 'bullying', I wouldn't have a job, because it often feels like the manager is just trying to kick up shit with me. But that's life.
Also, cyberbullying = rofl, to me at least. I mean, shit. People were making all sorts of death threats and horrible suggestions to me when I was about 12, and that's because I kicked so much ass at Unreal Tournament and made grown men rage. Even then I laughed at it so hard and showed my big brother so he could laugh too. The trick with trolling is to troll harder. Nowadays it just gets easier and easier.
I appreciate other people's opinions, but that's where I stand.
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