Cyber bullying
TriumphantAngel
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Just finished reading a story about a young girl (14), who took her own life a couple of days ago, allegedly as a result of being subjected to cyber bullying.
Even more disturbing, is the fact that she was the fourth person at her high school, to take her own life in the past six months.
I mean people like to shoot the shit here, and just suck it up when someone is an asshole, because most of us are probably old enough and mature enough to handle it, but i can't imagine what it must be like to be 14 and be subjected to what she must have gone through. It's heartbreaking.
I will never encourage any children i may have, to join facebook, twitter, myspace and shit like that. Pick up the phone, ring your friends, have them over, go to the movies, play sport, live life, be a kid for gods sake.
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/ ... 22,00.html
Even more disturbing, is the fact that she was the fourth person at her high school, to take her own life in the past six months.
I mean people like to shoot the shit here, and just suck it up when someone is an asshole, because most of us are probably old enough and mature enough to handle it, but i can't imagine what it must be like to be 14 and be subjected to what she must have gone through. It's heartbreaking.
I will never encourage any children i may have, to join facebook, twitter, myspace and shit like that. Pick up the phone, ring your friends, have them over, go to the movies, play sport, live life, be a kid for gods sake.
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/ ... 22,00.html
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http://abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/story?id=4861399&page=1
i never thought of it that way...pretty fucked up
i was bullied when i was a kid...most kids are....but i never let it get to me...it's weird...i was never told by my parents to ignore it i just did...a bully only wants attention and if you react to their taunts it gives them satisfaction and allows them to do further damage...for whatever reason i knew this as a kid and never forgot it...lucky i guess
in some ways technology has made things worse in society....being at home with your family used to be a safe haven from the bullies...now they follow you wherever you go :(
or TAX IT HEAVILY!
I can see no other options here.
Besides, the internet is REALLY BAD FOR THE ENVIRONMENT!
REALLY BAD!
Massive Computer Centers Bad for the Environment
If I opened it now would you not understand?
oh it wasn't bad...nothing more than any kid experiences....but i just didn't let it get to me....and we're talking about the 70's....the bullies were mean but nothing of the extreme there are today
SS, i know you're a lawyer, so how do you see that she was not able to be charged with her actions that ultimately led to the girls death?
Thank you..
http://www.smh.com.au/technology/lori-d ... -d6s0.html
There's just not really a crime to charge her with. You can't go to jail for teasing or emotional abuse. Especially not in a situation like this. That's why they went with this weak computer crime, which is directed more towards hackers than anything else. It was the best they could do. Fraud demands some sort of financial stake. There might be a few misdemeanors, depending on the laws of Missouri... some sort of impersonation perhaps, but it probably wouldn't land her in jail. It's tough to hold somebody guilty of murder unless they really directly caused the death somehow. She didn't.
She's going to get sued in civil court for money I'm sure, and she will undoubtedly lose there and be bankrupted. But there's not a crime with jailtime here really.
Though I just read this at the bottom:
"Jurors decided Drew was not guilty of the more serious felonies of intentionally causing emotional harm while accessing computers without authorisation. The jury could not reach a unanimous verdict on a felony conspiracy charge."
I've never heard of that, but I have no idea why a jury wouldn't convict her of that.
yeah that's my understanding...and i've watched a lot of law tv shows
seriously though, what kind of person, let alone parent, does this kind of thing?
so this jealous person made up a hate group with 30 members but called used the category of "spiritual group."
I reported the site, said I was his Aunt , that the language was foul and told his age. It was removed within a week.
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You're right about making things worse in society in ways.
It's as if the internet has helped desensitize this generation of teens at a younger age...yet at the same time made them social retards. It's a bully's heaven. Say what you want, run home, hide behind the monitor. There's absolutely no breaks from it anymore. There's no more 'enough is enough' and having a school yard fight to settle it out when something went too far, or letting a teacher, adult, or parent set everyone down and let them know their consequences. That means nothing anymore. You're never truly gone.
If you're a bully, you've become desensitized to the way life is these days and the harsh aspects of it and use it against the others.
If you're bullied, you never really do get a chance to think about your reactions, or really truly react in a social setting as you're being bullied 24/7.
It's a pretty odd state for them all.
Most kids I knew and grew up with all were bullied and did some bullying and then there was the few assholes, and the few spineless. It was apart of growing up. Nothing major. That whole social experiment of growing up with a community and learning to mend it has seemingly gone out the window in many cases.
Cyber bulling I think can be dealt with proper supervision by parents however bullying at school a is another matter entirely. I was bullied in junior high and I dealt with it in my own way after a year of this misery. The following year being a year younger I picked out the weakest bully amongst this clan beat the living daylights out of him. They never messed with me after that again and in fact wanted me to join up with the group.
I gladly chose to hang with another group of friends. The teens today face another whole new realm of the bullies that rome our schools, I don't know if what I back then did would've worked today.
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As a parent (and a high school teacher) it scares the shit out of me but we need to keep the internet in places where we can see it and be aware of what is going on. Technology is a part of their world and it will not go away so it is up to us as the adults to keep them safe. :? Also we need to kick them off it and send them outside to hang out with real humans.
I have always said it was a dangerous playground and I was one of those "Not my kid!" parents when I got a personal visit from a policeman two years ago that involved my son, his ex girlfriend and her new boyfriend using my daughter's MySpace page attacking each other privately.
I made a rule that I had to be a friend of theirs but it looked fine outside...but not privately where things were very ugly.
I was shocked and angry - and I agreed with the policeman that my son is responsible for his own actions and should be punished. He looked very surprised and told me that it was uncommon that a parent of a guilty child would welcome him inside the house and have a rational conversation.
Upon further investigation on my own, his ex girlfriend was using her new boyfriend as a way of getting back at my son because he broke up with her (but he was still jealous of her new bf)... so things got out of control and some things shouldn't have been said.
Even the police and school thought it was odd that the boy's mother waited ONE week before reporting my son and did NOT even contact me, his mother. They also interviewed the boy and turns out he was exaggerating his "fears" of my son, whom he admitted he had never met in person.
So things really blew out of porportion and they decided to let this go, but warned them not to do this again.
After that indicient, I ordered all of my children to delete all of their accounts and no new accounts will be allowed until they learn how to handle themselves online - whether offline or online.
My 12 years old son's YT was hacked and a kid at his school used his account to attack other people while imposing him. It was hard proving that... but luckily for him, everyone at school knew he was a sweetheart and never talked to people that way using foul language - even when he was angry. Important lesson for my son - never share password with anyone.
I had that account deleted as well... . not more YT, MySpace, and they do not have FB either.
But they learned a big lesson - that everything can be recorded and saved as an evidences to be used against them.
It is NOT easy being a parent these days - both offline and online. It's quite challenging - the kids are really savvy these days.
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