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I'm not entirely sure why anyone would be that offended that much over the internet.
I'm not entirely sure why anyone would be that offended that much over the internet.
This, though if you're being cyberbullied by people you know or through sites like Twitter and Facebook, things are a bit different for me. Bullying is never something that I really pass over, and I think people who take the time to cyberbully - especially people they don't know - need to take a serious look at their lives, because they're the ones with the problems.Pretty much, they're pathetic because they have nothing better to do than to hurt someone over the Internet. But that's for random encounters on Omegle, for example. If you let that stuff get to you, you're way too sensitive.
I find the "man up you shouldn't be hurt by it" mentality pretty intolerant of other peoples' mindsets. Sure, there are plenty of people that get upset when it's not really something to get upset over, but at the same time there are plenty of people that maybe have a really crappy home life, no friends, and can really be themselves on the internet, and then are tortured by people online.
I match this criteria and I still think people just need to learn to deal with it. Sure if they have a lot of other **** going on then it can add to the pile of crap going on in their life. But I feel a lot of people just complain over nothing, they act like their life is hard as **** because they get bullied online, when it really is nothing. I was extensively physically bullied irl and I had to learn to deal with it, so people who complain about "nasty words on the internet" just seem cheap to me.
I'm not trying to justify people who bully online, they are still horrible. But when it comes to the internet there are so many ways to prevent it, you can block them and just immediately cut them out of their life. People who get bullied in real life don't have that to fall back on, they have no way to get rid of it; bullying online is nothing in comparison.
It's not about "manning up", I can understand sensitivity, but sometimes people are just TOO sensitive. There needs to be a point where you can no longer use the excuse "I'm sensitive so it hurts more". Honestly, cry me a river, just learn to realise some things are not as harmful as you think they are.
I understand where you are coming from, and I agree to an extent. I see it a lot "oh you're a white middle class male who has loving parents so you have no right to be sad" < that is ********, I agree.
But I guess what I'm trying to say is, when it comes to the internet it is actually manageable. Venturing upon the internet is a choice; you choose who you talk to, what websites you go on, and there are always measures to take against bullying etc. you can easily just stop going to abusive websites. It is a totally manageable and preventable, and I feel a lot of people act like it's worse than what it actually is just for sympathy. If you look at people who have killed themselves over "cyberbullying" it's actually people from their school who are bullying them, so it is in fact an extenstion of irl bullying. The media has gone insane over cyberbullying, blowing it out of proportion.
For example say, you suddenly got bullied on PC. I mean seriously bullied, not a random noob saying "lol ur dumb" you would either ditch the site entirely or report them, and if it was serious they would almost certainly get banned. If you were getting bullied so badly that you considered suicide what would be your first course of action? Leaving PC or just going straight for it and hanging yourself?