Cyberbullying is...... a Movie?

[The Serpent]

In Cyberspace, I am not sure I can think of a game or service that doesn't let you block messages from certain people, and even if you can't, you can always see that the message came from said bully and just ignore it?

If I am missing something, please (politely) enlighten me, but this just doesn't seem like a big deal from where I stand.

Why is everyone is this thread assuming "cyberbullying" means getting your anonymous alias flamed? Cyberbullying is what happened to Star Wars-kid, Rick Astley, Rebecca Black, and in many smaller ways to children (and adults) who use services like Youtube, Facebook or run a blog. Trust me, if everyone is ridiculing you (your name, your face) online; you have a bright target painted on your back in everyday life as well. Everyone you know will know that people mock you on the Internet. And the mocking never stops. In real life you can run away from the bullies and the bullying stops. It ceases to exist the moment you are gone. But on the Internet there is no running away. And when Rebecca Black hits forty someone she just met might suddenly remember the video or hear "That's that girl that sang the awful song every laughed at for months", and then the ridicule (which was basically everyone on planet Earth mocking one 13 year old) she faced when she was 13 starts all over again.

 

[Caligulust]

I can't quite see what makes cyber bullying so special in comparison with "regular" bullying. A bully is a bully. It taking place on the internet doesn't make it anymore special than it is in real life. Chances are if you're being harassed by someone you know online, you're being harassed in real life by them. In that case, you can probably do something about it. If you're being harassed by a stranger, you probably shouldn't take them seriously.

Though if your head is Photoshopped into a gross pornographic image and it looks believable, that's a different story.

I dunno, it's about how you handle it. To entice pretty bad cyber bullying, you have to do something pretty stupid like Jessie Slaughter.

 

[TheIronRuler]

Shit.
Here, my first word in this post is a profanity.
Let me explain to you why -
Indtead of making media about the phenomenon to make money, they could use money to make media about the phenomenon that will educate people and hopefully STOP this phenomenon.
Instead they insist on profiting from this...this... I'm not even sure how to call this nonsense.
Why should I care about Cyber-bullying? I'm 16 and don't care. On the other hand two years ago I got beat up every day at school for a year. I put up a fight, kick his ass in return, and he somehow thinks that this is mutual and we should go on with this. No, mate, I don't like having my nose broken.
At least it wasn't one sided, it was just a very thick person.

 

[Cid Silverwing]

Oh Jesus non-existent Christ.

Here we go...

 

[A Raging Emo]

As long as they are honest about the subject (and not all "OMG technology!")

From everything about the subject and anything relating to the Internet (that didn't originate from the Internet) that has been made so far that catches the public eye, it will just be all "OMG! Technology! Panic and freak out!".

On Topic: I know what being bullied feels like. Only offline, as I often find like-minded people on the internet. I do sympathise with people who are subject to bullying, but it is so much easier to avoid it online, especially since most "cyber"-bullying is from kids that the victim knows in person, they can just block them or avoid contact. obviously, there are rare cases (See: Jessie Slaughter) where this isn't the case, but you all surely follow what I mean, right?

 

[William MacKay]

Cyber bullying = regular bullying, but it uses the internet/phones to accomplish the same thing. People commit suicide due to harassment, not the medium in which its done.

or depression, a medical condition that has nothing to do with being bullied.
but you make a good point. they say 'cyber' bullying because they hate new things and are scared.

 

[Pegghead]

I know that it's a big issue (let's face it, give an asshole a medium to broadcast anything and everything about their victim to everyone and the porblem just becomes alot worse) and that alot of people have gone through often undeserved suffering because of it, but something tells me that this'll portray cyber-bullying in an incredibly over-hyped fashion.

Let's play out the plot of the movie, shall we escapist? Say it with me:

*Mary Sue in idyllic small-town America accidentally rubs an adolescent combination of Hitler and Lizzie Borden up the wrong way

 

[edudogel]

One death is a tragedy, one million deaths is a statistic.

 

[Durgiun]

Suddenly, I'm having flashbacks to those anti-pot propoganda films from the early 201th century.

 

[RJ Dalton]

I couldn't give a shit about this if I used an industrial strength laxative. These after-school specials are always terribly over-dramatic and unpleasant to watch.

 

[CODE-D]

In Cyberspace, I am not sure I can think of a game or service that doesn't let you block messages from certain people, and even if you can't, you can always see that the message came from said bully and just ignore it?

If I am missing something, please (politely) enlighten me, but this just doesn't seem like a big deal from where I stand.

"That's that girl that sang the awful song every laughed at for months"

maybe thats why you shouldnt put awful songs on the internet or if you have to be prepared.

 

[BlackWidower]

I love how they say they want to combat cyber-bullying. How exactly? do they want to make it illegal to talk shit about someone online? Have they ever heard of the First Amendment?

If you don't like what some asshole is saying, go to a different site. Maybe that's what we should be teaching our kids, to walk away.

 

[Steven Biehler]

a few things
1. Kids are inherently assholes and there is nothing you can do about that, just let them be kids. I do think that you should intervene if something is happening though. (I was a kid who was bullied)
2. I really doubt that an ABC Family movie will cause a teenager to suddenly "see the light" and stop being a cyber-bully.

 

[Ickorus]

I don't see too much issue with it, people need to be aware that what they say online can have some real and terrible consequences. The problem is, im not really sure that movie is going to speak that message properly, most people don't really have any sort of vindictive intent when they say nasty things to others online, its more that they just don't think about it, im just as guilty as anyone else really, I say stuff to people online that I often regret in retrospect.

 

[Chase Yojimbo]

Natural Selection. It is simply an extremely cruel mental test to see whether or not you are ready to join society. Though it is cruel, we have to traverse the tunnel before staring at the light. I had many problems from a few cases of cyber bullying that simply got to me when it shouldn't have.

In hindsight, KIDS. ARE. ASSHOLES. and they will only get worse as parents don't discipline them anymore "by any means". Kids simply are not taught at a young age to appreciate individuality, and they are instead taught to stick with who they resemble instead of accepting everyone for who they are, hence the "Cliques" in high school, and soon to be cliques in Elementary schools (with the way that that 7 year olds act in E. Schools now adays, they act more like irresponsible teenagers from what I hear, even worse in some cases).

 

[blaize2010]

My catholic high school showed the movie about porn addiction. It was probably the most unintentionally hilarious movie I had ever seen. Plus lyndsy fonseca was in

Was it the lifetime movie "Cyber Seduction," by any chance?

yep

I think it's a prequal [small](HA)[/small]

pornography makes your male friends hate your mother want you out of her house, and teenage girls yell at you. also, it can only be bought from "porn dealers" on the side of the road, or from those friends who sit in the back of the class and chuckle all through sex ed. if you're not careful, you could get hooked, causing you to go to such great lengths as to sell your car, home, even your computer for your next fix.

 

[burningdragoon]

I believe this is an appropriate link for this topic:

http://www.cracked.com/article_18982_5-terrifying-online-trends-invented-by-news-media_p2.html

Oh look at #1, cyberbullying and how the cases of suicide over it were, get this, because of regular bully which happened to include cyber bullying.

Don't get me wrong, I think the movie is going to be silly and dumb, but I have to assume that most people aren't watching the trailer before commenting on it. It seems to be going in the direction of cyber bullying with effects that bleed into real life and not 'wah wah wah people online are being mean to me"

Anyway, children will be little shits no matter what tools are available to them.

 

[Littlee300]

I cant sympathize with those who are "cyberbullied" it doesnt seem that bad. Maybe you shouldnt be giving out your personal info to so many people?

Im sure abc fam is going to dramatize the shit out of it though, same as lifetime.

Teenagers aren't the most rational bunch and are vulnerable compared to adults
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Moral of the story: Kids can be cruel.

I thought your point was kids are too sensitive.

I guess I have two points