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Originally Posted by Paul  It IS a shame that this happens to people, and yes, people are more sensitive and it's not solely the bully's fault that it occurs in the first place. But it's common knowledge by now that it DOES occur. You can't then simply say "People shouldn't kill themselves so easily, so I can keep being a royal prick and picking on a little kid." These were grown men and women ****ing with this little girl, and look at how it got blown out of proportion. These ****ing people had nothing better to do?
As far as it being the little girl's fault, the kid was 13 years old. You know, I hate it when people turn their noses up at people who suicide like they've commited some unthinkable crime against the world. The person was feeling such an intense pain or loss that they thought it would be better that they just died then and there. I mean, can you actually grasp that concept? Do you understand what that would be like? And if you do, why are you then concerned about the people AROUND her? I'd be more concerned about what's causing it. And I'll tell you now, it's not the generation's fault. This generation didn't just magically spawn a bunch of young teenagers who like to kill themselves a lot, they were brought up in a way that allowed for it. |
Hey, I'm not saying it was her fault totally and I'm not saying that it was anyones fault fully. I'm just saying that the media seems to want to focus all of the blame on the internet bullies as opposed to other sources as well, and then the parents act all surprised like they thought she was perfectly happy or some ****. The parents here may or may not have been at fault, but it doesn't take a genius to figure out when someone isn't acting and behaving like a normal kid.
People are raised differently today, a lot of kids worlds revolve around the internet (at least indirectly) through myspace, facebook, and other social networks. This makes a severe disconnection with the family, so kids who do revolve around the internet a lot may feel neglected and unwanted, so it makes sense that when internet friends (real or not) dislike her they feel alone in the world, and I sympathize with that.
Does that mean the cyber bullies aren't jerks? No. But it does mean, that despite the media's efforts to blame everything on people on the internet, the root of all this is in fact the internet itself, but what drives a child to love the internet is being, or feeling rejected by friends in real life. Like I've said before, when you go to the internet to escape real life you'll probably end up more hurt in the end.
I think that people are getting too attached to this surreal cyber world where they can be whoever they want. Where they don't have to be shy and timid. Where they can be ten feet tall, but then you get these people who cut that down and it's like cutting out a last life line for some people. When you do that, life isn't worth anything anymore.
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Originally Posted by TheMasterOGames Did you read the same page as me?
Tl;dr: She got called names by some boy she has never met.
Hardly intense pain, not like she came from some rundown family with some Sarah Connor type story, it really is better that they died then and there if you can even consider suicide from that. I've been through worse and i came through the other side laughing. |
Some people are tougher than others, think about this, you're a male (I don't know how old you are) assuming you're at least 15 or so. She was a girl (already emotional) and this was a young one at that. She isn't mature enough to understand that some people are just jerkoffs, and she really hangs on to the words she hears or sees.
Especially if she was attached to the internet like that. It's an emotional catastrophe every time she loses a friend on the internet, point being anyways: If you're someone who doesn't have friends in the real world, and you rely on internet friends to feed the hole that leaves it's real ****ing hard to recover when they tear away just for the sake of having a good laugh.