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The Rise of Cyber Bullying

Posted by simoniker on from the the-inevitable-cyber-wedgie dept.

santos_douglas writes "The Detroit Free Press has an article detailing the problems schoolchildren now face in the form of online cyber bullying. As if parents didn't already have enough to worry about! Examples include rumor spreading typically via text messaging, threatening emails, invasive pictures taken with camera phones, and the most extreme - creating entire websites to criticize/threaten/harass another student. The article suggests many tips for combating the problem - chief among them being the establishment of specific school policies. I suppose this is another example of an inevitable downside to the interconnected world. Mandatory Google search for your added reading pleasure."

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  1. Oh man... by PurdueGraphicsMan · · Score: 4, Funny
    Wow. Man am I glad that I didn't have to worry about this stuff when I was in elementary school. I was a fat kid that got picked on by two scrawny girls I now call the "Joslin Twins". I don't think I could have handled it if they would have setup a website detailing all of my shortcomings and reasons why other people should hate me since I was fat. It's a good thing that they've forgotten about me and they're white trash. They wouldn't even begin to know how to put up a website.

    Does Front Page Express still come free with Windows? I hope not...

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    1. Re:Oh man... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny


      Even the boy scout troop gave me a dirty swirlie in an outhouse

      Uhh... here in .ca that means you had your butthole eaten out, no kidding.

    2. Re:Oh man... by badboy_tw2002 · · Score: 5, Funny

      Revenge is sweet tho; all these big jocks are MBA's now and pay big $$$ for their websites, etc. Of course, my *own* sites are free... :D

      Yeah, and they probably have to pay someone to fix that expensive Porche they have! And look at the money you saved by not buying breast implants for your trophy wife!! I guess the joke is on those losers!

    3. Re:Oh man... by mav[LAG] · · Score: 4, Funny

      I am a professional in New York City making very decent cache

      So is it level 1 or level 2?

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  2. ha by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny


    My modem can beat up your modem!

  3. You're looking at this the wrong way . . . by bedouin · · Score: 3, Funny

    Wouldn't this be a perfect opportunity for the nerds to get even with the bullies?

  4. Nobody picked on me by pegr · · Score: 3, Funny

    Nobody that picked on me had the brains to put up a website! In fact, I didn't gain the respect of the jocks until CompSci class when they would ask me to help with their work. Of course, it was all on Commodore PETS (gawd, I feel old...).

    1. Re:Nobody picked on me by liquidsin · · Score: 2, Funny

      My theory on this is that from middle through high school, boys form a linear hierarchy of individuals...

      And you were hassled by bullies, you say? I can't imagine why...

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    2. Re:Nobody picked on me by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      There were fights in my high school, but they tended to be between girls fighting over some guy (no, really!).

      You didn't happen to get any video, did you? Care to post it for us to... errr... verify your story?

    3. Re:Nobody picked on me by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      >> Having never been female, though, that's just speculation; feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.

      Scientific method, I say.

      Just do a transexual surgery and then come with factual evidence. Nothing beats first-hand experience, if you know what I mean... wink, wink, wink...

  5. my boss by malus · · Score: 2, Funny

    has been bullying me with email for years. "Communicate with the customer or else!", and that type of thing.

  6. If I see by Timesprout · · Score: 4, Funny

    anyone posting AC here I'm gonna kick your ass, I know who you are and you better have your lunch money with you tomorrow.

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  7. Gimme your lunch money! by digital_milo · · Score: 5, Funny

    I guess we've found yet another use for micropayments.

  8. I got in trouble by AndreyF · · Score: 2, Funny

    I got in trouble for bullying when I told a kid I had a trojan on his computer and had more access to it than he did (I was bsing) :)

  9. Funny that... by Leebert · · Score: 4, Funny

    My little brother's website (which includes photos and comments sections) was spammed pretty bad by a member of a rival football team.

    My the profanities! I'm thinking of making Apache redirect to goatse.cx the next time someone comes back from the offender's /24.

    1. Re:Funny that... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      I'm thinking of making Apache redirect to goatse.cx the next time someone comes back from the offender's /24

      Even better - make it do it the first time, then not for the next 5 times, and then randomly after that..

      So when he goes to show someone else, they'll look at him like he's lost his marbles.. then he'll check again :o)

  10. Re:Yet another... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny
    Parents need to take responsibility. GTA is not why your kid is a fucking asshole.

    Can someone tell me why old people online are such assholes? My mother got involved in the most crazy group of people from an online Bingo site of all places. Then after awhile she started getting into harder stuff like Yahoo Messenger chats and video. It's fucking crazy what dirty old senior citizens talk about. I thought I stumbled into a teen chat room when I saw what kind of backstabbing dickwads prevail on these places.

  11. Mandatory? by Call+Me+Black+Cloud · · Score: 3, Funny

    Since when are Google searches mandatory? Did I miss a memo? Oh wait, I know, I bet in was in that memo with the thing about the TPS report cover sheets. Damn, looks like I'll be working this weekend to retrofit my submissions...

  12. The old days.. by Mr_Cheeky · · Score: 2, Funny

    What ever happened to being stuffed into a locker?

  13. Re:the persistence of boners by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    I was always embarassed when I had a persistent boner at school, too.

  14. necessity by thoolihan · · Score: 2, Funny

    Now to invent a cell phone that can give wedgies...

    -t

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  15. I'll show you who the bully is! by orthogonal · · Score: 5, Funny

    The article sux0r5, and so does the author, MIKE WENDLAND!

    MIKE WENDLAND, I've got embarrassing pictures of you!

    And I know where you work, MIKE WENDLAND!

    I'll be watching to see if you write any more of your "columns", MIKE WENDLAND!

    Yeah, don't you forget it MIKE WENDLAND. I'll be watching every Monday and Friday, and alternate Tuesdays and Thurdays.

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  16. not really by GoatPigSheep · · Score: 3, Funny

    1) Bully hurts nerd 2) Nerd makes website insulting bully 3) Bully hurts nerd worse

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  17. Re:Just crack the bullies' systems.. by bhtooefr · · Score: 2, Funny

    Fight carefully. Don't h4x0r their box - let them find out how to h4x0r your box, then report them to their ISP.

  18. Re:Something to ponder .... by Kenja · · Score: 1, Funny

    Your honor, we the prosecution intend to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that our clients mama is not so fat that when she sits around the house, she site AROUND the house.

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  19. tatesless joke by SQLz · · Score: 2, Funny

    Well, you can always fight back by showing up to school with a a trenchcoat and some semi automatic rifles and just take out the people that are bothering you....oh wait.

  20. front page by theMerovingian · · Score: 2, Funny
    Does Front Page Express still come free with Windows?


    Yeah, I use it to make my Slashdot posts.

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  21. Re:Give'm the Slashdot Effect by FCKGW · · Score: 3, Funny

    Even easier if it's a Geocities page or something similar with a low transfer limit: just write a little script calling wget to download each file, then have cron (or scheduled tasks on Windows) call that script every minute.

    What sweet irony it would be to have a site making fun of me for being a geek, then using abilities gained from being a geek to kill it. Nobody successfully attacks us geeks on our home turf. ;-)

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