Classroom Bullies On The Internet

peter303 writes "Oldtimers are familiar with sociopaths in usenet newsgroups and chat rooms. The NY Times has an article about grade school kids who bully on the Internet. These include message bombing and slanderous web pages. The web allows one to extend bad manners from real life."

Comments

Lame excuse.

[syrrys]

First of all, I am not afraid of any man on Earth...I just dont give a fuck. Having said that, there is nothing anyone can say to me to make me hit them. Why? I can control my anger and my actions. Try it some time. Your "Old Days" spiel about getting punched for saying something offensive tells us all how much you have managed to evolve. (hint: not much) Violence is a deterent how? Think again, buddy. The issue at hand is that many humans still have yet to figure out how to coexist with one another, and this always makes my stomach hurt.

Re:Idioticy of today's youth.

[Anonymous Coward]

I've never heard UC Berkeley and child pornography associated before, and didn't hear of any such link when I attended grad school there. Does your comment have any basis in reality, or did you just make it up because you thought it sounded cool (and you think that liberals are into child porn, perhaps)??

Re:Excellent

[Zibblsnrt]

That's me. I'm the other one, I was basically an outcast in school. I'm a complete misanthrope who wishes an asteroid would hit the Earth. I'm financially successful, but I can never trust anyone enought to make a lasting friendship because my worst torment came from people who claimed to be friends. As far as I'm concerned, humanity is a vast failure and the sooner it vanishes, the better.

And it doesn't end as you enter adulthood, not if you really look at things. People are the same approval seeking, filthy conformist fuckers from the time their baby brains become fully wired until the day they die. Nothing changes. The only reason most stop pulling bullshit after age 18 is because their asses can be sued or arrested.

Funny, as a former and still-sorta outcast myself, my own circle of friends has been doing quite well for themselves and each other, and ranks among one of the most mutually-supportive band of human beings I've ever heard of. You'd almost think that your experience was, like, not necessarily indicative of the entire population of the planet Earth. Funny, that.

And just because you've touched one of my time-to-be-a-jackass buttons at the same time, I'm going to wonder out loud why people keep pretending to believe that humanity sucks so much and should just wipe itself out already. I mean, if they really thought it was that unbearable, there're a variety of quick, easy and painless ways out. Alas, the suicide rate among the really loud misanthropes is low enough that I find myself increasingly convinced they don't really mean it, and are just angsting for its own sake.

-PS