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daedalus_was_right t1_ja88rl8 wrote

Reply to comment by Mullethunt in Student charged after bullied New Jersey school girl takes her own life by r4816

Whatever you tell yourself to sleep at night, sweetheart. You can ignore the fact that, in my community growing up, everyone had AIM and IRC and other forms of chatrooms that spread rumors and information like wildfire, but that doesn't make it a lie.

Not like that makes any difference; bullying is just as brutal whether the internet exists or not. When your cohort is only 100 people, and you get your shit kicked in in the hallway, the entire school knows what happened before the end of the day.

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trekologer t1_ja89uzl wrote

> everyone had AIM and IRC and other forms of chatrooms that spread rumors and information like wildfire

Yes and no. These things existed but not in an environment where you're always connected to them. You can't say with a straight face that the prevalence of smart phones, tablets, school-issued laptops, etc. hasn't made the opportunities for bullies to target their victims worse.

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daedalus_was_right t1_ja8atgr wrote

I can, actually.

There is documented data that rates of bullying have actually improved over the past few decades.

https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=719

Note that 2009 (the year cited in this data being compared to this decade) was before the introduction of smartphones en messe, and long before the proliferation of social media.

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trekologer t1_ja8d7aj wrote

You're missing my point. Even if the instances of bullying have gone down (and I have no reason to dispute that), today, there are fewer ways to escape bullying. In 1995, we went home after school and we could be isolated from others or if we wanted to talk on the phone to or hang out with friends, we could do that too.

Compare to today. Ding you've been added to a Whatsapp group. Ding you've been mentioned on an Instagram post. Ding your TikTok video has been shared. It is harder to escape all that especially when those are the ways your friends communicate with each other.

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Shishkebarbarian t1_ja8l59r wrote

AIM and IRC are nothing like facebook/tiktok/instagram/whatsapp, just stfu and stop making the story about you.

and this is coming from also someone who grew up on aim and mirc. you're either delusional or a troll. quit being a piece of shit.

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Mullethunt t1_ja89308 wrote

Oh cute, nicknames. Another person that can't have a conversation :)

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daedalus_was_right t1_ja896or wrote

Lmao you call me a liar but cry when you're treated the same way?

Don't throw rocks if you don't want them thrown back, bitch.

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Mullethunt t1_ja89qdo wrote

I cried? I was trying to have a conversation but your panties got twisted. To say/act like the internet is the same today as it was in the late 90s is a straight up lie. This is coming from someone that works in IT, with the internet. Grow the fuck up. I'd hate to be one of your students if you can't even have a conversation without needing to name call immediately.

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daedalus_was_right t1_ja89y58 wrote

Oh you work in IT, that makes you an expert on bullying.

I'm done wasting my time here. I'm not the one that opened the conversation with some name-calling. Good day rube.

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Mullethunt t1_ja8ah22 wrote

Holy shit, you're a teacher with that kind of observation? When the fuck did I say I was an expert in bullying? I called you out for your asinine comment that the internet is the same as it was 30 years ago. Then I gave you my reason why I would say that. You then make this about being a bullying expert? You just want to be upset and truly I feel bad for your students if that's even true. Keep up with the name calling though. It really helps show that you're anti-bullying :)

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