Is bullying really that bad a thing?

You make it sound as if this is some kind of anime where righteousness and justice prevails.

Ah Yes Sorry. That Never Really Happens. If It Does, Very Seldom. Cause I Was Watching 17 Again And Zac Did Something Like That. But I Do Believe People Are Capable Of Fending For Themselves.

Getting bullied at best only inoculates you against future bullying.

It seems most people share similar opinions on this issue. So, I'll throw out another question:

Is online bullying the same as real-life bullying?

There are examples of students making websites that do nothing but defame classmates and uploading embarrassing pictures where anyone can see them, and in those cases, the perpetrators are certainly bullies, even if it never leaves the internet. Those people are definitely doing something wrong. But those are hardcore bullies. They're the same people who dumped pig's blood on Carrie. What about the less dangerous bullies? The ones that just call you names and trip you in the hall? Their online equivalents, the cyber bullies - are they also doing something horrible, something that should not be allowed, something that is inappropriate in every case?

Yeah. A lot of web bullies who just verbally abuse like to let pass it off by quoting a popular sarcastic line, "Internet is srs business." In reality, many people take most shit seriously and the victim like it or not can't ignore the negative comments. The stuff you mentioned about posting pictures definitely ruins a person's reputation and can ruin the said person's life outside the net, so yeah it's just as bad.

I was the bully growing up. On the behalf of bullies everywhere I apologize for my actions.

Some guys tried to bully me back in high school, I got ready to rumble pretty quick right on the spot, they backed off pretty super quick XP That was only real trouble I ever had in High school.

Umm bullying is bad no matter what reason. There are very few people who would actually take it as a challenge to build character. More often than not they cave in and are deeply affected. Some change their personalities just to "go with the flow" and avoid getting bullied and that's not really healthy.

Hmm... I- I remember that the last time I got bullied well... that person is now cleaning the streets for money...

Anon is like the ultimate cyber bully as far as I know. The defamatory shit they do to people is horrible.

You can only speak for yourself.

Bullying... Now That I Think About What I Did. And Still Do To Freshies In Our University Is Very Close To Or Is Considered To Be Bullying.

I'm reminded of a commercial on the Disney channel I saw, something about stomping out bullying. Wouldn't that like be reverse psychology? :lol:

I was bullied from the third grade to the seventh grade by the same 5 or 7 people. Until one day (after a relative of mine died) they were messing with me and the fucking teacher was ignoring them. The teacher left the room to get something and I was tired of all of there crap. So I got out of my seat grabbed my pen and walked over to the biggest of them and put my pen to his throat and said "Back the fuck off or I will fucking kill you!" After that I took the pen and slammed it through the center of my right hand. Not the smartest thing did in school but it got my point across to those fucking morons.

And I Gotta Give You Credits For That.

As I Said Earlier. It Sometimes Helps People To Stand Up For Themselves... Eventually At Least.

Meh .. Goddamn, where do I begin. It probably started in fourth grade, I was the weird kid that wasn't popular (in the schools I've been in, last names mean everything - Your family's reputation is the reputation you're gonna get. Mine didn't really have one.) I got the usual name calling and shit like that, but then in seventh or maybe eighth, I got a NEW kind of bullying.

"THAT'S THE KID THAT LOOKS AT POKEMON PORN" (It was MISTY, by the way.)

People assumed that POKEMON meant ... Well, Pokemon, and wouldn't give me the time of day to explain myself (I was 11 or 12 at the time, actually no, 11 when I first started looking, probably 13 or 14 when that started) I was too weak of a person to just shrug it off, and it followed me for probably a good 4-5 months as the Pokemon porn kid. I guess I just liked hentai early? Hell, I dunno.

Things were normal (regular bully shit) until my senior year. I was the FUCKING FREAKY KID in my English class. No one would come NEAR me because they thought I was fucking insane - And I LOVED IT. It was lonely when no one wanted to work with me during partner shit, but hey - They left me alone. A lot of people thought I was kinda cool for it, so I didn't get much shit from anyone except this one preppy bitch who I hope is either a whore, pregnant, or a pregnant whore.

I got my revenge, though! Last year when I was working at a retail store, I saw 2 or 3 of the girls who were cunts to me in HS - ALL PREGNANT. And they're only like 20 or so now. Preppy cunts.

i was bullied in for a year in elementary school... and middle school... i wasn't a quite approachable person... so they made fun of me... and matters don't help when your last name is "Put" yeah.. it's weird.. but i've never seen a bullying case that went so wrong, someone suicided.. i've heard but never seen...

Welllll lemme go from example here.

I was bullied all the way up until 9th grade. In elementary school i was bullied because i developed early and was chasing girls already in kindergarten, then it morphed into bulling me because i was the smartest in my class, then it turned into bulling me because i was scrawny, then finally i was being bullied for having no real friends from k-7 and being slightly naive because ... well .. i didn't have anyone to teach me dirty words :{P

But being bullied opened my eyes in some aspects, it turned me to the computer and video games. I was dead set on getting recognition from my video game skillz or something, but my mother took those away from me. So I picked up guitar and joined a band, they knew i didn't know anything about the guitar and tried to teach me, I was slowly learning but they eventually bullied me out of the band because i didn't want to play infront of people yet (We only learned one song, the beginning to "Can't get no satisfaction"

After 9th grade i was sick of it tho, i got a hell of alot better at guitar, forced myself to try to make friends, and actually had a gf. I kinda fell into the "goth-nerd" scene and scaring all the people that bullied me. I didn't get any stronger, i just learned how to fuck with peoples heads.


But in the end i gotta say, being bullied made me alot of things, It made me become a nice person because i didn't want to be like them (or my father, bastard left when i was 3), but i also became slightly emotionless and detached from everyone. I'll sit in a public place and wonder how they can go about their daily life's the way they do, i'd rather just lay in bed with a laptop and do shit on there away from everyone.

Can't complain tho, i'm going into a computer field of work and going to be making 6 figures after 5 yrs ^.^

same here...

Well, I was bullied a lot through my elementary and middle school years, mostly because I had no real shame in my actions. For example, I picked my nose in the middle of class with no real discrepancy about it. In that sense, I guess you could say I had it coming.

REGARDLESS

I guess I believe bullying has changed me. Instead of making me hard and mean and stuff, it made me lighthearted and self-abusing. I made fun of MYSELF a lot... so I guess even after the bullying stopped, people never stopped picking on me... most notably because I was picking on myself. I guess in my mind I chose the "if you cant beat em, join em route."

So yeah, bullying sucks. But its a part of life. It happens or it dosn't, and if it does happen you best learn to live with it.

thanks!

It' weird I never really got bullied before even though growing up I was a wimpy nerd that was like only 5 feet tall. I never told people in school I did martial arts because it always makes people want to step up and mess with me, good thing I could calmly scare them off.

Anyways back in my senior year of high school this retarded, big, black dude. I'm not saying all black people are retarded but this guy clearly was. he was like brick to the head stupid. He was always talking shit to me but I was more than smart enough to talk shit back to him. One day we had a debate and he used this long text book question that made no sense and I just asked him back, "I have no idea what you just said, would you mind saying that in your own words?"
He just sat there like a chump with the whole class laughing at him. And then he stopped bothering me entirely.

Maybe the times I was being bullied I never considered I was actually being bullied because I did not think of them as a threat to me at all. I'm still introverted with barely any friends and I hate going outside. But honestly I think that is me personally and who I am.

I never had bully problems until 7th grade, name calling didn't bother me I just laughed it off. In 8th grade it got physical, so I got into fights but after that people left me alone. Then High School was another story, huge school so no one knew me. 9th grade I managed to not bring attention to myself, but 10th-11th was a pain, even after getting into fights people still wanted to talk trash. 12th grade I only had 2 classes so I was never at school.

Anywho, I think bullying is bad (whilst teasing is fine by me), I was able to take it and prevent it a lot. But the first time I was bullied was a shock to me, and made me feel socially awkward / depressed and alone. Sure it can make you stand up for yourself, but that doesn't fix emotional scars.

Also I've seen some terribad bullying in High School, kid that was bullied brought a gun and all. So yeah, if anything it's bad because innocent bystanders might get shot by an unstable kid.