Trolling IRL

[radiojake]

Tristan Barker makes deliberatly provactive and offensive comments to firstly make some genuine points about both social media and the monopolised, traditional tabloid media.

I think in some ways he is a hypocrite because he is using the same medium for attention as the people he lambasts as being attention-seeking, and then TT fulfils his wish by running a story on him. They both feed each other.

I just don't understand why people don't realise that the internet is full of keyboard warrior 'bullies' - Deal with it or don't leave an online social media profile - I have very, very, very little empathy for victims of 'cyber-bullying' - Unlike schoolyard bullying, where you have to attend school, cyber-bully victims can end the entire thing by simply deleting profiles and getting off their computer....seriously

 

[Illinois Nazi]

I just don't understand why people don't realise that the internet is full of keyboard warrior 'bullies' - Deal with it or don't leave an online social media profile - I have very, very, very little empathy for victims of 'cyber-bullying' - Unlike schoolyard bullying, where you have to attend school, cyber-bully victims can end the entire thing by simply deleting profiles and getting off their computer....seriously

That's not true at all. Cyber bullying isn't limited to directly harassing the victim. A lot of it is also about spreading the photos/stories/rumours/whatever around their peer group. Or creating a profile for the victim and using that to pretend to be them. The victim often does not even know what's going on until they get to school and everyone else has seen it.

Take the Amanda Todd case - when she moved towns/schools, her attackers didn't continue harassing her. Instead they spread the story to all the kids at her new school, inciting a whole new set of harassment. That's why she felt there was no escaping it and killed herself. Yes, she started it to some extent with some stupid actions, but if every 13 year old who did something stupid was made to die for it the world would be empty very quickly.

 

[wce4premiership]

With library books, it was way more fun to just get the barcode/scan section out from the book if possible and hide it in someones work, then they can't even find the book and keep getting buzzed for a while as they swear they have nothing.