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By *isscheekychops OP   Woman
over a year ago

The land of grey peas and bacon

I guess we all have to stop and think what comments we make in life can have such an impact on someone...

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By *ombowieMan
over a year ago

Edinburgh


"I guess we all have to stop and think what comments we make in life can have such an impact on someone..."
very deep but yer no wrong

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Very true and how alone and helpless some bullying can make a person feel

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By *iewMan
Forum Mod
over a year ago

Angus & Findhorn

that was a moving clip... poor lad

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

buncho twats man up lol x

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

When posting I think if I couldn't say it looking into that person's eyes I won't say it at all

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By *innamon!Woman
over a year ago

no matter

What have I missed ..

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By *isscheekychops OP   Woman
over a year ago

The land of grey peas and bacon


"What have I missed .."

It was a clip on comic relief. It just got me thinking

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Oh god, I'm in floods of tears. How awful

Bullying is terrible, cyber bullying is the worst

It's easy to hide behind a keyboard!!!!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

That's story was so sad such a waste of a good life

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"What have I missed .."

just realized iot was in connection with something else...

I made a joke not knowing what it was about lol...assuming its comic relief

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Talented young man by the sound of it

His poor family

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"When posting I think if I couldn't say it looking into that person's eyes I won't say it at all "

I agree totally, there is some nasty vindictive people in this world x

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Oh god, I'm in floods of tears. How awful

Bullying is terrible, cyber bullying is the worst

It's easy to hide behind a keyboard!!!!! "

Am I missing the point of cyber bullying? I cant see how its worse, its much easier to turn a PC off than walk away from someone surely?

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By *woofuslondonCouple
over a year ago

london

Totally agree sadly even on here a minority think its acceptable, I deplore bullying of any nature.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I lost a friend to suicide & there's nothing more painful for the family & friends involved

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

some can only when not face to face on a pc the net and feel powerful with words and know thay can cut like knifes ....... its sad but true some get off on this and are cowards really .

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Oh god, I'm in floods of tears. How awful

Bullying is terrible, cyber bullying is the worst

It's easy to hide behind a keyboard!!!!!

Am I missing the point of cyber bullying? I cant see how its worse, its much easier to turn a PC off than walk away from someone surely?"

I was just about to post the same thing!

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By *isscheekychops OP   Woman
over a year ago

The land of grey peas and bacon


"Oh god, I'm in floods of tears. How awful

Bullying is terrible, cyber bullying is the worst

It's easy to hide behind a keyboard!!!!!

Am I missing the point of cyber bullying? I cant see how its worse, its much easier to turn a PC off than walk away from someone surely?"

I was thinking the same but I just people think it will go away and why should they walk away....the bullies should be the ones to stop.....

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"that was a moving clip... poor lad"

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Oh god, I'm in floods of tears. How awful

Bullying is terrible, cyber bullying is the worst

It's easy to hide behind a keyboard!!!!!

Am I missing the point of cyber bullying? I cant see how its worse, its much easier to turn a PC off than walk away from someone surely?"

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

You really don't realise the extent or impact until you hear tragic stories

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Oh god, I'm in floods of tears. How awful

Bullying is terrible, cyber bullying is the worst

It's easy to hide behind a keyboard!!!!!

Am I missing the point of cyber bullying? I cant see how its worse, its much easier to turn a PC off than walk away from someone surely?

I was just about to post the same thing!"

Think how often you are on here. It's addictive right? Now imagine u are teenage kid, insecure, unsure of yourself and life, switch the pic off sure but in your head its still there

If I was a teenager these days I'd struggle. I hated the negative comments I got at school and i didn't get that many. Imagine that emailed across the Internet for all of your peers to see..... Instead of Chinese whispers at the back of your class to 20 kids its a million times worse

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By *iewMan
Forum Mod
over a year ago

Angus & Findhorn

nearly £4m from the staff and customer of TK Maxx

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By *iewMan
Forum Mod
over a year ago

Angus & Findhorn

customers

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By *ady4ladyWoman
over a year ago

liverpool


"Totally agree sadly even on here a minority think its acceptable, I deplore bullying of any nature."

Does it really happen on here???? Ive not seen anything.?

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By *nvictusMan
over a year ago

Beeston

I know kids that have been bullied by a bombardment of text messages from a group of bullies. Truly horrible thing for a young mind to have to deal with

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Totally agree sadly even on here a minority think its acceptable, I deplore bullying of any nature.

Does it really happen on here???? Ive not seen anything.?"

I've seen nasty comments very occasionally - I think sometimes done to deliberately be provocative by people who just don't know how to contribute to a debate

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I know kids that have been bullied by a bombardment of text messages from a group of bullies. Truly horrible thing for a young mind to have to deal with "

This upsets me so much

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By *am123Man
over a year ago

essex chelmsford


"Oh god, I'm in floods of tears. How awful

Bullying is terrible, cyber bullying is the worst

It's easy to hide behind a keyboard!!!!! "
isnt it just as easy to switch it off

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By *nvictusMan
over a year ago

Beeston


"Totally agree sadly even on here a minority think its acceptable, I deplore bullying of any nature.

Does it really happen on here???? Ive not seen anything.?

I've seen nasty comments very occasionally - I think sometimes done to deliberately be provocative by people who just don't know how to contribute to a debate "

The odd comment slips through at times, but it doesn't happen on here in any sustained manner as is the case for the kids shown on the program. Totally different.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Oh god, I'm in floods of tears. How awful

Bullying is terrible, cyber bullying is the worst

It's easy to hide behind a keyboard!!!!!

Am I missing the point of cyber bullying? I cant see how its worse, its much easier to turn a PC off than walk away from someone surely?

I was just about to post the same thing!

Think how often you are on here. It's addictive right? Now imagine u are teenage kid, insecure, unsure of yourself and life, switch the pic off sure but in your head its still there

If I was a teenager these days I'd struggle. I hated the negative comments I got at school and i didn't get that many. Imagine that emailed across the Internet for all of your peers to see..... Instead of Chinese whispers at the back of your class to 20 kids its a million times worse

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But all it takes is one. One person to ruin another's life through bullying. It doesn't take a million. Or even a few. Just one.

IRL doesn't have that off switch - or the audit trail that mean you can reach out and show someone and get help.

I don't want to take anything away from cyber-bullying - I've seen bulling from both perspectives and the devastation it causes.

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By *iewMan
Forum Mod
over a year ago

Angus & Findhorn


"Oh god, I'm in floods of tears. How awful

Bullying is terrible, cyber bullying is the worst

It's easy to hide behind a keyboard!!!!! isnt it just as easy to switch it off "

sure but for many kids... they switch the keyboard off, their phones and hide on the way home to try and get that day over with....

until the next one

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Totally agree sadly even on here a minority think its acceptable, I deplore bullying of any nature.

Does it really happen on here???? Ive not seen anything.?

I've seen nasty comments very occasionally - I think sometimes done to deliberately be provocative by people who just don't know how to contribute to a debate "

I wonder if people get bored and think I know! I might go into the Forums and find a few threads I can add a few nasty comments on to stir things up

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By *nvictusMan
over a year ago

Beeston


"I know kids that have been bullied by a bombardment of text messages from a group of bullies. Truly horrible thing for a young mind to have to deal with

This upsets me so much "

If it helps, on both occasions, their school took a massively proactive role in stamping it out and the two lads I know are now doing great. The best thing they did was ask for help

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Totally agree sadly even on here a minority think its acceptable, I deplore bullying of any nature.

Does it really happen on here???? Ive not seen anything.?

I've seen nasty comments very occasionally - I think sometimes done to deliberately be provocative by people who just don't know how to contribute to a debate

I wonder if people get bored and think I know! I might go into the Forums and find a few threads I can add a few nasty comments on to stir things up "

Thankfully they're quickly told to stop being idiots by other people

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Yes very sad, but know doubt it will happen time and time again

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I think some are getting mixed up with bullying and trolling(dead baby jokes facebook pages for example)

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Totally agree sadly even on here a minority think its acceptable, I deplore bullying of any nature.

Does it really happen on here???? Ive not seen anything.?

I've seen nasty comments very occasionally - I think sometimes done to deliberately be provocative by people who just don't know how to contribute to a debate

I wonder if people get bored and think I know! I might go into the Forums and find a few threads I can add a few nasty comments on to stir things up "
At times i think some do just that .... and thank god for mods or maybe we would get loads of it and spoil this site.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I know kids that have been bullied by a bombardment of text messages from a group of bullies. Truly horrible thing for a young mind to have to deal with

This upsets me so much

If it helps, on both occasions, their school took a massively proactive role in stamping it out and the two lads I know are now doing great. The best thing they did was ask for help "

Hope someone has told them how brave they were asking for help - for them it took lots of courage

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Totally agree sadly even on here a minority think its acceptable, I deplore bullying of any nature.

Does it really happen on here???? Ive not seen anything.?

I've seen nasty comments very occasionally - I think sometimes done to deliberately be provocative by people who just don't know how to contribute to a debate

I wonder if people get bored and think I know! I might go into the Forums and find a few threads I can add a few nasty comments on to stir things up At times i think some do just that .... and thank god for mods or maybe we would get loads of it and spoil this site."

Such a shame Jo I love the Diversity of the forums. serious,caring, sometimes so silly I'm crying with laughter. Let's hope it stays like that xx

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

When you realise just how much of a teenager's life is spent online these days it's very difficult to tell them not to go online for a few hours. To them it is though something extremely important is happening and they'll miss it. My 15y/o daughter has had so many rows with her mum because she turns the internet off at 9pm but my daughter managed to wangle herself a new contract phone with it's own internet access which she piggy backs her Kindle onto and goes online that way. If her mum was to confiscate all her internet-enabled devices she's be walking out of her room with an armful of equipment each evening.

Faced with this sort of barrage of online communication, a parent is fighting a losing battle trying to ensure their kids have quality time offline as well as a safe experience online, and bullies operate where they know they can do it without adults watching over them every second of every day - and even if a parent is diligent and blocks online access for periods at a time, it's very difficult to intercept a malignant message sitting in your child's inbox waiting for them to log on again.

I've said it before that the internet as we know it today is comparable to the Wild West of the 1800s - it is lawless and the more vulnerable among us easily succumb to it. It needs to be policed effectively but that requires all of us who use it giving up some 'freedoms' to ensure everyone is safe.

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By *amschwingerzCouple
over a year ago

West

Bullies are cowards...cyber bullies are bigger cowards, they dont even have to guts to face people when they are picking on them.

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By *isscheekychops OP   Woman
over a year ago

The land of grey peas and bacon


"When you realise just how much of a teenager's life is spent online these days it's very difficult to tell them not to go online for a few hours. To them it is though something extremely important is happening and they'll miss it. My 15y/o daughter has had so many rows with her mum because she turns the internet off at 9pm but my daughter managed to wangle herself a new contract phone with it's own internet access which she piggy backs her Kindle onto and goes online that way. If her mum was to confiscate all her internet-enabled devices she's be walking out of her room with an armful of equipment each evening.

Faced with this sort of barrage of online communication, a parent is fighting a losing battle trying to ensure their kids have quality time offline as well as a safe experience online, and bullies operate where they know they can do it without adults watching over them every second of every day - and even if a parent is diligent and blocks online access for periods at a time, it's very difficult to intercept a malignant message sitting in your child's inbox waiting for them to log on again.

I've said it before that the internet as we know it today is comparable to the Wild West of the 1800s - it is lawless and the more vulnerable among us easily succumb to it. It needs to be policed effectively but that requires all of us who use it giving up some 'freedoms' to ensure everyone is safe."

Wishy I totally agree

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Bullies are cowards...cyber bullies are bigger cowards, they dont even have to guts to face people when they are picking on them."

There are different degrees of online bullying though. There are the trolls who attack anyone regardless of whether they know them, and then there is the bullying that goes on as an extension of something that's happening offline - like in school for example. I think we need an online police force who have the power to block trolls and bullies from going online, and with fixed IP addresses that broadband gives us it's far easier to block someone's internet access than it was in the old dial up days.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"When you realise just how much of a teenager's life is spent online these days it's very difficult to tell them not to go online for a few hours. To them it is though something extremely important is happening and they'll miss it. My 15y/o daughter has had so many rows with her mum because she turns the internet off at 9pm but my daughter managed to wangle herself a new contract phone with it's own internet access which she piggy backs her Kindle onto and goes online that way. If her mum was to confiscate all her internet-enabled devices she's be walking out of her room with an armful of equipment each evening.

Faced with this sort of barrage of online communication, a parent is fighting a losing battle trying to ensure their kids have quality time offline as well as a safe experience online, and bullies operate where they know they can do it without adults watching over them every second of every day - and even if a parent is diligent and blocks online access for periods at a time, it's very difficult to intercept a malignant message sitting in your child's inbox waiting for them to log on again.

I've said it before that the internet as we know it today is comparable to the Wild West of the 1800s - it is lawless and the more vulnerable among us easily succumb to it. It needs to be policed effectively but that requires all of us who use it giving up some 'freedoms' to ensure everyone is safe."

Thank you! You said it much better than I ever could, but it is what I was trying to say

X

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Bullies are cowards...cyber bullies are bigger cowards, they dont even have to guts to face people when they are picking on them.

There are different degrees of online bullying though. There are the trolls who attack anyone regardless of whether they know them, and then there is the bullying that goes on as an extension of something that's happening offline - like in school for example. I think we need an online police force who have the power to block trolls and bullies from going online, and with fixed IP addresses that broadband gives us it's far easier to block someone's internet access than it was in the old dial up days."

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