Cyberbullying on the Internet: Cyber bullies, cyber bullying, flame mail, hate mail

Bully OnLine ^

[EveningStar]

The Internet provides the perfect forum for cyberbullies, individuals whose aim is to gain gratification from the distress caused by provoking and tormenting others. The anonymity, ease of provocation, and almost infinite source of targets means the Internet is full of predators from pedophiles targeting children to serial bullies targeting ... anybody.

Cyberbullies get a perverse sense of satisfaction (called gratification) from sending people flame mail and hate mail. Flame mail is an email whose contents are designed to inflame and enrage. Hate mail is hatred (including prejudice, racism, sexism etc) in an email...

[AppyPappy]

BooHoo.

We have raised a generation of sissies

[dead]

Gayest.
Website.
Ever.

[Old Sarge]

And a generation of predators and identity thieves. They know that you can't stop them.

[EveningStar]

misc ping
SoCal ping

[Dead Corpse]

Sticks and stones may break my bones...

There are a "few" folks that I would really like to have a "chat" with face to face. Other than that...

Get over it...

[BossLady]

I guess they wouldn't like this website....

www.dontdatehimgirl.com

[Always Right]

What kind of a sissy post is this?

[HEY4QDEMS]

[meandog]

PING!

[dirtboy]

I just forward any such mail to their ISP, which is typically a violation of their service agreement. Most of these pinheads don't realize that.

[Brad from Tennessee]

I think cyberbullies are easier to deal with than real bullies. Hit the SPAM key on your e-mail site. Of course whoever wrote this crap doesn't live in the real world.

[EveningStar]

It's not a sissy post. I just thought it would be interesting to flush out the creeps.

[Loud Mime]

How can you get bullied in the internet?

Pathetic!

[HEY4QDEMS]

How can you get bullied in the internet?

If you ask me that one more time, I'm gonna have to hit the "report abuse" link.

[TexasCajun]

Without naming names, is there a such thing as a Freeper Bully?

[SouthernBoyupNorth]

I can't even begin to state how ignorant that web page is.

People need to grow thicker skins and stop being so P.C.

[EveningStar]

I wasn't talking about FR.

[TexasCajun]

You haven't ever been slapped down, ridiculed or flamed for a freeper post?

It happens.

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

Is there a CyberLiarsShouldBeBullied.Com?

[Sonny M]

Dang it, how come there aren't any pro bullying websites/

Its time someone spoke out for bullies everywhere.

[TexasCajun]

"I'm no bully!"

[pillut48]

I tend to speak out with my conservative views on the newsgroups I visit. Some people don't like that.

As a result, I have been signed up for various liberal websites using my original email address in the past--like NARAL, and then I would receive daily updates etc from that disgusting organization. I couldn't unsubscribe from them because the troll who signed me up used a password.

I learned how to use fake emails and mail filters because of that experience. So yes, there are mean bullies on the internet.

[Always Right]

I was being facetious. should have put a smiley face at the end I suppose.

[ChadGore]

Now the worlds smallest.

[ShadowDancer]

You just need to get yourself a guard dog.

[Vision]

[KarlInOhio]

www.dontdatehimgirl.com

Not very useful. I searched for XXX-42 on there and didn't find him.

[Mike Darancette]

Hey kid e-mail me your lunch money or I;ll flame you.

[EveningStar]

Dang it, how come there aren't any pro bullying websites

Did I say there weren't?

[EveningStar]

Not that stupid cat again. :)

[HairOfTheDog]

I know who you mean. They are what they mock.

Many serial bullies are also serial attention-seekers. More than anything else they want attention. It doesn't matter what type of attention they get, positive or negative, as long as they can provoke someone into paying them attention. It's like a 2-year-old child throwing a tantrum to get attention from a parent. The best way to treat bullies is to refuse to respond and to refuse to engage them - which they really hate.

[Bob J]

I've experienced too many cyber bullies on FR to count them. Funny thing, when I eventually met some of them in person, they were generally meek twerps.

They would never say the same things in person they post on the internet. Passive aggressive Chicken shiites.

[EveningStar]

Ah. Somebody gets it.

[Sonny M]

Did I say there weren't?

I'd like to find some, someone needs to speak up for the unsung heros of the playground.

The Bully.

[StarCMC]

They are what they mock.

Hey Hair! Funny how that works isn't it? The cyber bullies don't bother me so much -- they're like a bunch of 2 year olds throwing tantrums. But when they cross over into real life, it's an entirely different matter. And for those who think that doesn't happen, thank your lucky stars that you don't know better!

[Billthedrill]

I've had my little feelers hurt on FR a few times, and it used to happen pretty regularly in the wild old days. You can either shrug it off or you can do as I do - hunt them down like dogs and give them a full magazine of hollowpoints into the torso. I guess there's middle ground but why bother?

[EveningStar]

I don't go there and I hope no one else here does either.

[HairOfTheDog]

when they cross over into real life, it's an entirely different matter.

Couldn't agree more.

[sully777]

[ichabod1]

I don't have a spam key on my keybored.

[Gingersnap]

I see a pretty big difference between being beaten up by a bully and being the target of hostile email or posts.

Adults who get too emotionally invested in this sort of thing need to step back from the computer. Nobody is going stomp on glasses if you ignore an email.

[ichabod1]

As a result, I have been signed up for various liberal websites using my original email address in the past--like NARAL, and then I would receive daily updates etc from that disgusting organization. I couldn't unsubscribe from them because the troll who signed me up used a password.

That is a good one.

[EveningStar]

I just went to the store. I see your sick post is still up.

[detsaoT]

Nobody does "cyberbully" like

[EveningStar]

:D~

[technochick99]

They would never say the same things in person they post on the internet.

LOL. And then there are those of us who are more outspoken in real life.

ES - good post!

[Billthedrill]

I suspect you may be taking yourself a little too seriously. I'm thinking we may have identified part of the problem here.

[EveningStar]

You don't advocate shooting people - even in jest.

[Bob J]

True! But then again, we're right...