Has social media made bullying worse

Bullying has always been a problem but has it just gotten worse with social media?

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  • Kermitthehog

    By the very nature of availability of the internet and anonymity it would be impossible for it not to.

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  • litelander8

    We should definitely bring full contact bullying back.

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    • ObamaIfHeWasBlack

      Bullying was intended to be a contact sport

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    • Wow3986

      Are you saying you want people to commit suicide?

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      • litelander8

        Yes

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        • Wow3986

          You subhuman piece of shit. Let me guess you also encourage self-harm?

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          • litelander8

            Only for you 🤪

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  • BleedingPain

    One leads to psychological damage, the other leads to physical AND psychological damage. Both are aggressive and neither are good when the outcome is suicide.

    I think social media bullying seems worse because we hear more about “X killing them selves over social media trolls” nowadays

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  • Tommythecaty

    Of course it has.

    The teen suicide rate is far higher now than it was when I was a teenager. The rise occurred directly with the advancement of social media.

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    • ospry

      Higher standards of living also contribute to it, ironically. The suicide rate among youth in impoverished countries is dwarfed by that of youth in wealthy nations

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      • Tommythecaty

        Didn’t know that. Though I’d have to wonder how good record keeping is in impoverished nations regarding those stats.

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        • ospry

          There have been studies done on it. There's strong evidence that shows the harder it is to survive on a day-to-day basis, the less inclined you are to give up

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          • Tommythecaty

            Most fascinating.

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            • ospry

              Here it is! I found the source I was thinking of. It's interesting because impoverished countries make the top and bottom of the list, sandwiching wealthier countries

              https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/suicide-rate-by-country

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    • That's soo sad

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  • Tinybird

    Yes. I have been bullied horrifically online. I wish social media never existed.

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    • ObamaIfHeWasBlack

      ...she says on social media

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      • Tinybird

        here it's different, because it is anonymous.

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  • Meatballsandwich

    Absolutely, that is why you have so many school-shootings nowadays.

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    • notmyrealname123

      you missed the
      In America
      part

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    • Scary but true

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  • bbrown95

    I think people can be harsher to each other online than in real life because they don't have to say it to that person's face, nor face consequences for doing so (besides maybe being blocked, banned, or having authorities get involved if they do something illegal), and I think some people sort of forget the fact that there's another human being with feelings at the other end of the line.

    When I was a senior in high school, Ask.fm was huge and there was also an "anonymous" Twitter page for our school ran by a student in which other students submitted in nasty rumors via private message, which were subsequently posted onto the page to keep the original sender's anonymity. The anonymous factor absolutely made people much more bold and harsh, and there was a lot of drama and very hurt feelings from those sites that year.

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  • notmyrealname123

    why you think people on the internet are so concerned about privacy? their all secretly bullies online and they know they dont want their online reputation mixing with their fake reputation IRL

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  • Holzman_67

    Yeah I think so. I was bullied in high school, and at the time there was only Nokia brick phones, you could come home and have peace and sanctuary (except on occasion when you were followed or chased)
    Now it’s non stop from all sides. And on a platform many look to for self validation and gratification, in the most impressionable time of their lives.
    Feel so sorry for the bullied youth of today.

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  • 1WeirdGuy

    The biggest problem with the internet is anonymity. There's things people say to others on the internet they wouldnt dare say to ppl in person for fear of possible violence.

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  • PurpleHoneycomb

    Yes and no.

    Physical bullying hasn't really been a thing for ages. It wasn't around when I was in school anyways. The usage of cameras throughout school buildings pretty heavily cut back on that side of the bullying.

    Mental bullying has definitely gotten worse. Public and privaye humiliation is easier when you don't have to actually say the things to their face.

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    • Anonnet

      When did you go to school? It was definitely a thing when I was in school, they just usually didn't do it inside the school building. It was at bus stops, on buses, in bathrooms, on playgrounds (in earlier grades) and after school. Occasionally it would still happen inside the school since the kid only got suspension for it if he was caught and sometimes, due to how crowded the halls are between classes, they weren't caught.

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      • PurpleHoneycomb

        I graduated in 2019. I'm incredibly young compared to the average user of this site. Most of the physical bullying stopped once I got to highschool and they began enforcing rules about it. By the time I graduated, the locker room was the only place it could occur. Even the outside of the school had cameras.

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