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Post by spindrift1 on Dec 15, 2013 21:47:25 GMT
It should, by now, be generally known that Internet Harassment is as easily punished as any other harassment. Indeed, knowing something about it and reading the news, it seems that a person can be committed to jail if warning by the police has been given.
What would you do if someone harassed you?
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Post by Deleted on Dec 15, 2013 21:49:18 GMT
I'm sure it is not as much as a problem for men, but I would not hesitate to file a complaint if it was a problem.
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Post by spindrift1 on Dec 15, 2013 21:51:08 GMT
I agree.
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Post by rikita on Jan 3, 2014 23:20:07 GMT
i would suppose it would all depend on the how and who and where. i'd say i'd file a complaint, but i am sure there are a lot of contexts where people don't do that either because they don't want it to be known they got themselves into whatever situation, or because they are scared or embarrassed or whatever.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 3, 2014 23:50:43 GMT
Since this subject came up, I was harrassed on two other websites and I just ignored it. The offending items were quickly deleted.
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Post by mich64 on Jan 4, 2014 1:54:12 GMT
It would depend on the situation and the severity of the harassment. However, I think ignoring and not acknowledging the behaviour can work. Once bullies are ignored long enough they get bored. That being said I would not want them being able to move on to someone else but there is only so much in your control.
Words from another can only hurt you if you let them.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 4, 2014 4:40:57 GMT
I wasn't sure if I wanted to make a comment on here, but I guess I will.
Words from another can only hurt you if you let them.
Exactly.
Unfortunately, just like in the school ground, I think everyone has been cyber-bullied at one time or another. Me included. On another forum someone made up names and pretended to be me, putting messages up on the site, just so in order that their on-line friends could chip in and all could bully. It's cowardice of course. And like most bullies they work in groups. Alone they are nothing.
I tend to stand up for the underdog and for what I believe in, whether it's popular or not and I speak my mind, for that I have often been the target of bullies. Oh well, so be it. I just can't be bothered any more. I'd rather be 'me' and real instead of some butt kissing phony.
What IS internet harassment exactly? Is it one PM to someone saying how you really feel about what they have done or are doing? Is that harassment or just something that they don't want to hear, even though they should. That's not what I call harassment. To 'harress' is to continuously abuse someone, something that carries on for a long long time.
Is there a difference between harassment and abuse? To abuse is ostracizing and excluding one single person while including all others, especially if for no reason at all. That's incredibly hurtful. Abuse is setting up a campaign against one person and trying to turn others against him or her. Abuse is making fun of and putting down someone. Abuse is taking personal information you might have gained about someone and spreading it around with mis-truths. Abuse is getting others to gang up against someone.
I think I said on the 'interview the person below you' thread and I repeat, bullies are cowards and dark unhappy souls. Venting out on usually the nicest people on the internet, because they are the easiest targets, all born out of envy, maybe for having something they don't have, but want. Whatever that may be.
Like Kerouac said if you can ignore them, then that is the best way to go. They thrive on attention and once that is taken away, hopefully they will just disappear.
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