Cyber Bully?

So as you may have noticed, I don't have a quote today but I have something I'd really like to talk about.

Yesterday some kid at school decided it would be cool to make this Facebook event. Basically, they want all grads to freeze (as in, stop moving) at the first bell "for fun". Now, I thought it was kind of cool and funny. I mean, ALL 300 of us freezing? It was a pretty funny idea. Unfortunately, a friend of mine didn't really like the idea and thought it was pretty stupid. Now, I love him like a brother, but he was pretty stupid in commenting his opinion ON THE EVENT. Clearly his opinion would stir up trouble right?

After a day of his comment fermenting for about a day, people start commenting. I sort of predicted the hate mail. But right now, there are 48 comments on it. 98% of those comments are swearing at him, insulting him and people being complete jerks. This actually really bothers me. He's a pretty good friend of mine, so being a good friend, I stuck up for him. Guess what happened? All the hate turned to ME for defending him. Surprise, surprise. For a while there they even thought he wasn't a "real person" so they decided that it made it okay for them to completely bash this person. Eventually they realized that they in fact DO know him, and sort of apologized.

So let me ask you this, if you "don't know" the person, does that make it OKAY to say hurtful things? In my books, it doesn't, but clearly for them, it's OKAY. Well you know what? It is never, ever okay to be mean to someone. I'm sorry but I know he was a bit out of line saying what he said, but that DOES NOT make what they did okay. They just all ganged up on him because his opinion wasn't the same as theirs. Which, in my books, is so not okay. People shouldn't spend their wednesday nights ganging up on other people and being mean. Half these people probably have homework to do, or some form of catching up because they are all failing at school. But instead what do they do? They all gang up on this one guy.

I'm very certain that if he would have said it out loud to peoples faces, they wouldn't be able to say HALF the things that they said. It's like the internet, facebook and cellphones make it easier to put each other down. Facebook used to be somewhere to keep your friends updated on what you're doing and putting funny pics up of you and your friends. Now? It's just a bunch of people insulting each other because they happen to have different opinions.

God I hate high school....


Peace&Love

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