2012-10-14, 04:43 PM
byakugan Wrote:To people saying previous generations were bullied and still were able to get through life while current generations are stupid for not being able, I got 2 words: The internet. Even if stuff like social networks and chat apps already existed 10 years ago, its integration to society nor its relevance were as big as today. Media in general sets in people's minds standards or models to what society and its members should be like, then when someone derails from those models they get criticized. Now the internet amplifies that criticism by a thousand by making it able to reach much more people and get all kind of feedback without any regulation or repercussion. The interned is a two-edged sword for many things.
As stated by several people in this thread- social media sites have the option of blocking people. You can very easily anonymously search around on the internet and enjoy what it has to offer without being on facebook trying to get attention. If you MUST be logged in to some social site, you can easily block the people abusing you. The internet is full of trolls and people that act up because you cannot physically see them, thus it can be a harsh place. If you go on social media sites looking for attention and sympathy, you are really asking for some s'hit.
byakugan Wrote:While I'm not gonna discuss wether she is guilty or not of commiting a mistake and/or paid the price for it, I consider the ultimate conclusion to this should be it is pretty sad she wasn't able to reach the right solutions in time. Everyone commits mistakes, but that doesn't mean we should put a label on those that did wrong and ditch them out of society forever. If they can prove they have learned from their mistakes and can move forward, their past shouldn't matter anymore, and I think that what was missing for this girl was someone to teach her that. I believe it is obvious from the fact her parents are divorced and that she barely mentioned him in her video that he was not there for her.
I don't know to the extent of which she tried to get professional help, but from what I read it seemed there were some mild attempts. Society did not "ditch" her, but her continual decision to make bad decisions without evaluating the consequences put her in continually worse situations. She really isn't the victim as much as the media is portraying her to be. Bullying is a terrible thing, but if you are giving people reasons to bully you, it becomes a lot harder to move past it.
Also, I don't know how much her parents were there for her, but I know her Dad did take her to the hospital when she drank the bleach and also found her after she was beat up and took her home. At the very least, it doesn't seem that he was completely negligent. Past that, it seems unreasonable to blame her parents for her decisions. I know plently of people with divorced parents and they certainly are not making choices like these.