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Re:Treating bullying as everyone's problem reduces incidence... by khazhoux on Saturday November 16, 2024 @07:40PM (#42160929)
It really seems you have not seen the way kids bully each other these days. Example: two kids were friends a year ago shared a lot of personal thoughts with each other. Now guess what? That was all recorded, because it was all in chat. Fast-forward a year later and one kid absolutely humiliates the other by posting the private chats in a group setting. How the hell could that have ever happened in the past?

Same with recording silly videos or taking photos of themselves to share with friends. When the relationship turns sour, that is raw material to humiliate the other.

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Re:Treating bullying as everyone's problem reduces incidence... by thaumasiotes on Sunday November 17, 2024 @01:33AM (#42162388)
> Fast-forward a year later and one kid absolutely humiliates the other by posting the private chats in a group setting. How the hell could that have ever happened in the past?

Simple; the one kid tells everyone what the other kid said.

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Re:Treating bullying as everyone's problem reduces incidence... by ben_w on Sunday November 17, 2024 @04:04AM (#42162947)
Human memory isn't photographic.

Memories are biased such that we mostly don't remember the bad things our friends have said, we mainly remember the good. And the inverse for our enemies.

When you change from one to the other, what didn't pass into long term memory can't just come back.

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Re:Treating bullying as everyone's problem reduces incidence... by khazhoux on Sunday November 17, 2024 @04:38AM (#42163085)
Not the same at all. Yes, that is a form of bullying, but it’s not nearly the same as having their own words, shared in confidence, blasted out to their peer group.

But honestly, I can see you are fully committed to the premise that “things are exactly the same now as before” and so this discussion is pointless.

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