sf > wrote:

>On Mon, 26 Nov 2012 15:11:16 -0500, Dave Smith

>> There was a recent case of a girl who was being cyber bullied and ended
>> up killing herself, but not before she made a video about how she was
>> being bullied. Heaven forbid that she could have simply stopped going
>> online, stopped making a public spectacle of herself, stop reacting to
>> the "bullies" . There are so many of them on the net that as soon as one
>> stops being a willing victim another will take her place.

>I still don't understand that one. It was Facebook, a site where you
>can do a lot to protect yourself.
>http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...-pictures.html
>
>Why didn't she use FB's private chat function on the night in
>question? Where her posts Public? Change the setting (no Friends of
>Friends either). Why didn't she create lists of "Friends" and use the
>Block ability so that cyberbullies wouldn't see her and best of all,
>she wouldn't see them?

I think what is misleading about the Amanda Todd case is the buzzword
"cyberbullying". I think it is more accurate to say Todd was being stalked.
At least two older men went after her. She was then later bullied, but
it was not just "cyber-bullying", it was real-life bullying, including
being assaulted.

In any case, it was much more than a case of online bullying, and
is extremely tragic.


Steve