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The route to bullying.
When I was a lad of maybe 10, there were three of us that walked the approx. klick home from school and in route were confronted by a 12 year old 'Charlie' who delighted in harassing us. He would threaten and chase us and call us names. Threats from a 'big boy' were taken seriously and frightened us.
No thoughts then of 'squealing' to parents or teachers.
There were three potential routes to take home or to school. Easiest was straight through the neighborhood and a field of junk cars, a pond and such. A fun route. The quickest perhaps if not dallying on the R.R. cars or balancing on the rails walking, was straight down the R.R. tracks starting about a couple blocks from school and passing the end of our street. Parents frowned on that.
The longest by about 5 minutes took us to the end of the road and up a hill to the other end of the streets avoiding Charlies end of the street altogether.
Charlie took the neighborhood route.
The track route took us by his street.
So we took the long way round to avoid him. Seemed to make sense and we soon found interests on that choice of an extra 5 minutes.
I have reached an impasse attempting to understand what would drive a victim of Cyber bullying to repeatedly turn on a computer and seek out the sources of personal degradation by bullies, of looking for personal insults and threats usually from unidentified Cyber attackers.
The route to avoid them is there with a flick of a switch.
The route to avoid Cyber bullies is common sense. Don't take the route that leads to that place. Avoid it!
Yet some are apparently addicted to the abuse.
They return to be driven into suicide.
It makes no sense to me, but obviously I'm not a kid/teenager today.
It is so sad.
When I was a lad of maybe 10, there were three of us that walked the approx. klick home from school and in route were confronted by a 12 year old 'Charlie' who delighted in harassing us. He would threaten and chase us and call us names. Threats from a 'big boy' were taken seriously and frightened us.
No thoughts then of 'squealing' to parents or teachers.
There were three potential routes to take home or to school. Easiest was straight through the neighborhood and a field of junk cars, a pond and such. A fun route. The quickest perhaps if not dallying on the R.R. cars or balancing on the rails walking, was straight down the R.R. tracks starting about a couple blocks from school and passing the end of our street. Parents frowned on that.
The longest by about 5 minutes took us to the end of the road and up a hill to the other end of the streets avoiding Charlies end of the street altogether.
Charlie took the neighborhood route.
The track route took us by his street.
So we took the long way round to avoid him. Seemed to make sense and we soon found interests on that choice of an extra 5 minutes.
I have reached an impasse attempting to understand what would drive a victim of Cyber bullying to repeatedly turn on a computer and seek out the sources of personal degradation by bullies, of looking for personal insults and threats usually from unidentified Cyber attackers.
The route to avoid them is there with a flick of a switch.
The route to avoid Cyber bullies is common sense. Don't take the route that leads to that place. Avoid it!
Yet some are apparently addicted to the abuse.
They return to be driven into suicide.
It makes no sense to me, but obviously I'm not a kid/teenager today.
It is so sad.