(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); As many of us know the teenager Phoebe Prince was bullied to death.
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For those that do know I would just like to say she is a noob. My school spent 2 periods explaining how Facebook and such had added to her being pushed to suicide by flaming of her Facebook.
For many with a facebook I am sure you all know of the magical, Delete, Report, and Block buttons. As with any other web page there are measures to prevent this. My school had specifically designated how Social Networking sites were bad.
Lets put it this way for all the girls on NGU. If someone calles you a whore/ho/slut/etc would you commit suicide or would you contact a mod and have the SOB deleted? Common sense
She could have easily deleted, blocked, or reported the people but was too worried about "loss of friend count"
Then parents hear this on the news and they freak out. There are ways around bullying. You have to be very shallow to let someone calling you a name dig into you that much. ie) some one calles you a ho. honestly i think you would know if you were a slut or not. I just think people are over reacting to the case because bullying is a part of life. There will always be people who are looked down on. How many of you NGU members have flamed someone? called them a noob or said they were trolling? How many of you members have been called a noob? lost rep? or have been flamed before? YOU MOVE ON. Phoebe Prince could have easily stopped the flaming of her facebook and public schools are big, you can find other friends and you can avoid people.

What are your people's opinion on the suicide/rape/murder case??

I've deleted every post in this thread.

Now, keep the discussion civilised and free of insults, it's not hard.

If the thread ends up like it did before, it will be closed.

Agreed Paul. Remember you all are talking about someones sister, daughter, grand daughter. A human being.

Nobody will know what she went through, I don't think you should call her a "total noob". And plus, she was also constantly picked on at school by everybody, not just on Facebook.

Although I agree with what you saying about the report/block/delete functions on facebook, when a bully really gets in your head it can wreck your confidence for life. In primary school, I was bullied and my confidence greatly suffered from then on. I get really nervous meeting new people and I tend to look down a lot and never talk just out of, well, being scared what people think of me really, I would do anything to get all those attributes back but I just can't. I mean I was too young to even know what suicide was, but if it got it now, I probably would take my life no matter how selfish it is, you are made to feel scum, unwanted, you are made to feel that you are in the wrong.

My primary school was small, to say the least, there was 56 people and 6 of those were in my year. There was really no way of getting out of it for me, but one day I came across a thing called violence, solved everything :p. Punched the main guy who bullied me on the nose, haven't got it since. Seriously nothing gets done, unless YOU get it done.

you know like i can agree that bullying is harsh on people but there must of been something that made her tick aside from the bullying or just tied to it

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same story here but for me it was my brother he made me feel like shit 25/7 it never missed alot of people will say all brothers are like this but this is diffrent.

I posted this already just before everything got deleted so I'll try again.

There seems to be a severe misunderstanding about suicide and depression among certain members here, particularly those who made lewd remarks regarding the girl's dead body.

The thing you have to understand about depression is that someone who is suffering from it does not look at things in what we would consider a rational manner. They don't see suicide as a selfish act, but rather a selfless act. They honestly believe that the people who love them would be better of without them.

A story I heard from the father of a boy who killed himself illustrates it perfectly. The boy tried to commit suicide once, but thankfully was rescued in time. He got some counselling but it wan't enough, he still suffered from depression. Then one night he rang his father and said to him something along the lines of 'a, I feel like I did the night i tried to kill myself, come help me please'. By the time his father got to him, the boy had killed himself.

Depression is scary and a real tragedy, making fun of it is just the lowest of the low.

I'm sorry to hear that,

My friend was bullied in primary school by just one person for just a few days but It stuck with him ever since. He was called chubby, fatty etc you know some stupid, silly names. We told the teachers, So they punished him till he stopped. We tried to comfort him but it had such an effect on him, It ate away at his mind. Do they think I'm fat... 2 years later he stopped eating for a few days. They had to check him into rehab for a while and get him therapy. He's OK today Thankfully. Still a bit shy but healthy.

I can not even imagine how it must feel to be bullied, Even just name calling can eat away at you for a long time.

What phoebe went through was horrific, and the sad thing is that it will happen again...

I would like to thank everyone who voiced an opinion against bullying. Or shared a story of how negative bullying is, Hopefully you've changed someones mind about it. Who knows maybe even stopped a bully.

I posted my opinion on Phoebes death before all the posts got deleted. If this thread is still here in the morning and I feel the urge to post it again I will do so, But for now I bid you adieu

I do not agree with all posts being deleted as mine was a valid point,
if anyone was to insult this girl in any way it is unacceptable, even if you have been through bullying you will never have experienced what she did.
To call her a noob is just sad.

I have to agree bullying at school can get really out of hand exspecially when its a larger school. Kids jump on the band wagon and soon the kid being bullied/made fun of cant go nowhere without someone messing with them

Its the same on the internet only most of the time its some lonely troll picking on the kid and before u know it everyone starts doing it

These kinds of things linger with people throu out there lives and have some very drastic effects on the persons personality

Im not saying Ive never gave bad comments to someone but there is a point u need to stop and think " Should I really be saying this?"