Two nights ago, whilst partaking in my usual night time activity of sharing my every waking thought with my Twitter followers (eg. “Also, can @kanyewest stop shouting at me? My Twitter feed is full of his capital letters.”) I came across something far more disturbing that Kanye.
A Tweet from the lovely Sam Frost.
To the fake accounts heavily trolling me online & into my personal life. If you wanted to break me.. Congratulations you have won. #broken ????
— Sam Frost (@Sam_Frost) July 4, 2016
Alarms bells went off in my head almost immediately. You see, Sam’s tweet was scarily similar to Charlotte Dawson’s tweets in the time leading up to her death back in 2014.
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Taking to heart comments from total randoms, complete strangers, or even people who think they have somehow summed you up with the very controlled public persona you put out on social media is giving your power to them. And something you do have control over.
'It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.' Epictetus
Can't you make like an incarnation and after you've said the magic words, push the magic button (delete) and poof, they're gone!
I agree with what you say but what about the people who can't or at least can't all the time? It does affect them! It's like the bullies get off scott free and the bullied have to find ways to deal with it.
Its sad, scary and just not ok!
Sometimes and for some people it is not that simple. I am a super sensitive person and have been bullied since kindergarten by people close to me and those who don't know me and regardless of all rational thinking in that they don't know me, it says more about them than me etc etc it still hurts. Especially if you have multiple people saying it day after day and I am lucky enough that no one has told me that I should/ deserve to die. But if someone was to it would be rock bottom. There has been so many studies on the impact bullying can have on a person. If you can react the way that you say then all power to you but for some it isn't as easy as what you describe. Those people who do it should be held to account.
Good on you Tully for speaking out about it.
Mon, I am so sorry that you have been unjustifiably attacked in the manner which you describe. And I am sorry that it has hurt you so much. Truly. The eloquent way in which you have articulated your pain speaks volumes about your beautiful, gentle soul.
I was in no way trying to belittle the hurt that can and is caused by these cowards. I was, in a very clumsy way attempting to empower the target of these trolls because if we can't control the pathetic behaviour of losers, we need to try and garner the power we do have.
I agree, it's not okay for bullies to get away with it but there doesn't seem to be a solution. At least, not in the foreseeable future. I'm concerned that conceding defeat is only further empowering the bully.
These people writing these obscenities need to be prosecuted, if there is no law covering it, we need to enact one now! You do they think they are pushing vulnerable people to misery.
There is a law : 's.474.17 Criminal Code – using a carriage service to menace, harass or cause offence'. That guy who posted those offensive comments about Nova Peris has just been prosecuted for it - 8 month suspended sentence.
i so agree. Should we as a community allow people to treat others like this, at home or publicly. Its like emotional abuse in domestic violence cases. We don't say to them oh, just ignore it, that's the way it is. No, it's unacceptable.
There is, it's just not taken that seriously.