well, it's a girl. she's young and in middle school. this is much more vicious than when you're an adult. she's around this stuff 24hrs a day. her parents are taking action, not the little girl. the police and schoolboard can't help them since it's out of their territory and as the story says, the bullies' parents aren't taking it seriously either as the bullying continues. sure, suing seems kind of crazy, but i'm not sure the parents are willing to gamble their daughter's childhood away. for all we know, the girl could be going into some deep depression that will scar her the rest of her life and might not be able to function socially in a normal way. suing seemed to be the only way facebook intervened and took down the account. maybe the bullies' parents will take it seriously too. just remember that bullying isn't the same as when we were kids. bullying doesn't just happen during school for these kids anymore.
I guess that's true. I'm so old, internet access at home was a novel concept when I was in school, and resolving an issue with a bully was usually just a matter of standing up to them, and maybe knocking their teeth in after school if it came to that. I guess it's hard for me to relate to cyberbullying. I just don't take anything posted online that seriously. And I certainly don't take it seriously enough to file a lawsuit.
i'm not saying you're wrong there either. i would be interested to see what would happened if the girl got in an old fashioned fisticuff showdown with her bullies.
bfun sounds like the type of kid who would have ended up on some watch list for inappropriately staring at people and writing creepy poetry.
I don't think monkey was ever bullied at school. He was probably too busy punching bullies in the face, because that's what men do.
This guy knows what I'm talking about. Kids these days are all pussies, wimps, and fags. I should teach a class called "how to be a real man."
Now that's deserving of bullying. On a related topic is anyone interested in that documentary about bullying? I think it's just called bully. It was going to be rated M but the makers wanted parents and children to see it so they were told if they cut a couple of FUCKs out of it they would get a PG13 rating, there's still several FUCKs in there though. I can imagine monkey watching it screaming at the cinema screen "Oh my God what a fag! Just punch the guy in the face problem solved forever!"
One of my least favourite jobs today, laptop screen replacement. This one was a HP Pavilion G61 and to get the screen off I had to take the whole thing apart as they put 2 screws near the hinge. I have screws everywhere and remembering where they all go is going to be fun. Damned expensive screen too, £75 for the part which should arrive tomorrow. Considering they start at £40 I was hoping she would say don't bother but seeing as it is only 16 months old they want it repaired... Sometimes I hate working with laptops as you always fear that something is going to go wrong in the 24 hours before the part arrives. This thing is sitting in pieces on one of my shelves and until tomorrow I will have no idea if it will still work when I put it all back together. I tend to attach the screen and then power it up while it is still in pieces to see if it works. At least then if it doesn't come on when it is back together I know I have dislodged something.
I always take the screen out first to check the model number and version as if it doesn't work ebay sellers say its your fault. I have put the screws in different labelled envelopes describing what they do.
@grim I had to replace the screen in my wife's laptop after she dropped it and that was kind of a trainwreck. So many little screws and so much cheap plastic that doesn't always go back together nicely. I put it back together and it works perfectly but I hated every minute of it. Even worse was my sister in law's Lenovo Ideapad which had bad hinges. You had to take THE ENTIRE laptop apart just to get to the fucking hinges, one of the most commonly replaced things in a laptop. I'd like to kick whoever designed that square in the balls. You'll probably also come to the conclusion after you take a few them apart that the build quality on most laptops is fucking terrible, which is kind of a travesty considering what they cost. Everything in them is flimsy and seems like it was never designed to be touched by human hands. Always put a blanket under it while you're working, or you'll have lots of little screws and plastic pieces of shit landing on the floor never to be found again. I hate working on laptops with a passion and it's something I'll only do for family members.
Which is why I pretty much only buy the $300 disposable laptop. I spent more than that on my Lenova but I'm hoping it last at least 3 years.