First of all I don't condone bullying of any kind an to me every bully be it the schoolyard bully, the work bully or online bully are all puny little shrimp dikeed people who are afraid off been forgotten so they bully as a way of been in the spotlight.

Now that's said an done.

What do each of you consider to be bullying?

Now personally I've been called freak, fat bastard, loser an a lot more that would just be censored. Hell I've even been called a certain P word by a stupid little girl who had a crush that I didn't return.

An I know that online once rumours like that start flying around then the name calling an other forms of bullying really heat up.

Now to me I don't care what people call me or what lies people spread about me an their are some weird an flat out hilarious lies that have been spread about me over the years, To the extent that I've pretty much gone through every type of bullying you could think off.

An today bullying don't effect me but of course when I was younger some things did effect me, Which was a bad idea for the bullies as one lucky to still be alive bully found out after the 4 years of constant bullying made the volcano erupt more violently then Santorini an Krakotoa combined.

Ok enough of my rambling so which off you have gone through the same as me but have come through it a better person.

Real bullying I could consider a problem in a lot of situations, it shouldn't be dealt with lightly.

Online bullying is just sad to me for both sides.

First are the ones who are bullying, and that in its right is pretty sad, especially when done from the protection of your computer screen. Then there is the one being bullied who has many possibilities to shut down the bullying from online such as getting offline when said bully is on, or blocking their communication with you through facebook or twitter or whatever. Too many times have I seen "kid harassed through Facebook" then realizing that they could have made their profile private and blocked the bully's profile.

Now when it is done to spread rumors or some such thing, then I don't really know, because to me that seems like it could affect you or it wouldn't really.

Facebook an bullying seem to go hand in hand with each other.

Theirs been times when my cousin was getting called [censored], [censored] an [censored] by people she thought were friends all caused by a stupid rumour too.

An I'd tell her just block them or go offline but nope she would just argue back the amount of times I stepped in an as politely as I could told them all to f off an grow up came to the point were I blocked my cousin cause I couldn't be arsed reading about the next stupid fight.

That is what I don't understand, why people think they can win a fight over something like facebook.

Actually I do think I remember reading that a lot of people have the mindset that the Internet is one single entity so while it seems like the bullying is coming from one source it is still a real possibility that it is multiple people who are doing it and the victim just doesn't get it.

I don't know, I guess the Internet just makes people feel more powerful than they are because there aren't as many bodily limitations.

It probably won't help anyone, but usually in my situations I found that hilarity always seemed to ease tensions down, whether it was awkward or anger.

I know but the world is full of stupid people even the victims of bullying.

Another form of bullying I don't get is bullying over voice or chat when playing games or having your avatars ganked in WoW a n other mmo`s.

It's a bloody game why bully a virtual character it's like me hitting a book on the wall hoping it will kill the bad guy.

What really angers me is the amount of teen suicides that happen an the bullies get away with It.

Well. I've been bullied a lot but luckily, I lived in the country area where the people who do bully are the ignorant country folk that think they are awesome with their big tractors and such... XD. (Not being bias or anything. I know a lot of cool and awesome country folks). So I got lucky with none of them causing internet issue...

But anyways to me... Bullying is basicly where someone is harming another mentally or physically in one way or another...

As for internet bullies, the majority of the time you would be okay and can easily "ignore" or "block"... But you might have issues where the bully might know your cellphone/email/etc and could easily cause issues... Like I remember this one episode of CSI (Or was it a NCIS episode?) where this girl actually committed suicide because she was getting hate texts, emails, etc by the thousands from people she didn't knew... What happened? Some bratty cheerleaders thought if would be fun to post extremely bad and false rumors about her (Actually bad pictures/videos on a website that they apparently made just to do this to the victim. Wont go into detail! Pretty bad) then give everybody her email+phone and such via de' site... (Normally, the only way a bully would get your phone or email is if they use to be your friend or you have specific settings on public). Note: The cheerleaders ended up getting arrested for assistance murder or something like that which made me smile.

Online bullying is still bullying. But online you have more power than the bullies, and if you can't deal with them (using the block/unfriend/report button) then it's largely your own fault.