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Cyberbullying: Have you become a victim or a bully yourself?
By ryueneral
@ryueneral (85)
Philippines
August 10, 2011 7:42am CST
The recent instance of Cyberbullying is about a Filipino guy, who for some reason blamed everyone else but himself after driving his car unto a flooded street. His car, as expected, floated in the current. Despite being rescued by the people nearby, the guy chose to blame others for his mistakes.
After all that happened was featured in a TV news program, the guy received a lot of criticisms online. He became a trending topic on Twitter and a bunch of Faceboook HATE pages were set up to ridicule the man and his "arrogance".
My initial reaction to his situation was join the crowd and laugh at him. He was stupid and arrogant. It was all his fault but he blamed everyone else. So does he deserve being bullied online?
Have you become part or a victim of bullying online? I can't imagine how horrible it must be to be made fun of on the world wide web. What do you think?
7 responses
@toniganzon (72279)
• Philippines
11 Aug 11
I have not experienced being bullied nor have i bullied somebody online.
I saw that person and because he comes from a konyo university, doesn't mean he's perfect. He was so stupid. I drive a car myself and i there's flood around me as well except where i live but i would never drive my car into a flood obviously for the reason that i don't want my car's engine to stop. It's your own risk and you don't blame others for that because you have your own eyes.
He should have regretted what he have said by now and i bet his own school criticize him for being so stupid!
@toniganzon (72279)
• Philippines
11 Aug 11
@enigma FYI I am a graduate of UP.
I will try to read that post. I have seen what happened in the news. That's my opinion, it won't change. And if you tell me that there's no konyo existing in UP you're wrong. I"m not criticizing the school since i'm from there.
@enigma13 (372)
• Philippines
11 Aug 11
Hi toniganzon! FYI, UP is not a conyo university. And i can't imagine UP let alone it's students criticizing the guy in question for such a petty mistake. UP promotes liberal and critical thinking and maybe we all should also.
Please refer to one myLotter's post (care to take alook what's behind the story of the so called "STUPID MAN") on this incident. He happens to be somewhat acquainted with this guy and his post was an eye opener.
@ryueneral (85)
• Philippines
11 Aug 11
I guess he already learned his lesson, by embarrassing himself on tv. no need for cyberbullying.
@enigma13 (372)
• Philippines
11 Aug 11
No one deserves to be bullied. Whether online or anywhere else for that matter. It's typical for MOST (thankfully, not all) Filipinos to sensationalize something just to have a good laugh or just so they have something to talk about. One myLotter has a post relevant to Chris Lao. Apparently he was unfamiliar with that road. He was in a hurry because he needed to fetch his daughter from school. His wife was supposed to do that but she got stranded because of the flood as well. Add the frustration he felt with what happened to his car. I'm not trying to justify what he did as it was really uncalled for. My point here is, we should dig deeper before we share our opinions. The incident being broadcasted on national television was humiliating enough. The cyberbullying is simply unjustifiable.
@toniganzon (72279)
• Philippines
11 Aug 11
As i've said i have never bullied anybody nor have i posted anything in facebook regarding that person. But i am still standing by my opinion that he's stupid. A wise person would not utter such angry words blaming other's for his own fault. And educated person is different from a wise person. He may claimed to be an educated person but i pity him for not being wise enough in that kind of situation.
He's simply arrogant! Period. I rest my case.
@enigma13 (372)
• Philippines
11 Aug 11
Was I singling you out? Did you see you name anywhere on my response? Did I explicitly say "toniganzon bullied Chris Lao." anywhere? Geez... Chill out girl.
Good point though. An educated person is not necessarily wise and vice versa. He let his frustration get the best of him.
Cyberbullying is still unjustifiable though. End of discussion. ;p
@ryueneral (85)
• Philippines
12 Aug 11
Okay so maybe you guys can agree on these things?
1. Chris Lao's actions during the flood might be stupid and arrogant.
2. Cyberbullying is also stupid and arrogant.
@megamatt (14292)
• United States
10 Aug 11
I have never really experienced this on either end of the spectrum and believe me, I am most thankfully about that. Given the scope of the Internet, a few people can really make your life miserable a lot of the time. The fact is that the Internet can tend to be a rather good place but it does offer a degree of people not being accountable for their actions.
It does seem to a rather horrible think and its hard to truly imagine how these people must feel, even when putting yourself right in their shoes. The Internet can take things a bit too far a lot of the time, or rather some people can use the Internet to take things a bit too far. The guy in question might have thought for a few minutes about posting what happened online granted, but obviously those on the Internet did take things slightly too far. At least that's how it seems to me.
@ryueneral (85)
• Philippines
11 Aug 11
Make a few errors in a youtube comment and other users will hound you for being a "moron" "stupid" or whatever they can come up with just because you had an opinion or misspelled a word. That alone can drive some sensitive people nuts. What more if people started making hate blogs or hate facebook pages? Internet is freedom but sometimes that freedom gets abused a lot. Thanks for your input!
@kharlav (1669)
• Philippines
11 Aug 11
No, I haven't been bullied or been a bully online but in that situation I don't think he deserves to be bullied online though he was very arrogant. Doing so dont really solve anything but instead just creates more hurts. Maybe he just acted that way as a defensive mechanism, we just dont know. And im sure the bullying wont make him realize what he did but instead it will just make him even more angry or would make him get depressed.
@ryueneral (85)
• Philippines
12 Aug 11
Agreed. We will never know or understand how we would react in a similar situation. Even if we are sure we would've fared better, Cyberbullying is just wrong. It's easy to be cocky and rude behind the internet.
@minomarimat (372)
• Philippines
11 Aug 11
You're talking about Christopher Lao, right? Honestly I haven't been a victim of cyberbullying, nor have I not been a bully. I don't like these kind of activities, as these, in my opinion, are abusing the power of internet by posting such negative comments and harassment while you get away with it. As for Christopher Lao, he did a mistake, but he doesn't deserve the bullying that he gets right now. NOBODY DOES.
@ryueneral (85)
• Philippines
11 Aug 11
Yeah, precisely what I'm saying. He already embarrassed himself. Adding assault to the injury is pointless. Thanks for your input.
@goggles213 (735)
• Philippines
10 Aug 11
Cyberbullying can never be justified. Sure it might have the right reasons behind it but no one should be subjected to it. The dude in the flood might be arrogant but cyberbullying him would not only affect the guy but also his family. I heard the dude has a kid, one has to wonder, should his actions be compounded by the Cyberbullies enough to affect his kid's life?
@ryueneral (85)
• Philippines
11 Aug 11
I agree! Some people don't even think about the repercussions cyberbullying might bring to a person "after" the bullying itself. Everything done on the internet stays on forever.Like a permanent scar that can never be deleted. I really think the guy embarrassed himself enough on TV.The vicious attacks on Facebook was just too much.
@chiwasaki (4694)
• Philippines
12 Sep 11
I read about article about him. I'm sad about what happened to him though I don't like his reaction. But I don't have the right to completely judge this person. I think having a lot of haters online is really horrible. I guess what he experienced regarding cyber bullying is too much.
