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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The use snap chap and Insta to bully now.  [/quote]

True.  Here’s an example:  say a kid walks out of the restroom with a piece of toilet paper stuck to their shoe, or worse: stuck in their waste-band.

OK, in the past, a few kids saw it and laughed a little, then forgot.

Not now though.  Now, someone takes a video or photo and shares it over Snap.  To the whole school.

The whole school saves image and shares it even more. And attaches increasingly mean Nick names, insults, etc.  maybe ads cruel memes, and keeps re-sending it.

For months.  Maybe from MS into HS.

Thanks to social media, school is a whole lot more cruel than ever before.[/quote]

Exactly this. Mean comments that once would have been limited to five seconds in the hallway are now permanent, public, and have a wider audience.  Unfortunately, negative social media posts tend to get more engagement, so kids hyper-scrutinize, roast, and film each other constantly in search of content. Nothing they do is private.  It’s really dystopian.

I’ve also observed that at our MS, the mean kids tend to go the hardest after the kids who are semi-popular or successful in some way.  Maybe it’s crab bucket syndrome.[/quote]

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