• TheDarksteel94@sopuli.xyz
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    9 months ago

    Lol, I would’ve been bullied in school if I didn’t have a phone. At least in later grades when phones became more popular.

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        9 months ago

        This, tbh. You don’t get bullied for something, you get bullied because bullies want to bully.

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        9 months ago

        In my experience it’s usually the ones that stick out and aren’t seen as “cool”. Not even nerds, just people that are different in one way or another.

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            9 months ago

            No? Not everyone got bullied when I went to school, and I’m sure it’s not very different nowadays.

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              9 months ago

              My point is that everyone is “different in one way or another”, so we’re all fair game. That might be getting bullied in front of everyone for being a stereotypical nerd, or it may be another clique talking about you behind your back for dressing preppy and hanging out with the “cool kids”.

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      9 months ago

      I didn’t have a phone until I was 16 despite most of my peers getting one around 12/13. I didn’t get bullied for not having a phone, in fact no one really made any comments on it other than an occasional “wow, I couldn’t live without my phone!”

      Granted, this was over ten years ago, and was probably the first generation of teenagers where cell phones were near-ubiquitous. I don’t know if kids nowadays would get bullied just for not having a phone, but it would severely limit their social interactions. Riding your bike and knocking at your friends’ doors randomly, or going to the mall and expecting you’ll find some people you know there, these are from a bygone era.