I think I’m one of three people I know who does not actively hate Nickelback.
(Yes, I carefully chose each word in that sentence.)
For whatever reason, people loathe Nickelback.
Really, it doesn’t make any sense to me. The band manages to rack up tons of award nominations and wins (the guys have even won “World’s Best Selling Rock Artist,” for pete’s sake), but I guess there are more people out there who despise the group than there are fans, and those who despise Nickelback make no secret about it.
Well, Nickelback finally lashed back.
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Cyber-bullying is so common, unfortunately. I’m glad you decided to tackle this topic and provide a slew of helpful resources.
And this is soooo true:
“For the rest of us, giving in to cyber bullying isn’t the best move. As do most kinds of bullies, cyber bullies see responses as reinforcement and often they’ll keep on and keep on and keep on as long as the victim pays feeds them the responses they want.”
Here are some tips on coping with cyberbullies: http://www.b-free.ca/home/524.html#cyberbully
I find it odd that most sites about cyberbullying don’t offer practical advice on dealing with it, and they’re all aimed at children. Usually the advice is “tell your parents.” I interact with a lot of teens (and adults) on Twitter who’ve been bullied, and they tell me their parents are clueless and can’t help, or have made the situation worse. Schools and parents just aren’t web-savvy enough.
I would love to see a site with both research/info (which is what most sites provide) and practical tips (most sites don’t provide) that’s aimed at adults (because adults are cyberbullied just as much as kids! Nickelback is just one example, and I’m another). It would be awesome if some researcher collaborated with 4chan or similar.
If anyone knows of such a resource, please share. 
BTW, I’ve had a cyberstalker for over a decade. I know who she is IRL, but have no legal recourse because she’s in another country, so it continues and I simple have to try to ignore it. Changing email, sites, phone, etc., hasn’t deterred her. There has to be a better solution.
@ Sandra – Thanks so much for the link! You know, I realize cyber bullying is still relatively new (in terms of awareness and, you know, the grand scheme of things), but I would’ve expected a lot more resources by now, too.
Maureen Catalano
10:54 pm on
April 30th, 2012In March, 2011 my only son, Dax, came face to face with his cyberbully at the local mall parking lot. Jake left my son, Dax with a fractured skull and temporal hemotoma (a bleed in the brain)which almost ended my son’s life, but left him with a traumatic brain injury.Although Dax survived his encounter, he was left “different” and not the loving, caring son I used to have. It is important I tell my story to educate those who think cyberbullying has no “real consequences” that one day the words on the screen can become real physical violence.
@ Maureen – Thanks so much for sharing your story here. I’m so sorry Dax has suffered at the hands of bullies. Do you have a blog or website – a sort of “home base” – where you discuss what happened to Dax and cyberbullying? I’d love to share the link if you do. Also, if you’re interested in writing a guest post about the situation here at Celebrity Psychings, just let me know. You can contact me at alicia AT writingspark DOT com if you are. I’d love to post it.
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