Monday, July 2, 2007

New Poll Shows 97% Of Teens Have Impure Thoughts. Also, You Are Fat.

This is a completely ridiculous story. A new Pew Poll shows that nearly one-third of teens reported being the victims of online bullying. However, quoting the AP article:

According to the Pew Internet and American Life Project, the most common forms of cyberbullying are publicly disclosing someone else's private e-mail or messages, sending threatening or aggressive messages and spreading rumors online.

Pew also counts as cyberbullying the posting of an embarrassing picture of someone else without permission.

So, essentially, it sounds like talking about someone in a way that is anything less than entirely flattering counts as cyberbullying. Honestly, to me, the biggest surprise in this article is that only one-third of teens report being victims of these sorts of incidents. I would think, especially for teenage girls, if I remember high school correctly, that this sort of behavior would occur up around the 90-ish percent rate.

This story, however, is just sad. And hilarious. Except for the peacock, for whom it is only sad.

3 comments:

Mike said...

I think the other 2/3 just don't know about it. With a definition like that, you come up with great philisophical questions like "If you blog about something (someone) and nobody reads it, did it ever happen?"

Mike said...

Oh and as far as the "peacock" is concerned. It was a blood sucking evil vampire. Its not sad. That guy is a hero, he saved the world. Although why he didn't try to stake it, I'm not sure. I guess there wasn't anything handy.

Unknown said...

Vampire Peacocks are the harbingers of the Plague Zombie Hordes.