Just because someone says something you do not like does not make it bullying.

Whew:-p

Yes you are right, a3. About the word!

Yet when someone says something to you, and you do not like it, and  you decide to 'go after' that person (follow them from thread to thread) because of their comments you didn't like... does that make you a troll?

http://humanrights.gov.au/bullying/cyberbullying/index.html

What is bullying?

Bullying can happen anywhere: at school, at work, at home, on social networking sites such as Facebook, on mobile phones, in sporting teams or between neighbours. Bullying involves someone (or a group of people) with more power than you, repeatedly and intentionally using negative words and/or actions against you, which causes you distress and risks your wellbeing.[1] Bullying has many faces and includes the use of emerging technologies.

This behaviour may include:[2]

keeping someone out of a group

acting in an unpleasant way near someone

giving nasty looks,

making rude gestures,

calling names,

being rude and impolite,

spreading stories,

rumours and teasing'mucking about' that goes too far

any form of harassment or discrimination based, for instance, on disability, gender, sex, race or re...

hurting someone physically or stalking.

Signs that someone is being bullied include changes in their sleeping/ eating patterns or personalit...[3]

being sent mean and/or anonymous text messages receiving nasty or threatening messages through social networking sites people sending photos or videos of you to other people with the intention of embarrassing you people spreading rumours about youpeople intimidating or harassing you people trying to stop you from communicating with others people hacking into, or stealing passwords to access your online accounts (e.g. Facebook or My Space... any form of communication that is discriminatory.

Yes you are right, a3. About the word!

just checking Vin, not sure if you were trying to incite people to behave badly.:-) or agreeing with the sentiments in flashie's post.

bob are you tolerant of overweight people and Christians?

Iza, if you highlight  your copy and pasted stuff, right click and choose

paste as plain text, the blue text (usually links) become plain text.

Even though your posts are in black text, the links are still there.

Thought this may help karens chook story 🙂

Hi Annie hope every thing is ok your way, those fires are a worry.