This article from boing boing on the continuing development of GG and 8chan is very scary and interesting.
(http://boingboing.net/2015/01/19/invasion-boards-set-out-to-rui.html)
One of the things that interests me is the critical framework that these bullies are building around their behaviour. For example:
A "lolcow" is who I was between the ages of 12 and when I finally got into the moderate safety of the 6th Form (I didn't fully shake it till I left school). Walking around the school for most other kids I was just a way to generate lulz, and responding with retreat, fear or defiance were all adequate responses. I always gave them what they wanted: a reaction.
At the height of my bullying experiences an actual in person suicide threat was met with more goading for lulz. So I can't begin to imagine how a awful it can get online where bullies are removed and abstracted from the people they are attacking. Especially as online becomes offline too with this horrible practice of doxxing. I am so glad I was bullied before Facebook existed as it meant I could escape it for some of the time.
Bullying is never offline though. It is always at it's worse inside the "lolcows" head. Where it can't be turned off.
