How come some forms of cyberbullying isn't taken seriously?

At first, when I was younger, I used to have the same attitudes towards cyber-bullying. I felt that if people either ignored the bullies, it would go away. I thought that the victims were sensitive, but boy was I ignorant and wrong. I'm a senior in college in college and cyber-bullying is a huge issue due to the advancing technology.

About a weeks ago, I found out through a text from my friend that people were bullying me on Yik-Yak. They called me names like weird and crazy.

Of course I ignored them and didn't respond to them, but what bothered me was how a few people took the bully's side. I even screen-shotted the post with my iPhone and tried sending it to the administrator requesting to take the post down because it was embarrassing, but the administrators never responded to me and refused to take it down.

I wouldn't have cared about this post if nobody responded to it, but the fact that a lot of people and even the administrators took their side bothered me, and it showed how disliked I'm at my college.

This experience made me feel really embarrassed, ashamed, and unhappy of who I'm because of the way I carry myself. I feel that it is my fault because if I was not acting weird, none of that would have happened. Plus none of my friends get bullied the way I do, so I think I provoked the bullies.

Lots of it isn't taken seriously because you can just not go on the website or app where people are typing rude things, people who have been verbally or physically bullied or even abused in a situation where there's no escape may not feel sympathetic for "cyber-victims".

I know what it's like, I had that a couple of years ago happen to me, and it's happened to my friend on Twitter. Mine was about the way I looked (my hair mainly, they said rude things about that and how tired I look) and my friend was because of her boyfriend at the time. The only way to "provoke" bullies is to give them something to 'bully' you about. For example, from when I've witnessed people getting bullied it's because they react badly, 'blow things out of proportion' or get angry so the bullies laugh. I did report the situation and they stopped, but I wouldn't advise you to tell teachers in college because people will tease you for that. Ignore them like you said, be who you are, it isn't something to be embarrassed about.

Your college can't do anything about anonymous posts on a third party app. There's nothing you can do about it either, unless you know who was posting and want to confront them directly But really it's for the best to just ignore it and move on. If they were too cowardly to say this to your face, they are beneath your concern.

Bullying itself isn't taken all that seriously. I have been bullied in my workplace, and it was pretty bad. It made me feel many of the things you described, and it also made me feel alone, because people don't seem to have the ability to understand how you feel if it's not happening to them. This is what I have to say to you, however: Bullies target people that threaten then somehow. When you are adult, bullying has more to do with what you're doing right, then what you're doing wrong. These people are jealous of you and want to cut you down and make you feel bad about yourself. They are miserable people who live miserable lives. And these people will rarely do it right to your face because they're cowards and they're afraid of you. I STILL to this day suffer from the bullies, and most of them don't even work at my job anymore. They recently posted a review of my company and my job in particular on the glassdoor.com where they made direct references to me. Do you know what my boss said? "How sad is it that these people have so little going on in their lives that they have the need to do this, and they're sitting around thinking about you… Many months since they've had any contact with you… And you're NOT thinking about them." And she also said "don't respond because that's having contact with you, and they really want to have contact with you, and it's a punishment to them not to have it." You should apply her words to your situation as well. Stay of yik-yak for a while. Their words can't hurt you if you can't read it. And if they think you're weird… Well, they''re losers. I know I'm weird, and I love it. I'm different. No one on earth is like me. Haters gonna hate!