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A study carried out by an anti-bullying charity found that 57% of the young people it surveyed had experienced bullying online when playing games.
In addition, 22% said they had stopped playing a game as a result.
Ditch the Label surveyed around 2,500 young members of the virtual hotel platform Habbo, aged between 12 and 25.
One 16-year-old gamer, Bailey Mitchell, told the BBC he had experienced bullying while playing online games since the age of 10.
"If you're going to school every day and you're being bullied in school you want to go home to your computer to escape," he said.
"So if you're getting more abuse thrown at you it's going to put you off doing anything social - it has for a lot of people I know, me included.
"It's regular, every other game you're in, there's always someone who has a mic or types in chat. They'll call you some random abusive thing they can think of."
Indeed, young gamers should stop bullying old people in online games.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by ledow on Friday June 02 2017, @02:59PM (1 child)
"Does Habbo have an age limit for players?
Yes. Habbo Hotel is meant for users 13 years old or above. Users under the age of 13 are not permitted to register an account on Habbo."
If you are an unsupervised 10 year old on the Internet, whether you're playing games or browsing Google, THAT'S the problem. Not the people saying rude words and telling you that you're crap at the game (which is entirely different to bullying which needs to be targeted against a particular person, or even attribute of a person).
I can't imagine my generation ever knowingly letting their kids talk to strangers - including adults - for hours on end, unmonitored, from the age of 10. We used to get told NOT to talk to such people. Especially if they were kids trying to bully you or people you didn't know.
Above about 14/15/16, when the child begins to mature, they can handle their own (or they still shouldn't be playing unsupervised). They can even report the other users if they so wish. Or mute. Or block. Or play elsewhere. Or set up a server. Or get a Steam group of friends going. Or all manner of ways to avoid it.
But, no, apparently, it's all the Internet's fault that you can just plug your kid into the wireless and have him run around blowing shit up with adult, children and teenagers chosen at random from around the world and you have no clue what he's doing or who he's doing it with, without any kind of control, monitor, maturity check for your child, etc.
"Hey, Internet. While completely unsupervised for hours on end when I had no clue what they were doing and never bothered to check, my child arranged to meet a lone 50-year-old man in the parking lot at 3am, lured by the prospect of a Pokemon card.... why don't you filter that, it's all your fault!"
Is this modern parenting?
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Friday June 02 2017, @03:36PM
Hey!!! Whaddya think yo' doin'?
Teach kids deal with real life and stop bein' sheeple?
Next thing ye know, they'll stop being afraid of terrorists and decide to tune out, fight back or even immigrate outta 'Murika and TLA-s care. Can't have that, who's gonna pay taxes then, huh?
Desist immediately or you gonna be busted!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford