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They may think they are smart enough. When I was in middle school back in the 90s we all had city-provided Unix accounts for e-mail, homepages etc. The e-mail
by distances 8y ago
They may think they are smart enough.
When I was in middle school back in the 90s we all had city-provided Unix accounts for e-mail, homepages etc. The e-mail was read over telnet with Pine. Some student found out they can change the sender address inside the app, proceeded to set it to another kid's email, and sent an insulting e-mail to the science teacher.
Of course the e-mail sender field is just for display purposes; the teacher had no trouble checking the headers and finding the kid behind this.
The medium has changed a bit, but I can imagine teenagers still easily tripping over some technicalities and details.
- kkarakk 8y agothe point is that the person who can "read the headers" is so abstracted from the school system as to not matter. when you report something to instagram it doesn't even take it down unless it hits a certain volume of reports - almost never if the page is a closed group. there is no human to talk to either. what teacher can stand up to bullying in that case? suppose some kid cracks under pressure - the other kids just inform everyone in their group that a new group exists on snapchat/facebook/discord source: someone in an online page got outraged at a comment of mine and tried to bully me out of the group. in the end i did just leave rather than deal with the issue coz it felt like fighting a hydra