A number of Kyambogo University students have come out to complain and criticize cyber bullying or online bullying/harassment done by fellow students.
This is after numerous sarcastic memes and tweets have been made about certain aspects regarding other students.
Have you perhaps seen those memes making fun of and mocking some students’ shoes? What about these pictures of students all covered in dust at the end of the day?
People say Ugandans never rest as every other time they are trying to come up with funnier and much more violent memes than ever before.
Little do they know that victims sometimes get psychologically tortured and lack a sense of belonging. Some students take funny pictures of their fellows unaware and later make funny memes out of them.
Others go ahead to tweet for the entire world to see. How careful the rest of the students, who haven’t yet fallen victim of this, must be about their clothing, walking style, laughing style and their way of life!
You could possibly consider your behavior with close friends quite normal and the next second there is a trending meme on which you are the main character. One has to be suspicious of who might take a picture of them at any time anywhere. What a difficult way to live!
Things get out of hand when fun has to be made out of aspects that are difficult to change for example body size. One student took a picture of a very portable girl walking with another much bigger than her, and posted it on tweeter.
The tweet got so many comments that one considers quite unpleasant. Yet still, another picture of a girl wearing those ancient sandals with her feet covered in dust and the caption was mocking all Kyambogo University students.
” This is too much! It is just exceeding the limits, ” a one student at the faculty of arts and social sciences lamented.
Students with this kind of harassment who can’t be able to change much about their situation may be stressed and perhaps depressed for they lack a sense of belongingness in the own community.
Perhaps this kind of bullying can be reduced to a certain acceptable level, they suggest.
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