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Apple Supports Anti-Bullying Campaign With New iOS 9.1 Emoji Symbol
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You share a statement complaining about an umbrella word, yet form your own umbrella statement of your own on the subject.
Not sure why anyone would think this is to "stop bullying" all on its own. That's silly.
It's to support COMMUNICATING about bullying, in support of a specific campaign. Communication IS part of alleviating any problem. And if the campaign helps erode bullying, Apple's support in turn is welcome.
It's worth a try vs. not having a campaign at all. Don't let it bother you too much.
It's to support COMMUNICATING about bullying, in support of a specific campaign. Communication IS part of alleviating any problem. And if the campaign helps erode bullying, Apple's support in turn is welcome.
It's worth a try vs. not having a campaign at all. Don't let it bother you too much.
Hey, dude, you're pretty cool, and we care about you!
Translation: I'm only being nice to you, because this emoji will make me look like a nice person in front of my peers... Otherwise I don't care about you, and will forget that I ever wrote this after five minutes are up.
Translation: I'm only being nice to you, because this emoji will make me look like a nice person in front of my peers... Otherwise I don't care about you, and will forget that I ever wrote this after five minutes are up.
It reminds me of the unknown pokemon 
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=u...aKxOzWyAIVC7waCh1J2wrY&biw=1680&bih=944&dpr=2
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=u...aKxOzWyAIVC7waCh1J2wrY&biw=1680&bih=944&dpr=2
So without a silly emoji, people wouldn't be aware of bullying? Sounds like a solution looking for a problem.
Come on, people, don't be too harsh on Apple, Tim is just trying to get some more money from the political correctness wagon. Tim's Apple = fashion + political agenda + political correctness + user's private data + force users' updates
I think its useless, I'm not trying to sound harsh as I can empathize with the plight of those who were and are bullied but yet having an emoticon does nothing.
Anyone using this emoji ..... Will get bullied ...
Pointless
Pointless
When I was younger bullying was when you got your rear kicked every other day. It seems like these days it seems to be if someone is belittling someone else. Has the definition expanded with the current generation?
I wonder what people will think this emoji is supposed to be 10 years from now while it's still in the Unicode spec.
Unicode adopted middle finger emoji, but refused to add Buddha emoji...
Clearly we're living in the Biff Tannen line of reality.
Clearly we're living in the Biff Tannen line of reality.
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This is actually very disturbing. This only confirms the fact that corp/media are owned by you know who and unfortunately this means even Apple.
There is no way that someone in the creative dept thought this was a perfect symbol to represent bullying. Totally illogical. This is just an excuse to use the symbol as a "F U" to the "useless eaters".
There is no way that someone in the creative dept thought this was a perfect symbol to represent bullying. Totally illogical. This is just an excuse to use the symbol as a "F U" to the "useless eaters".
awesome, where does the line start to get my worthy cause a specific emoji on all Apple devices?
I'll mock them - screw the childlike emoji hype - Amazon is up $53/share today on their net/cloud services. Apple is buying property all over the place, wasting time on emoji garbage, failing to innovate, wasting $100,000,000,000 on useless buybacks, and delivered a pathetic 4% return on stock price performance over the past 3 years. Cook sucks.
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Of course. Don't you know that today everyone is special, gets a gold star, a trophy and must be coddled every minute of every day? There are no losers only winners, and you can't tell kids how it is...
Yes, I was bullied in school. I still had my core friends and family to rely on. I got over it and it made me a stronger and better person. Teaching your kids how to deal with it is so much better than some emoji or this coddling we do today.
It has, my daughters come to me saying they were bullied and I ask how, and one of them said so and so told her she was ugly, or what ever.
I didn't minimize or marginalize the issue but that's not bullying - at least as I remembered.
I've told my daughters if anyone puts their hand on them, hits/kicks/etc. Kick them in the groin - that will stop them in their tracks. Don't go running to a teacher or anything just clock them.
Please, someone help me translate this. I thought I was up on conspiracy theories but this one has me stymied.
Maybe corporations should also stay out of making matching gifts and philanthropy?
