Scammers are a lot like bullies and cheaters

[Please read the whole thing, I may say somethings that will offend you, but I also try to point out what we can do about scammers]

In Animal Jam, scammers have always been a problem. 

Yes, even in the beta days, but then there wasn't anything to scam, and it was extremely rare to meet a scammer. 

But now they are more of a problem than ever. 

Scammers are just like cheaters(as in school wise).

Now they are alike in the sense that they cheat to get what they want/feel better about themselves.

However I can't have a scammers-cheaters opinionated analogy saying they are 'just like' with out saying I feel diffierently about them, because I don't.

What I'm saying is that I feel the same way about scammers as I do about cheaters(as in on cheating on tests, etc). 

If you can cheat the system, great! 

Basically, what I'm saying is that if you can trick a person into giving you their items, good job!

However, I am not saying that either cheating or scamming are correct. I do think they're wrong morally, but if you can out think the system, great for you! 

While we're still on this topic, I'd like to say scammers are a bit like bullies.

Yes, they do make you feel bad, but that's not what I want to highlight in this analogy. I say that scamming will never really stop, just like bullying. 

Sure, you can have cute little riots in AJ saying things likes 'Be green and hop for no scamming and safe jamming!' but do you really think that's going to stop a scammer? Because I surely don't, in fact, a scammer might join the rally, in hopes of looking like a better person, or trying to make it seem like they wouldn't scam, but that is just like all those 'stop bullying' groups you see around. To be honest, if I would think nothing of those groups/rallies. Sure, some of the 'stop bully' groups do show you what to do if you come across a bully, which can help, but let's be realistic. I have seen bullies at school, and what did I do? Nothing. I panicked and forgot, and I told myself that if I said something the bully might pick on me, which is selfish, but it's true, and I'm pretty sure it's human instinct.

Now you might just think I'm a cold hearted person, who is probably a scammer, bully, and cheater, and I'm trying to justify my actions. 

I'm not doing any of what's written above, rather just stating my opinion. 

Here's the last part of the whole scammer-bully analogy. 

They also are alike in the sense that they can be 'solved' and 'treated' in the same way. I'm only using these words because I couldn't think up any other sorts of words, I'm not saying start a rally/group to stop them, because as I've stated above, that really wouldn't work.

What I mean is that we should be teaching everyone how to emotionally deal with bullies, meaning we should teach people how to deal with telling on a bully, how to not let them bother you, and basically things along those lines.

~wolfs4evea

Can you buy love/friends/happiness?

Hey everyone! Today a friend of mine brought up an interesting topic during break at school. 

He said something like 'It's so dumb how people think you can buy happiness!' Instantly, my friend (imacutebunbunbunny) and I disagreed. 

It's very possible to buy happiness. Of course there's that cheesy saying 'You can't buy happiness/love/friends.' But it's not true, it's really not. 

Sure, it's a cute saying, but it's the farthest from true. 

Here's a good example of how you can buy happiness (it's the same example I used at break): When I got my computer I was so happy, and guess what, it still makes me extremely happy whenever I use it. You can apply this to anything really. I know several people you get happy when they get something new, or (my favorite) food. Therefore, you can buy happiness. 

Sure it's indirect, but let me tell you how it can be direct.

Say you pay me $2000 dollars (any price really), let me tell you, whether or whether not you tell me to 'be happy' I'm going be pretty happy. 

See? Buying happiness is so easy. 

Now here's where it gets a bit more complicated-buying friends. 

Let me tell you straight up, yes you can buy friends. 

If you ask me if you can buy genuine friends, the answer would be no. 

However, let me put a spin on this.

Say in your school or whatever if you don't wear a certain type of shoes or have the right backpack and hair, no one will be your friend. 

Well if you go buy those shoes, backpack and get the right haircut, technically you can indirectly buy friends-technically. 

Here's the bit I was saving for last, buying love.

This is sort of a mature topic and isn't really appropriate if you're a young 'un.

If you choose to stop reading here, fare well!

Have a great Valentine's Day!

~wolfs

"The school system is fine!"

This is something that has been bothering me for a very long time now. 

The school system is messed up. 

I'm not talking about common-core or whatever. 

I mean what it does mentally to students. 

Have you ever looked up on google 'why does school make me...'? 

No? 

Here's some screenshots of the results.

Tell me this isn't wrong. 

Just looking at it makes me choke and start tearing up. 

This should not be what comes up first, school should not make you feel this bad. 

I'd love to say this only happens to anti-social students with bad grades, but it really doesn't. 

In elementary school, for a long time in the final year, I would have meltdowns as a daily thing, and then I got back a writing assessment and got a terrible grade on it. When I came home I was shaking, and I cried and threw up so much that night, I skipped dinner, not wanting it to come back up. Thinking about it makes me choke up. I even remember using a lighter and burning my wrist slightly before slashing deep into my thigh with a knife

(still have the scars for proof). I had good grades and great friends then so this doesn't apply to kids with bad grades.(Oh god, now I'm dry retching.)

I remember around Thanksgiving break, on Saturday I felt a weight lifted that I didn't even know was there. On the next Sunday before school, I literally cried for an hour before throwing up until there was nothing in me anymore and I began drying retching in front of the toilet. A similar thing happened recently during on the last Sunday of winter break. Not to mention I had trouble sleeping because I kept having nightmares about school during both breaks. Now I'm dreading spring break because of it and I'm not even sure why this keeps happening-my grades have been great. 

Maybe you think I'm just a wimp who's got terrible anxiety and is extremely squeamish.(I'm not on medication, however I had to visit a consoler for a long time.) 

However, I do hope I have convinced a large lot of you that the school system's not right.

~a very upset wolfs