Be kind to others...fast forward 10 years and imagine some authority looking into Mark's social media history. Yeah you may be a big alpha in middle school, but you'll be labeled a bully and a social pariah the rest of your life.
Heck, let's imagine advances in NLP and video processing where people automatically get labeled as bullies. Being regarded as such could be the new scarlet letter. The Internet doesn't forget.
Unless Instagram is gone in 10 years. Does anybody go back and look at old MySpace profiles? Are they even still around? Every single one of these platforms is proprietary, and likely won't be around very long. After the bullying is done, and the service becomes uncool, the bullied kid still suffers.
On the bright side, the bully could grow up to be a really amazing person, and and maybe won't be labelled this way his whole life.
Heck, let's imagine advances in NLP and video processing where people automatically get labeled as bullies. Being regarded as such could be the new scarlet letter. The Internet doesn't forget.
Live by the sword, die by the sword.