is it a must to have a lot of friend to avoid being bullied

Quote from creamylove

generally speaking, yes. If your group of friends are mid-popular or more liked then it’s unlikely that you’ll get bullied. If you’re part of the “weird kids”, then your whole group can be verbally bullied or be seen as inferior. I’ve never been bullied myself, but i’ve seen it happen to others. So you would be safer if you had more people to defend you, but again, it depends on how ballsy the bully is or how far they’re willing to go.

i do not think verbal bully is serious unless if they yell like some crazy dogs

Quote from Minkah

I'm not sure it's a must but having friends generally helps with not being perceived as weird. If you don't have many friends it tends to make people think that there's something a little off about you, which can be the reason for bullying to start in the first place.

You can of course have lots of friends and still become a target for some other reason, but I do think it significantly reduces the risk. Bullies rarely choose victims who might end up winning the fight.

oh yea ,imma weird

Quote from sleeplessnights

It makes sense as bullies are usually cowards who wanna abuse their own strengths like being bigger/stronger, popular, have a group of other bullies, or have rich/influential parents. They wanna pick on someone who won't fight back and take whatever they dish out on their victims. If they pick on someone stronger mentally or physically or with friends/influence, they would suffer immediate consequences.

Picking on someone with lot of friends is counterproductive for bullies unless they have enough power to take down everyone in that group. This would be basically a gang/faction war.

I had a case where a new kid was acting as a bully in the church. I was one of the targets as I was new there too. I retaliated when he crossed the line, so he had to move to a different target. Dunno why he was such a stupid bully. Thinking about it, I wonder why. Anyway, the new target had lot of friends, so it backfired big as he became isolated by the other kids and the teens who took care of use would keep an eye on him. He eventually quit the church.

he quit church because he end up lonely?

Quote from MrAkimo123

Well, I think we need to fight at least. They will keep bullying you after they test the 1st time at you and find that you will not fight back. They will keep coming for you since they assume you an easy target

but i dont care what they say

well unless if i am in bad mood

Quote from Shy

how can they even torture me if I don’t even know they exist

u dont need to know someone when u gossip abt them