Why is cyber bullying a part of HSY pack?

I know little on the complexities of coding and all that goes into making games, but if there is anything I do know is that there is a consistent theme with the bugs since the last update patch: relationship routing is chaotic. While I do believe the bullying in the Social Bunny app is intentional, the mean messages from good relations are likely bugs that fall within the same line as the other relationship bug regarding family members showing romantic interests in each other. Seeing some LPs for the High School Years pack display plenty of similar anomalies in Sim-to-Sim interactions and pop-ups. I've seen relationship symbols appear above the heads of sleeping Sims; relationship gain or losses showing one thing via symbols but the opposite on the meter bar; pop-ups from Sims who have asked to become best friends being asked a second time; Sims spawning into your played Sim's home to admit feelings of attraction and so on...

I've noted this theory before in other places, but I think the bug rests greatly in the step to give Simmers the ability to diversify their Sims sexual identity and orientation. With the original foundation it was simpler for the game to route these things because there was only two options for a Sim's physical sex and sexual orientation was with any Sim who is an adult. Now, that very simple system is trying to route specifications to a Sim that could have a male upper body, a female lower body who uses gender neutral pronouns and is romantically attracted to males, but is experimenting and only has the interest to whoo-hoo with females. Using that for perspective, I am guessing the system is having a lot of trouble keeping up with what is what and who is who. Therefore, your game file may have collected data that your Sim has a great relationship with their brother and a horrible relationship with their brother's best friend, but for some reason that best friend is sending their brother hate mail while asking your Sim to be their best friend and to make matters more confusing your Sim's best friend is majorly crushing on your Sim's aunt, with whom they have never even interacted with before.

So... yeah... with that sort of stuff happening in Simmer's games recently... I don't think the Social Bunny app was supposed to enter the realms of cyberbullying, but it was supposed to follow a standard route where if your Sim has a bad relationship with another Sim, it would likely result in mean messages. This would be semi-controllable by the Simmer playing, though, because the Simmer chooses who can be added to their SB account and has the power to make relationships good, neutral to bad if they work at it.

The problem with any feature like this in the game is that it may be added for realism but it becomes completely farcical. It's the same with the trolling of famous Sims. What you end up with is random mean messages and sometimes behaviour which is out of character for Sims we've created.

I no longer buy packs immediately now (after CoL) and give it a while for the bugs to be worked out. This kind of feature puts me off. It's not an over sensitivity for me, it's a trigger. For anyone who has suffered brutal bullying it's not a cool addition. As a young girl, a boy at school broke a bone in my back and I later had what's been described (by a counsellor) as hardcore bullying by someone in an office which caused me to leave a job I loved. It's not a fun option. I play the Sims for entertainment.

We have the control to create mean Sims and carry out these actions if we so choose, and a choice is exactly what it should be. I have a glitch already in my game where Sims can't stop being mean to each other, which I've already reported. These are Sims that usually get along, good Sims and loving families but if I'm not controlling them at the time they start scrapping. Even if I am controlling them it sometimes pops up on their queue to be mean and I have to stop it.

With famous Sims they get a barrage of mean troll messages, a feature which keeps returning so I have to keep purchasing a quirk remedy to get rid over and over. Messages, again from good Sims or from family members I've created. It makes it unrealistic.

So I hope this feature is tempered or it's going to put me off buying it later in the year. I'll be watching this space. The direction the game takes should always be in our control. Some of us want to create a space without the brutal behaviour we've witnessed in real life.

After all, this is a simulation game which already has real life consequences in it. Sims get electrocuted, they get power turned off if bills are late, they get sick, they get sad. So some mitigation and consequences would be appropriate here and they shouldn't have to just turn everything off. The game needs light and shade obviously but this is a new addition at a time when we are trying to be more aware of the weight of this topic. Even our celebrities are trying to tell us to take this seriously by explaining what trolling does to them.

Basically, lets make already so over positive utopic game even more utopic. 

I get what you are saying. But does this mean that mean interactions should be taken out entirely? Sorry, but I'm not interested in game where everyone are besties with each other. 

If anything, Team should maybe add toggle, warning and maybe ease up on some texts. But it shouldn't be taken out completely.

Note; What is in game isn't cyber bullying. That looks differently. 

@PatrickClSim3LowIt's not about that, it's about control over my world in my opinion. I take your point that the mean interactions certainly have their place in the game. One issue is autonomy is so faulty in my game (on console) that the mean interactions are out of control. They have completely taken over. I can't stop them or the mischief interactions. All social events are over taken by them, which I have reported as a bug many times. I literally have to battle them when my Sims meet up.
Nobody said they wanted some Utopia, or some over correction.
But can you imagine someone who is suffering from cyber bullying IRL then having it impact their game too when they were trying to escape into it for a break. Case in point one of my loved ones who isn't on this forum to voice her opinion and was excited about the high school pack. Cyber bullying in her case led to 2 separate violent attacks by male classmates at 2 different places of education and a broken nose. It can leave people feeling incredibly vulnerable, especially at school age. I studied it extensively after what happened to me, even going back to my old school several years ago to interview 40 teens between 12-14. What I found from my interviews was extremely disturbing. 2 of the 40 kids were dangerously vulnerable because of this issue.
For too long tech companies and the authorities have responded with an eyeroll and a "kids will be kids" response. I was cyber bullied on social media by the same ex classmate who attacked me. I got no support from the tech company and no longer use social media. We play the Sims to relax and if a player is so bothered by this that they have raised it immediately then it's a problem.
@EA_Cadethanks for your response. It's very welcome.