What's the difference between bullying and teasing?

The difference is when it really gets under your skin, and the person meant to hurt you. If they were really teasing you. They would stop when you ask them to

From my experiences, there is a major difference between bullying and teasing. Teasing often comes from those you trust and are close to you such as your friends in a joking manner that makes you laugh. Whereas bullying is often meant to hurt you.

I’d say there is a fine line between bullying and teasing where it can be tricky to decide what actions or words would go where. I feel like it’s probably not bullying (at least on purpose) if the person doing the action doesn’t actually mean any harm. If you told them that what you were saying was actually upsetting you and they refused to stop or if you find them laughing at you rather than with you, it’s probably bullying or at least the actions of a person who doesn’t understand when to stop.

Teasing is usually mutual, both parties agree that it is just a joke and they are both alright with the things that are being said. It becomes bullying when one of the parties has gone too far and hurt the others feelings, and the other person expresses this, and the "teasing" doesnt stop but continues to happen.

I find the best explanation to be: teasing is only possible when the relationship is equivalent. When that is not the case, it's bullying. Thus: when the teaser can tease the person who was teasing first, it's teasing. When the teaser can't (does not feel comfortable or will get bullied more etc.), it's bullying.

In my own opinion, teasing is meant as a true joke. Teasing isn't mean, per-say and no harm is meant. It's like two friends bantering back and forth or playing around. While teasing can get out of control sometimes, usually talking it out among yourselves works in helping diffuse the situation. Bullying is someone going out of their way to make someone feel bad and to make other's fear them (the bully.) They often do what they do for attention as well, while teasing is mean as a passing. Bully's are NOT friends, and are not nice people. However, we must still have compassion for them as no one is born mean.

As someone who's been on the end of both bullying and teasing. Teasing is NOT meant to be hurtful. Typically, most friends would use it to banter such as if someone were to miss a shot in basketball, someone might say nice shot goofball. It's all lighthearted and helps people deal with constructive criticism. The thing about bullying is that, it's meant to hurt. It's done with the intent of hurting the other person repeatedly. It is any sort of imbalance of power. Typically the teaser will stop if at any time the one being teased feels hurt. Knowing the difference between bullying and teasing is important.

Bullying and teasing are commonly mistaken as the same thing. It is however not. Bullying implies that the actions or words uttered to the bullied are repetitive and inflict inner damage to him/her though time. Whereas teasing is a small joke or thought uttered by someone in order to intetact and bond with the person targeted. Friends are most known to tease however it is known that sometimes teasing can be offensive. The solution would be to talk to th person about your offences in order for them to stop it and understand your feelings. In all talk about it if someone offended you by saying or doing something. They are not obviously aware of the hurt they can inflect.

Teasing is happening among your friends and best friends as well. Maybe you make your friend angry by that, but they would know you don't mean it. It should be appropriate and nonviolent. Both sides should be okay with that, especially the one who is teased. However bullying can be seemed like a similar thing, it is really not. The bullied person is not okay with behavior of a bully. The bully behaves inappropriate and insulting towards the person, who is not friend of them. Often bully dislikes their victim just because they are jealous. The bullies just make people hard to live.

In my opinions there is an incredibly thin thing between what a recipient conceives as playful teasing and bullying. It takes only a second to overstep that line and begin causing emotional/mental harm to that person. Teasing may start out with a "Practically harmless" mindset, but the recipient is the one who gets to decide whether they are feeling bullied or not. Maybe they're being teased over a crush, maybe someone is teasing them because their parent bought the "wrong sneakers". What one person considers teasing could be far worse for a person on the receiving end. This kind of behaviour roots in a lot of mental issues, such as anxiety, depression, withdrawal. Avoid teasing unless you 100% know the person.