First, there is still a transaction link that hooks your personal information to your xbox live account. But lets not focus on that. I was never coddled. I was never taught that participation was all that mattered. I played football and lacrosse in a town that is really well known for its level of competition. These were not teams where everyone made it. They were not teams where everyone got play time. You had to earn it and you had to be worthy of it. But that does not somehow immunize me from ridicule or torment. While I am happy that you have not raised your children to feel that everything should be handed to them, I think you are somewhat missing what I am saying. No one is safe from the detriment of bullying. You may believe wholeheartedly in who you are and be totally confident in yourself and still face issues when someone verbally attacks you for what they perceive to be flaws in your personality or who you are. I will say that after the incident that I mentioned I did learn better to rise above things and to be more able to let taunting go. It was more the invasion of my life that person committed. They were able to get my personal information with little to no effort at all. I don't believe that we need to coddle our children at all. I think, as you have alluded, that that ideal would only make things worse. However, I think that something needs to be done as far as the people who are so able to pick targets and maliciously attack them. When a bully finds someone who has faced issues in their life that make them a prime target for ridicule they are merciless. To give you some idea of what its like, it would be like if I was playing against you in the crucible and I found that there was no way for you to stop me from shotgunning you to death. And then from there I found a way to constantly pinpoint you in the game a sought you out to ensure that I killed you as many times as possible. And then that I stayed in that same match with you as long as you were there and that even if I was on your team I still sought to make you helpless to shotgun attacks. When someone truly decides that they are going to stop at nothing to make your life a living hell, they will find a way to accomplish that.