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The Rise of Cyber Bullying

Posted by simoniker on from the the-inevitable-cyber-wedgie dept.

santos_douglas writes "The Detroit Free Press has an article detailing the problems schoolchildren now face in the form of online cyber bullying. As if parents didn't already have enough to worry about! Examples include rumor spreading typically via text messaging, threatening emails, invasive pictures taken with camera phones, and the most extreme - creating entire websites to criticize/threaten/harass another student. The article suggests many tips for combating the problem - chief among them being the establishment of specific school policies. I suppose this is another example of an inevitable downside to the interconnected world. Mandatory Google search for your added reading pleasure."

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  1. Oh man... by PurdueGraphicsMan · · Score: 4, Funny
    Wow. Man am I glad that I didn't have to worry about this stuff when I was in elementary school. I was a fat kid that got picked on by two scrawny girls I now call the "Joslin Twins". I don't think I could have handled it if they would have setup a website detailing all of my shortcomings and reasons why other people should hate me since I was fat. It's a good thing that they've forgotten about me and they're white trash. They wouldn't even begin to know how to put up a website.

    Does Front Page Express still come free with Windows? I hope not...

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    1. Re:Oh man... by badboy_tw2002 · · Score: 5, Funny

      Revenge is sweet tho; all these big jocks are MBA's now and pay big $$$ for their websites, etc. Of course, my *own* sites are free... :D

      Yeah, and they probably have to pay someone to fix that expensive Porche they have! And look at the money you saved by not buying breast implants for your trophy wife!! I guess the joke is on those losers!

    2. Re:Oh man... by mav[LAG] · · Score: 4, Funny

      I am a professional in New York City making very decent cache

      So is it level 1 or level 2?

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  2. You're looking at this the wrong way . . . by bedouin · · Score: 3, Funny

    Wouldn't this be a perfect opportunity for the nerds to get even with the bullies?

  3. Nobody picked on me by pegr · · Score: 3, Funny

    Nobody that picked on me had the brains to put up a website! In fact, I didn't gain the respect of the jocks until CompSci class when they would ask me to help with their work. Of course, it was all on Commodore PETS (gawd, I feel old...).

  4. If I see by Timesprout · · Score: 4, Funny

    anyone posting AC here I'm gonna kick your ass, I know who you are and you better have your lunch money with you tomorrow.

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  5. Gimme your lunch money! by digital_milo · · Score: 5, Funny

    I guess we've found yet another use for micropayments.

  6. Funny that... by Leebert · · Score: 4, Funny

    My little brother's website (which includes photos and comments sections) was spammed pretty bad by a member of a rival football team.

    My the profanities! I'm thinking of making Apache redirect to goatse.cx the next time someone comes back from the offender's /24.

  7. Mandatory? by Call+Me+Black+Cloud · · Score: 3, Funny

    Since when are Google searches mandatory? Did I miss a memo? Oh wait, I know, I bet in was in that memo with the thing about the TPS report cover sheets. Damn, looks like I'll be working this weekend to retrofit my submissions...

  8. Re:the persistence of boners by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    I was always embarassed when I had a persistent boner at school, too.

  9. I'll show you who the bully is! by orthogonal · · Score: 5, Funny

    The article sux0r5, and so does the author, MIKE WENDLAND!

    MIKE WENDLAND, I've got embarrassing pictures of you!

    And I know where you work, MIKE WENDLAND!

    I'll be watching to see if you write any more of your "columns", MIKE WENDLAND!

    Yeah, don't you forget it MIKE WENDLAND. I'll be watching every Monday and Friday, and alternate Tuesdays and Thurdays.

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  10. not really by GoatPigSheep · · Score: 3, Funny

    1) Bully hurts nerd 2) Nerd makes website insulting bully 3) Bully hurts nerd worse

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  11. Re:Give'm the Slashdot Effect by FCKGW · · Score: 3, Funny

    Even easier if it's a Geocities page or something similar with a low transfer limit: just write a little script calling wget to download each file, then have cron (or scheduled tasks on Windows) call that script every minute.

    What sweet irony it would be to have a site making fun of me for being a geek, then using abilities gained from being a geek to kill it. Nobody successfully attacks us geeks on our home turf. ;-)

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