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

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

  2. 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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  3. 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!