The Rise of Cyber Bullying

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."

Comments

Bullies should be killed. With a knife in the eye.

[teamhasnoi]

Really. Just thinking about how someone can make someone else's life hell for no other reason than for the propping up of an immature personality, makes me so angry.

I used to get picked on in school, and now 15 years later I thiink about it and laugh, but a part of me would Grand Theft Auto those motherfuckers in a second and not shed a tear.

Sure, some may have 'grown up', but how many people that you know change that much from high school? Chances are, they're using the same techniques to bully their wives, children, co-workers, and others.

I don't wonder at school shootings at all.