I am a victim of a cyber bully who is also one of my sisters. I am not a teenager but an adult and so is she. My sister has posted horrible, nasty, hate-filled blogs about me and our other sisters for three years and is still at it. I tried to fight back by [...]
By Janet Kornblum, USA TODAY
Ricky Alatorre doesn’t know which classmate surreptitiously hoisted a cellphone camera and snapped his picture or exactly when it happened.
All Ricky, 16, knows is the fuzzy yet distinguishable portrait of him in English class showed up on MySpace, on a page that claimed to be his. And the fake profile, titled [...]
Kadina High’s teenage bullying victim Alex Wildman told to sit outside principal’s office if scared as attackers free By Larissa Cummings From:The Daily Telegraph October 20, 2009 2:36PM Told to sit outside principal’s office if he felt scared … Alex Wildman, 14. killed himself after a series of violent run-ins with bullies [...]
Copycat fears block 60 Minutes suicide story
By Michelle Draper
AAP
August 12, 2009 05:57pm
A VICTORIAN Supreme Court judge says she has blocked Channel Nine’s 60 Minutes from screening a controversial segment about teenage suicides because of concerns over copycats.
The national anti-depression initiative beyondblue won a last-minute injunction last Sunday to stop the program broadcasting the story about [...]
Is social networking taking over our life and rendering us anti social? Read on :-
http://www.todayonline.com/articles/303164.asp
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I am very pleased to see this site. I think we need this in the U.S. and IF there is/are such sites, there is little publicity about this.
I don’t hear much about cyberbullying at the school at which I teach. There is an awful lot of text messaging (SMS, I think you call it) but [...]
SINGAPORE: No plans for cyber-bullying laws
Home Affairs minister stresses combating cyber-bullying through education, reiterates existing laws adequate
The Straits Times
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
THERE are no plans to enact laws to deal specifically with cyber-bullying, as offenders can already be punished under existing laws.
But Home Affairs Minister Wong Kan Seng said his ministry would “monitor the situation.”
A [...]
Study confirms that girls are victims of cyber bullying:
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/83863.php
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