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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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Thursday, December 18, 2008
Cyber bullies turn vicious - Really!

According to Asia One News:
A 16-YEAR-OLD girl here created fake profiles on popular social networking sites MySpace and Facebook with a single-minded purpose: To befriend those she disliked in school.
Once the connections were made, the teen turned on her schoolmates, hurling nasty insults at them.
The bullying [...]

Cyberbullying Suicide Stokes the Internet Fury Machine
By Kim Zetter 11.21.07

Sarah Wells used her blog to post the name of suicide victim Megan Meier’s neighbor, fueling a firestorm of internet outrage.
Photo: bluemerle.blogspot.com
Sarah Wells used her blog to post the name of suicide victim Megan Meier’s neighbor, fueling a firestorm of internet outrage.
Photo: bluemerle.blogspot.com
Sarah Wells makes [...]

hi, i thought there is a singapore constitution to protect all to live and work freely in singapore? and the singapore pledge? how come no law against cyber bully? we have many laws against petty things? like you punish people for selling chewing gum? for not flushing toilet? [...]

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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 [...]

It may be a good idea to get this site endorsed first by the Ministry of education Gilbert. I believe in the long run this would give parents, educators and would be stakeholders a higher level of confidence in what you are trying to accomplish here.
As it is. Its very difficult to get a handle [...]

I think it’s great that Gilbert has set up this initiative; I know of a couple of teenage girls who have been victims of this and were completely helpless about how to counter the cyberbullies.
Cyberbully victims are very much like victims in the real world, they are often socially withdrawn and quiet in nature, and [...]

Hi,
This is indeed an important issue to support the schools in. During my teaching service, I learnt that the cyberworld is very very important to most youths nowadays. It probably stems from the lack of interaction between them and their parents as nowadays both parents are usually working. The cyberworld is an outlet for them. [...]