Tag: BULLY

A boy from Sydney, Australia has gone from victim to Internet hero practically overnight. A recently posted video shows the 16-year-old Casey Heynes absorbing abuse from a much smaller (and younger) bully before finally snapping, lifting the other boy in the air and slamming him to the concrete -- hard. The footage has made the rounds not only online, but onto mainstream media news shows in the ...

The Internet and social networking may have given bullies a new venue through which to torment their targets, but what they often forget is that it has also given their victims a new avenue through which to seek recourse. Alexis Xanders realized this and took video someone had recorded of her being harassed, and ultimately punched in the face, and posted it on YouTube and CNN's iReport. The ...

Cyber-bullying has become a major issue around the world. Teens across the U.S. and across the pond in Europe find themselves constantly faced with this new form of harassment. But if we had to pick one place as the epicenter of this disturbing new trend it would be Missouri. The home state of Megan Meier, a girl who committed suicide just before her 14th birthday as a result of being bullied ...

Cyber-bullying and Web-related deaths have become increasingly troubling in Great Britain, particularly since over a one-year period 17 teens haved killed themselves, allegedly because of social networking sites. The suicides even prompted the head of the U.K. Roman Catholic Church to comment that "a key factor in their committing suicide is the trauma of transient relationships," referring to the ...

Cyber-bullying is nothing new. In fact almost as long as there has been an Internet, there have been people cold enough to use it for public mocking and abuse. Although it's one thing to post mean things on MySpace or harass someone via IM, it's yet another when there is a site that is essentially completely dedicated to anonymous cyber-bullying. PeoplesDirt.com has been shut down twice since ...

It used to be that so called cyber-bullying merely meant harassing someone via instant message or saying mean things on MySpace, but online bullying is increasingly becoming a full-on public multimedia blitz of photos, videos, and fake user profiles. Take for example the case of Ricky Alatorre, a 16 year-old with plenty of book smarts, but not a whole lot of friends. Someone snapped a picture ...