Tag: CYBER BULLYING

In most democratic countries, teenage gossip and name-calling rarely leave the realm of a high school cafeteria. In the hyper transparent age of Facebook, though, and especially in the authoritarian Republic of Indonesia, adolescent catfights are settled by civil courts -- and can often lead to jail time. A judge in Jakarta recently sentenced a teenage girl to 75 days in prison after she was ...

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 ...

We're pretty sure that many victims of bullies would gladly go back to the good ol' days, when mocking and persecution didn't have the speed and reach the Internet affords. But bullies are quickly finding out that the Web doesn't provide as much protective anonymity as they may have thought. One of the new avenues for bullying is impersonation via social networking sites. But four teens in Cook ...

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 ...

Top-paid models may have luxurious, pampered lives, but they are also frequently targeted by bitter, jealous cretins. Take for example Canadian model Liskula Cohen. She has been targeted by a cyber-bully for, well, being a beautiful, successful model, CBS News reports. We will assume for now that the person who created the Google-hosted blog Skanks in NYC has none of the aforementioned ...

According to the Associated Press, 21-year-old Nicole Williams faces criminal charges after sending vulgar and threatening text messages to a 17 year-old girl. She is one of the first in Missouri to be charged under the state's cyber-bullying law. The law was created in response to the 2006 suicide of 13 year-old Megan Meier. According to the charges, Williams left voice and text messages on the ...

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 ...