Yet another reason I will never, ever have an account with Facebook or other social media ( Read more... )

Local News | Seattle Times Newspaper

Children 11 years old and up may be unaware of the likelihood of getting caught at using the Internet to harass, bully, and intimidate others, but they sure as hell are capable of behaving like yahoos and worse. What teaches them not to be yahoos and worse is getting caught at it, publicly and loudly, and ( Read more... )

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/20/justine-williams-bullying_n_851723.html

Fourteen-year-old cancer survivor Justine Williams thought her struggles were behind her -- until she started receiving threatening messages from the last ( Read more... )

TSA Officer Admits Plot to Post Porn on Christian Site

On April 10, Bob Seashols, a Coordination Center Officer for the Transportation and Security Administration (TSA) at the Richmond International Airport (RIC) and an administrator for Atheists United’s Facebook page, took part in a coordinated effort to populate pornographic images, extreme ( Read more... )

http://thestir.cafemom.com/big_kid/115192/high_school_fails_all_girlsRead more... )

http://www.mydaily.com/2011/03/21/facebook-smut-list-cyberbullying-linnese-ortega/

Over the past year, cyberbullying, in its myriad forms, has become one of the biggest issues affecting America's teens, notably leading at least one, ( Read more... )

http://www.parentdish.com/2011/01/19/mean-girls-in-trouble-for-cyberstalking-teen-on-fake-facebook-pa/

In a real-life twist that could have come straight from the script of "Mean Girls," two underage Florida teens ( Read more... )

I just had a sudden idea for a short story -- or maybe a novella -- which I'll never write (it's not my thing as far as writing goes), but I'd love to read if it were written by a really good writer (such things are my thing when it comes to reading). It's about Internet trolls -- or, rather, two trolls at odds with each other ( Read more... )

http://www.aolnews.com/nation/article/facebook-bullies-charged-after-victim-ally-pfeiffer-tracks-them-down-online/19752184Read more... )

Courtesy of cutelildrow, I just learned the following about yamamanama, a notorious troll who has been pestering several of us on LiveJournal lately. It seems that in addition to being a pest so well-known for his asshole behavior online -- for more on which, see Yamamanama - GFWiki; how many trolls do you know of who have their very own wiki ( Read more... )