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From: "billbelsey" <bill@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 15:50:10 -0000
Subject: [WWWEDU] News: Cyberbullies stalking online playground

Cyberbullies stalking online playground

Candy J. Cooper
The Record (Bergen County, N.J.)
Apr. 21, 2004 10:45 AM

HACKENSACK, N.J. - When 15-year-old Lauren went to hear a band
recently, the drummer autographed her stomach. It was meant as a joke
among friends, a parody of rock stars and their groupies. But the
musician's jealous girlfriend didn't see the humor.

"I'm gonna shoot you and bury you alive," the girlfriend threatened
Lauren in her online journal, read by many of her friends.

This avalanche of technologies - e-mail, instant messages, online
journals, polling sites, chat rooms, cellphones, text messages,
cellphone cameras - in the hands of youths almost ensures tech-
harassment, says William Belsey, an Alberta, Canada, educator who
coined the phrase "cyberbullying."

To see the full article:

http://www.azcentral.com/offbeat/articles/0421cyberbullies21-ON.html#

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