Bullying is bad in general, and you would think that bullying is worse in person than over the internet, think again. In the past few years, face book and other social networking websites like myspace are getting amazingly popular, and making lots of money from ads. Their are good things about these websites like the fact that you can talk to people that you haven't seen a while, or your friends that you see everyday. But then theirs a dark side to it. Everyday, hundreds of kids are getting bullyed or having fights over face book. And in the past, this has lead to serious things such as suicide, and running away.
I got a great article on this subject o Technorati.com. The whole thing is about face book and people who are helping. There's a club called "the trevor project", that helps a lot with cyber bullying. Theres also an application called "find help" that facebook and safety web came up with. Pretty much, it helps in detecting any abuse of peers occurring on the site. Not only can cyber bullying be detected, but so can depression, suicide, drug abuse, hate, and last but not least, runaways. This makes me happy that face book is doing social action to help us kids of america.
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