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Technologies enable harassment and bullying, but the law may be catching up.
Let us hope the law catches up. But parents need to be the ones not allowing their kids on these social networking sites unsupervised too.
A girl in St. Louis committed suicide after being bullied by the mother of another gal in her class via facebook. The mother, though tried, got off because the laws didn't exist to make what she did a crime.
You are correct in referencing parental responsibility to this topic, and just as the age old configuation of children sitting infront of televisions for hours, unattented by parents who use the TV as a way to take a rest from parenting, seems that these social networks and the internet in general just add to that capability, meaning parents allow for the interent to free them from parenting.
It is like allowing your kid to run with the wrong people.
Responsible parenting would likely stop such things.
The St. Louis girl suicide was really bad. I could not even imagine.
That story should be enough to wake up any parent to the fact that internet activity of kids should be monitored.
Actually having computers not be in the kids rooms would be a good measure.
Use to be christian groups stating that Judas Priest songs induced suicide, but with the internet the true causes of teen suicide is revealed, and that is the alienation that sets in when kids are continually teased, bullied, and victims to cruel hoax.
As for the women who created the online hoax for Megan, the St. Louis girl, she should be jailed for a long time, but unfortunately justice is lost to the oddity of the case.
The Mass. suicide will set a judicial precedence.....hopefully.
I didn't read the story, but what is GPS stalking/bullying?
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