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But that’s not all they’re doing to up their ratings in video-sharing sites, the New York Times reports: “boys holding cell phones under the lunch table to photograph up girls' skirts; an innocent kiss at a party posted out of context on an ex-boyfriend's Web site; someone bursting in on friends who are in the bathroom or sleeping, drinking or smoking; students goading teachers into tantrums; … [Read more...] about Acting out for the videocam

The cyberbullying case involving four Long Island, N.Y., teenage girls and – it is now being alleged – the victim's boyfriend has turned out to be a real puzzle for parents, police, and school officials to solve (see last week's issue ). We find in "A family stunned," a later, more in-depth report from Newsday , that the victim says she first met her attackers when they approached to attack. The … [Read more...] about Teens’ fight video: Closer look

Among other things, this disturbing incident shows clearly that cyberbullying has nothing to do with gender. Three teenage girls, two 14 and one 13, "were arrested Tuesday on charges that they punched and kicked another girl and recorded the beating so they could broadcast it online," the Associated Press reports. Police on Long Island in New York said the video, uploaded to two Web sites, "showed … [Read more...] about Teen cyberbullies charged

More on social engineering, actually - which I featured last week. The little snippet about "anti-social networking" at the bottom of "Mr. Know-It-All's" column in Wired, after advice about checking spouses' browser history and whether IM-ing is ruining teenagers' spelling and grammar, is really about social engineering. It offers advice to users who have problems with friends on the social Web: … [Read more...] about ‘Anti-social networking’

Two professors who have been focusing on cyberbullying for some time just presented a study of teenage MySpace use which found "most teens are behaving responsibly in the type of information they post about their lives," the Miami Herald reports. Prof. Sameer Hinduja, a criminology professor at Florida Atlantic University, and Justin Patchin, an assistant professor of criminal justice at the … [Read more...] about Most teens safe in MySpace: Study