It also was speculated that Harris and Klebold had carried out the shootings as retaliation for being bullied. Additionally, violent video games and music were blamed for influencing the killers.

School shooters often harbor anger and paranoid delusions, have low self-esteem and hang out with an outcast group, Farrenkopf said

They also tend to be obsessed with guns, violent video games or movies.

A survey of 214 secondary school heads found that 70 per cent believe Facebook and Twitter are ‘bad for literacy’.

Cyber slang is suspected of damaging students’ writing acumen.

The internet offers so many gateways to other pages, that it has made it difficult for us to focus on one piece of information at a time.