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IROC2 will use the story about Cyber Bullying in Suburban Family Magazine's April, 2010 issue to launch a series of initiatives including a blog, PSA and C.E.L. Statement to assist in providing Cyber "Bullies" or Harassers" a Digital Consciousness™.

I rolled my eyes when the Library of Congress announced in the spring of 2010 that it would be archiving Twitter. Great, I thought - drunken tweets about burritos preserved for eternal posterity. But the Library of Congress, as it turns out, was more forward thinking than I could have imagined. Twitter data, presumed to represent the pulse - and sometimes the future - of popular consciousness, now commands big bucks from hedge funds that in turn use Twitter data to make investment predictions. Even scientists are tapping into Twitter data for research purposes.

This piece serves not only to assist victims of cyber bullying through information and common sense, but to protect potential bullies from altering their own lives from the self-inflicted damage digital harassment can do to their own future.