This talks about the kids and the effects it could have on them.
"October 2011 marks the eighth annual National Cyber Security Awareness Month, sponsored by the Department of Homeland Security. The overarching theme for National Cyber Security Awareness Month is "Our Shared Responsibility," which reflects the interconnectedness of the modern world and the message that all computer users have a role in securing cyberspace. This is especially true when it comes to keeping our children safe in a worldwide environment."
CBS) Officials in Massachusetts believe there's been another deadly case of cyber-bullying in the apparent suicide of 15-year-old Phoebe Prince of South Hadley, Mass.
Prince moved last year to the area from Ireland. While making the transition to a new town and a new country, Prince, officials believe, became the target of intense cyber-bullying, which may have contributed to her apparent suicide.
A friend who did not want to be identified told CBS News, "She was being bullied because she was pretty and people were just jealous."Prince's classmate also said he was one of her closest friends, but she never revealed her pain.
Meline Kevorkian, the author of "101 Facts About Bullying" told CBS News, "Cyber-bullying can be so dangerous because it can lead to cyber-mobbing, which means kids can come together to attack another kid, 24 hours a day, seven days a week."
Prince's unidentified friend said, "It just makes me sad that it takes the life of a young teenager who had everything going for her to bring the community together to have them realize how bad bullying is."
kids should "know that they are loved and that people care about them, and they can make it through this."
This is completely out of hand. There is no reason that this girl should be dead. Cyberbullying is, I believe the worst form of bullying, because some of the people who bully others online don't have the guts to admit it face-to-face with their victims.
Everyone is getting bullied online. When you are able to communicate with other people online and in virtual worlds like xbox live and the playstation network, you much more open to cyberbulling.
The late Steve Jobs speaks to members of the media during an Apple product unveiling event in San Francisco in 2010. Apple and Jobs have a record of taking existing technologies and redesigning them with an emphasis on visual simplicity. (David Paul Morris, Bloomberg / October 26, 2011) 8:14 p.m.
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This ibook is being used on our ipads to inform the students.