On Facebook, Bullies 'Like' if You Hate - NYTimes.com - 27 views
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shared by Roland Gesthuizen on 10 Sep 12
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It is too late to establish distance. To end cyberbullying, we must use the closeness we’ve allowed to breed to our advantage. We must teach them that if one is a cowardly, bullying, rage-baiter online – no matter how many laughs had or page views generated or ad space sold – then one is a bully off-screen, too.
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Both the older set of digital natives and the generation above us assume that the Internet is a bubble – a space with limits
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Rage-baiting is commonplace and infuriatingly successful, so the most prevalent language of the Internet is at its best cynicism and its worst outright meanness
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there is no wariness, no understanding, no concept of an Internet identity. There is no such thing for them, for example, as “Internet famous.” There is only fame, and the allure of instant gratification.