This third, loosely-related post will concentrate primarily on the New York Times and its excellent education-focused series on cyberbullying. Some of the impetus for the Times coverage appears to have been the tragic suicide of 15-year-old Phoebe Prince which, while occurring largely in a school environment, also involved elements of cyberbullying (texting and websites are [...]

With my previous post in mind, I want to concentrate on a couple of the more negative reactions, one obvious and one not so much. First, I mentioned Formspring in an earlier post, so this is a reminder of the more clearly pernicious end of the social networking spectrum. To recap, Formspring allows online friends [...]