{"id":12,"date":"2003-11-18T06:34:00","date_gmt":"2003-11-18T06:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.starcoder.com\/wordpress\/?p=64"},"modified":"2021-10-30T20:09:08","modified_gmt":"2021-10-30T20:09:08","slug":"cyber-bullying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.starcoder.com\/wordpress\/2003\/11\/cyber-bullying\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyber Bullying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today there was an article in the Detroit Free Press about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freep.com\/money\/tech\/mwend17_20031117.htm\">cyber bullying<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slashdot.org\/\">Slashdot<\/a> also had a <a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/articles\/03\/11\/17\/2017232.shtml?tid=146&amp;tid=158&amp;tid=99\">story<\/a> linking to the article. It&#8217;s amazing to me that these things happen, though I can&#8217;t say that I&#8217;m surprised. Kids have always done some pretty mean things, and technology now has armed them with new ways to take offense toward their peers.<\/p>\n<p>Junior high and high school were already tough enough without other students taking &#8220;spy&#8221; photos and composing entire websites to give you a bad reputation.  I want to know what gives these students such a strong urge to spend the time to make a website, just to put someone else down.  I&#8217;d also be interested to find out how widespread this problem really is.  It&#8217;s one thing to have it happen at a couple of schools, but if it&#8217;s turning into a pretty common practice, it&#8217;s definitely something to be concerned about.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve always thought of technology as a very good learning tool to have in schools, but it seems that it may have come too far and has started to do more harm than good.  I can see cell-to-cell video coming in the near future (see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsfactor.com\/perl\/story\/22696.html\">TV service on Sprint<\/a>), but what new doors of &#8220;cyber bullying&#8221; will that open?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today there was an article in the Detroit Free Press about cyber bullying. Slashdot also had a story linking to the article. It&#8217;s amazing to me that these things happen, though I can&#8217;t say that I&#8217;m surprised. Kids have always done some pretty mean things, and technology now has armed them with new ways to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.starcoder.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.starcoder.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.starcoder.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starcoder.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starcoder.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.starcoder.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":778,"href":"https:\/\/www.starcoder.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions\/778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.starcoder.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starcoder.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starcoder.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}