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 * In Missouri, cyber-bullying is considered a felony.
 * "It's not face-to-face, so the bully is more likely to say things they wouldn't normally say. Also, because there's no threat of physical confrontation, the bully feels invincible," Carley says.
 * According to the National Crime Prevention Center, more than 40 percent of teens with online access say they've been cyberbullied. Lundsten, Apryl. "Attacked Online." //Girls' Life// 16.7 (2010): 76. //MAS Ultra - School Edition//. EBSCO. Web. 29 Oct. 2010.

Khadaroo, Stacy Teicher. "Report: One-third of US teens are victims of cyberbullying." //Christian Science Monitor// 08 Oct. 2010: N.PAG. //MAS Ultra - School Edition//. EBSCO. Web. 4 Nov. 2010.
 * Sixty-eight percent of college students say they have thought someone close to them was crying out for emotional help through a public online posting, according to an Associated Press-mtvU Poll released Thursday. Thirteen percent say a friend has made a suicide attempt in the past year.
 * MTV is enlisting young people to set good standards for themselves with a new iPhone and iPad app called "Over the Line?" Users share and read personal stories about how cell phones and social networking have affected them, then rate whether they think the behavior crossed the line of what's appropriate. A similar Facebook application has had more than 120,000 users. Examples of teens' stories range from boyfriends making sex videos in secret and spreading them around school to people being taunted for being gay

Hayes, Susan. "Cyberbullies R 4 Real." //Current Health 2// 34.8 (2008): 16. //MAS Ultra - School Edition//. EBSCO. Web. 4 Nov. 2010.
 * Most targets know their aggressors, often quite well. "Almost 50 percent of **//cyberbullying//** incidents involve former close friends," says Parry Aftab, a lawyer and the executive director of WiredSafety.org, an online safety and help group.
 * Most teens who are cyberbullied feel the same way. "I have a list of 56 different reasons kids have given me for why they don't tell their parents," says Aftab. One of the most common is the fear that parents will take away a cell phone or computer privileges. Experts say cutting off online access is rarely the solution. "Being connected is everything to this generation," says Patchin. "Telling a kid who is being cyberbullied to just stay off the Internet is like telling a kid who is being bullied at school to just not go to school."


 * The most frequent online and in-school bullying involves name-calling or insults, and the online incidents most typically take place through instant messaging. Repeated school-based attacks increase the likelihood of repeated cyberbullying more than the use of any particular electronic communication tool, the study says.
 * In fact, some 72 percent of teens who are frequent Internet users say they've been the victim of online bullying at least once during the past year, with 90 percent of them saying they don't tell their parents about the online incidents, mainly because they feel the need to deal with the problem on their own and are fearful of parental restrictions on Internet use, the study adds. "Space Bullies." //School Library Journal// 54.11 (2008): 15. //MAS Ultra - School Edition//. EBSCO. Web. 4 Nov. 2010


 * Lori Drew helped create a fictional boy on MySpace, leading to a teen's suicide. Now she may go to jail for it. Megan Meier had big plans for her 14th birthday. Her braces would be off and she had lost weight, so her party would be a kind of coming out. She'd wear a brand-new sleeveless dress and a silver tiara. And she'd make a grand entrance, waltzing down the staircase in her Dardenne Prairie, Mo., home. But the party never happened; Megan never turned 14. On Oct. 16, 2006, three weeks before her birthday, she hanged herself with a cloth belt in her bedroom closet.
 * Two years later the woman Megan's parents believe drove their daughter to suicide stood trial in the nation's first federal **//cyberbullying//** case. Prosecutors said Lori Drew, 49, mother of Megan's best friend, helped create a MySpace profile for a fictional teenager, Josh, who flirted online with Megan before turning on and taunting her-a betrayal that happened the day Megan hanged herself. Drew faced charges that could have put her away for 20 years, but this Nov. 26 jurors found her guilty of three Internet-related misdemeanors that carry up to a three-year sentence and $300,000 fine. "Of course I wanted the maximum, but I still feel this is a victory," says Megan's mother, Tina Meier, 38. "Lori Drew knew right from wrong, and she chose to play this game. She needs to pay for what happened." Tresniowski, Alex, et al. "A CYBERBULLY CONVICTED." //People// 70.24 (2008): 73. //MAS Ultra - School Edition//. EBSCO. Web. 4 Nov. 2010.

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 * Tormented to death**
 * 90% of gay teens have been bullied within the last year.
 * Two-thirds say they feel unsafe in school.
 * Phoebe Prince's Legacy**
 * "the signs were there and there was no support."
 * An already troubled girl on Prozac and with a history of depression. After girls at her new chool started calling her a "slut" for her relationships with certain boys, she started cutting herself again, her mom said in grand jury testimony. "She wanted the pain to stop," according to Anne O'Brien Prince. Phoebe finally ended her life by hanging herself after a particularly difficult day of taunting. "If this can happen to an intelligent, beautiful girl, it can happen to anybody," Moore says.
 * Certainly hyer death provided a wake-up call for teachers and parents in South Handley.
 * I Was Bullied...**
 * on school staffer said to me, "Could you be a little less gay?"
 * In high school the nestyear, a kid with a knife told me, "your life is in my hands."
 * You can't show a reactionk, even a waver in your voice. They'll feed off that. You have to kind of feel bad for them. The need to feed off your sadness to be happy.
 * When I was about seven, i told some girls that my mom was white and my father was balck. One girl siad, "You do know that is illegal, and your parents are going to jail."
 * I wanted to fit in with the white people but i couldnt because i was black, i wanted to fit in with the black people but couldnt because i was withe.
 * The year i moved to the United State, the kids in my eight grade class called me a terrorist and told me to go back to Pakistan.
 * Confessions of a Bully**
 * "I thought of myself as a playful bully:I bullied with a smile on my face."
 * "I realized who I was, and I hated it"
 * Single Dad Laughing**
 * Every bullied kid quickly learns that to do anything //but// shrug it off, will //always// make it worse.
 * Death. Sweet death. I would have given anything for it to come. To me. To them. It didn't matter.
 * The school bus driver didn't help me. In fact, never once did a single person //ever// help me.
 * Perhaps the only image that needs to be shared in this discussion is this one, scanned in from my seventh grade yearbook. It was in 1993, and I'll never forget the haste with which I permanently disfigured my own photo so that those in my future would //never// be able to see that hideous, fat loser from my past.