Cyber-Bullying: Online Bullies Attack via Formspring.me

Formspring.me is a fairly new social network that allows users to anonymously send questions and comments to each other’s Inboxes.  Frequent comments range from “What is your favorite color?” to “No 1 likes u in skool,” or worse.  The site has become a playground for cyber bullies all over the country, and many school officials and parents are unaware of it.  It is the website’s dangerous combination of anonymity and zero accountability that makes it such fertile ground for hostility.

To find out how Formspring.me affects young students, one doesn’t have to look very far. Larissa Macedo, a senior at Barnstable High School in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, admitted that the site “was really hostile and made me feel so bad about myself. I just felt attacked.”  Unfortunately, there are many other teens who agree with Macedo’s account.

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