When I was speaking on Cyber Safety there was a famous Cyber Bullying case in Florida. Two girls used a fictional social media account and “led on” another unpopular girl who was not considered to be good looking or part of the “in” crowd. After first pretending to like her, they then destroyed her hope by using the fictional account to be very, very cruel. It was widely believed that due to the cruelty inflicted from the fictional social media account the targeted girl committed suicide.
As you can imagine this ignited the fury of every mom who ever had a child who was bullied. One local newspaper ran a story on their website with pictures of the girl who took her life and pictures of these two high school girls who executed the stunt. Continue reading How to Pass On Hate To Your Children