Heather Smith (formerly Pardo) said her 17 year-old son was involved in and injured in a fight January 18. “He ended up being taken to the hospital in an ambulance,” she said. “He was assaulted by a 15 year-old in the hallway of the high school.”

“Something needs to be done,” she continued. “This is not the first time. It has been going on. My children and other are always talking about students being picked on.” She said the same 15 year-old and a friend of his assaulted her son in a bathroom just a few months ago.

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Police say that they are connected to an explicit Twitter account under the handle @BurnBook10.

KFSM reports that the three taken into custody today were all females, including two 16-year-olds and one 17-year-old. Police say they’re responsible for making harassing updates to @BurnBook10.

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But Dr. Boyd — a senior researcher at Microsoft, an assistant professor at New York University and a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard — is a widely respected figure in social media research.

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According to the study,  Facebook is making us sad. Why? It’s all about the kinds of pictures people to post on their pages.

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In all three cases students were punished for posting obscene and derogatory information on students or school officials by using their home computers.

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She tweeted, “I’m so sorry @mrssosbourne and @MissKellyO for the abusive tweet from @Drealaloca I don’t think it’s right for people to use
twitter”…”to abuse and harass others. Just cause your hidden behind some computer like a coward doesn’t mean this isn’t bullying.”

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One of the Internet’s latest privacy controversies surrounds the rapidly-growing web site Isanyoneup.com.  The site, which launched in late 2010, is essentially a hybrid of social media and amateur pornography – described by some media outlets as a blog for “Revenge Porn.” The blog features thousands of posts containing extremely explicit photos of naked men and women, submitted by the site’s users.  While self-submit pornography sites aren’t all that uncommon, the real difference with Isanyoneup.com – and the true reason for the firestorm it has caused – is that the majority of the pictures on the site are not submitted by the people in those pictures. Instead, the site serves its purpose as a forum where jilted exes and revenge-seekers may share the most intimate photos of those towards whom they wish to retaliate (perhaps another variant of cyberbullying?). As if that was not enough, the blog has developed over time to include screenshots of the Facebook profiles and Twitter feeds of the people featured on the site.

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A program launching December 13th enables users to instantly connect with a crisis counselor through Facebook’s “chat” messaging system.

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The goal is to build relationships that benefit you and the organization, and to create communications and experiences that inform, engage, position, and—ultimately—foster behavioral change. The goal is not to create and distribute a lot of stuff, or win a bunch of communications awards, although we sometimes lose sight of that. Relationships will always matter most; but how we maintain and strengthen those relationships will vary greatly based on new technologies and communications preferences driven by age, ethnicity, race, gender, wealth, and other demographic factors.

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“It is important to control social networks,” Gaudreault said Thursday, adding that France is doing so already.

He called on Education Minister Line Beauchamp to intervene with Facebook, and proposed that school boards take in hand students who are victims of bullies so that no one “slips through the net.”

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