Digital+Citizenship+gone+wrong

Being a Digital Citizen can also go horribly wrong... find an article online that talks about how social networking/mobile phones/chat rooms etc. have had a terrible impact on peoples lives.

Research online then... Below Summerise the article in 2 or 3 sentences, attach the link to the story and add your name.

After everyone has posted a summary we will discuss how we can avoid these situations, participate in preventing these situations and be... GOOD DIGITAL CITIZENS :)

Two female 14 year students had a falling out. One of the girls created a fake myspace account, she pretended to be a boy. The friend she fell out with started talking to the 'fake-boy', it started out ok until the boy started sending abusive messages like 'you are a bad person, everyone hates you, the world would be a better place without you', the girl committed suicide after this cyber-bully attack. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_of_Megan_Meier -Miss Anna

"Last month something tragic happened: An 18-year-old Rutgers University freshman, Tyler Clementi, committed suicide after discovering that his roommate had hidden a Web cam in their dorm room and used it to broadcast a homosexual encounter Clementi had." http://www.mehdijangjou.com/news_4_Digital-Citizenship.html Bank

The proposition was that the Clementi case is an example of a large-scale social problem: People who are bad digital citizens. This problem, the "researchers" argue is growing and, as of July this year, 30 states had enacted electronic harassment laws and five had laws specifically against cyberbullying. Patty

Freshman Tyler Clementi jumped off a bridge a few days after his sexual encounter with another man was broadcast online. Clementi's roommate, Dharun Ravi, and Ravi's friend Molly Wei were arrested on invasion of privacy charges. They haven't said why they allegedly broadcast the video, but by all accounts, they were good students who had no history of cruel behavior. ~Courtney



As soon as the Microsoft Kinect came out last year, [|programmers and hackers pounced] on it in the hope of using it for anything but its intended use as a wireless addition for the Microsoft Xbox that uses a person’s movement as a game controller.- SuJin http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/tag/microsoft/?scp=6&sq=As%20soon%20as%20the%20Microsoft%20Kinect%20came%20out%20last%20year,%20programmers%20and%20hackers%20pounced%20on%20it%20in%20the%20hope%20of%20using%20it%20for%20anything%20but%20its%20intended%20use%20as%20a%20wireless%20addition%20for%20the%20Microsoft%20Xbox%20that%20uses%20a%20person’s%20movement%20as%20a%20game%20controller&st=Search

A 11 year old girl was spending too much time on the internet and people started bullying her and calling her names. She decided to post many inappropriate pictures of her on the net which made her think that it may shut people up, but it didn't. She also started talking about her life and her her father is so protective and things like that. http://www.truecrimereport.com/2010/07/jessica_leonhardt_aka_jessi_sl.php Prisca*~*

Friends can Suck
Me and this girl Samantha M. use to be the best of friends. We would go to Hot Topic together and just rave and rant about boys. Whenever I moved to Fort Polk L.A. we grew farther apart, never talked or anything. When I finaly moved back to Dallas we would hang out ocasionaly (don't spell very well.) One day she was talking to her boyfriend in Ohio and she had to do something so she handed the phone to me. Me and Lewis clicked instantly, we started talking more and became best friends. Whenever Sam found out she got jelous and called me names over FaceBook and Myspace, I regret to inform you that I replyed nastily. The usual fat jokes and random things. Now me and her never talk anymore because she made me cry and tryed to take back every thing she said. I said, "this isn't the first time we have faught like this and I am tyered of it." I left her with her mouth open and crying. I wanted to stop the friendship before anyone got hurt too badly.—Guest Teighlor L. http://familyinternet.about.com/u/ua/computingsafetyprivacy/Cyberbullyua.htm Vivian1299570755

Digital Warfare ::::: Critics of the government dominate more than three quarters of the Internet discussions but now the ruling party – or at least its supporters - is beginning to fight back. _JANEYYY http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2011/3/5/focus/8191894&sec=focus

==Vincent: __ Megan Meier __ was a 13 year old from Missouri who struck up an online friendship on the popular social networking site __ MySpace __ with a person she believed was a new boy in her hometown. In actuality, the “friend” was a group of individuals, including adults, who were intent on humiliating the poor girl because of a friendship with another child that had gone awry. Megan was very upset when she found out the truth, then later committed suicide once the friendship had terminated. The horrifying case stunned the community and caused state government officials to pass some of the harshest __ cyber bullying laws __ in the country. == ==**http://www.cyberbullyalert.com/blog/2008/10/stories-of-cyber-bullying/** ==

 Ivy:In South Korea, a female college student was riding the train with her dog when it defecated on the floor of the subway car. After the girl refused to clean up the mess, another passenger on the train took her picture using her cell phone and posted it online. In the months to follow, it became an Internet sensation in South Korea and “Dog Poop” girl became the target of extreme harassment. Individuals found out her name and address and soon she was forced to withdraw from school and move to another part of the country.

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