The word “bullying”

What do you think? Think we should use the word bullying? John Fugelsang argues (in this video): “Bullying is a flaccid, outdated, archaic, Archie’s comic term. It’s quaint. It’s useless. It’s toothless. […] It doesn’t do any justice to the kind of brutalizing that would drive a kid to kill him or herself. […] The

Word bully. Word.

There’s new Android app out, it’s called Word Bully. At first when you watch this video, it comes out sounding like a YouTube joke or parody. It is, in fact, a legit app. It just came out last week and is free to download until October 15th. After that, it will cost $9.99 on Android

Cyberbullying myths debunked.

Cyberbullying myths. Yes. You may think to yourself: I don’t even know enough about cyberbullying to know about what myths are prevailing about it. Chances are, however, that you do. What you know is most probably being fed to you by well-meaning people writing stuff (blogs/news stories/articles) on the Internet and beyond. I’d like to

You mess with my privacy settings…you mess with my life, Facebook.

For most of us life without Facebook is like a life that isn’t being properly lived. If we can’t share photos, random thoughts, links, and so forth with our friends, it’s like we’re not properly engaging in communicating with them. So…when someone changes stuff about our privacy settings, it hits home. All of a sudden….