8.26.2004

Internet Gives Teenage Bullies Weapons to Wound From Afar: "The technology, which allows its users to inflict pain without being forced to see its effect, also seems to incite a deeper level of meanness. Psychologists say the distance between bully and victim on the Internet is leading to an unprecedented - and often unintentional - degree of brutality, especially when combined with a typical adolescent's lack of impulse control and underdeveloped empathy skills."

Let me say once again that I am so happy that I am not a kid right now. And let me also say to the parents out there: "Take the computers out of the kids' bedrooms and put them where you can see what they're doing."

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