How to Be a Bully in the MySpace / YouTube Generation

I guess this might be a bit off-topic for the subject of data security this week, but one of the things I like to pursue in this class are how ethics apply to information technology. You’ve probably heard of this incident in the last couple of days where a young girl in Florida allegedly said some unkind things about her friends on MySpace, so her “friends” retaliated by videotaping themselves beating her into unconsciousness and threatening to post the beating on MySpace and YouTube.

Here’s another link to the story from NBC’s The Today Show. with other cyberbullying links in the article.