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Originally Posted by Toilet & Bowels

the point is that at school if you are being bullied there's not much you can do if other kids are out to get you, you can't escape. if you're on the internet and people are sending you messages and it's upseting you then turn off the computer. it seems to me that this kid must have pesisted in using bebo even though it was making his life a misery, which seems really stupid.

yes, but nowadays for a lot of kids it's as hard to walk away from the internet as from the kids in the park.
for them, socially, it's as important, possibly even more, to "be" in the internet as it is to be in the park.