Inside Higher Ed reports on cyberbullying at university.
There are confession pages and websites, on Facebook and elsewhere. Universities have no way to block access to them.
Most posts are innocent confessions about crushes and pranks — or just hoaxes — but occasionally, students use the sites to launch anonymous attacks and start rumors. That’s what happened recently at Hopkins, where a confessions page on Facebook turned into “a hub for cyberbullying and controversial posts about race and sexual orientation,” according to the independent student newspaper The Johns Hopkins News-Letter. [Read more…]