When reports emerged that a teenaged Mitt Romney served as ringleader in tormenting a gay high school classmate, he issued an apology but said he couldn’t recall the transgression. But as Romney guns for the White House, this alleged incident has tongues wagging about the correlation between leadership and bullying—and how much of a bearing [...]
Jun 27, 2012 | Categories:Brainsnacks, Trends, Youth | Tags: adolescence, bullying, bullying research, bullying studies, high school, Kerry Kennedy, leadership, leadership trends, Mitt Romney, presidential election 2012, teenager, White House | Leave A Comment »
[Originally posted on Euro RSCG’s Social Life and Social Media blog.] This week, Facebook confirmed that it is developing parental control technology that will allow children under the age of 13 to use the site. My first question: What took it so long? Currently, those aged 13 and under are supposedly prohibited from creating a [...]
Jun 11, 2012 | Categories:Advertising, Features, Social Media, Technology, Youth | Tags: bullying, children, Consumer Reports, cyberbullying, Facebook, Federal Trade Commission, Jon Leibowitz, parental control technology, parents, social network, tweens, Wall Street | Leave A Comment »
On Korea’s Hug Day (Dec. 14), Twitter was a hotbed of niceness: The hashtag #stopcyberbullying trended when Miley Cyrus tweeted against cyberbullies in defense of her friends Kelly and Sharon Osbourne. Sadly, though, bullying continues—despite widespread efforts to stanch it, including new laws in Michigan, a movement in the U.K. to broaden the definition of [...]
Jan 10, 2012 | Categories:Brainsnacks, Social Media, Trends, Youth | Tags: #stopcyberbullying, anger, anger management, anti-bullying legislation, anti-bullying policies, behavior, bullies, bullying, career, cyberbullying, Miley Cyrus, office, Social Media, Steve Jobs, teen suicides, Twitter, workplace | Leave A Comment »
Believe it or not, one of the reasons I love going to the gym is that it allows me to watch uninterrupted television for the 45 minutes to an hour that I am on the elliptical machine. During a recent workout, I caught a repeat of a Bravo special featuring the Real Housewives of New [...]
Sep 15, 2010 | Categories:Features, Media | Tags: brand, Bravo, bullying, housewife, New Jersey, Russ Meyer, teenagers, The Real Housewives of New Jersey | Leave A Comment »
When most people think of bullying, schoolyard scenes of children being terrorized by bigger kids often come to mind. I would never have thought about cyberbullying being a problem in today’s society. Although I grew up digital, cyberworld (or in today’s terms, social media) bullying never came up. According to Stop Cyberbullying, cyberbullying is “when [...]
Aug 29, 2010 | Categories:Features, Social Media, Technology | Tags: 4chan, Adrian Chen, Brands, bullying, child, cyberbullying, Gawker, Gawker Media, harassment, Internet, Jessi Slaughter, mobile phones, preteen, Social Media, Stop Bullying Now!, Stop Cyberbullying, teen, vlogger | Leave A Comment »
