Tuesday night a history graduate student at at George Mason University in Virginia stumbled across a threat made by a student against a St. Louis school on the Wikipedia page for Langston Hughes. He alerted history professors and other followers on Twitter. One of the history professors, Marjorie McLellan (@margiemcl on Twitter), grabbed a screen shot of the threat before Wikipedia removed it — without, apparently, notifying police or officials at Lift For Life Academy charter school, south of downtown St. Louis. -Socialmedia.biz

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Join the revolution. We are using social networking tools to combat cyber stalking. Ironic? We know. Let’s hope this works. Together we can make it happen! - quitstalkingme.com

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We made our first official sales on the Quit Stalking Me T-shirt yesterday thanks to you. Please keep supporting this website and help spread the word about preventing cyber stalking to your friends and family. Cyber stalking is a serious crime and cyber stalkers need to know that they can’t cowardly hide behind a computer forever!

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Did you know that 42% of kids have been bullied while online?  Did you know that 35% of kids have been threatened online?  Did you know that Palo Alto is home to the most popular Social Networking site in the world, Facebook?  Did you know that the Palo Alto School District DOES NOT have a cyber-bullying policy?  Surprised?  Me too. - Tangerine Times.

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“Bad guys can see all the things you post. You may be revealing personal information that is extremely valuable.”

Even seemingly innocent information posted on profile pages can sometimes provide opportunities for criminals.

For example, names of grandparents or pets in posted pictures can tip hackers off to answers for typical challenge questions asked before providing information about “forgotten passwords” to online accounts. - newsday.com

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Your cell phone, IM, and social networks are all a digital extension of who you are. When someone you’re with pressures you or disrespects you in those places, that’s not cool. - thatsnotcool.com

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Stalkers will use any form of media and communication to stalk their victims. Here is another breaking news story about another stalker.

BUFFALO, N.Y. — The college student had endured months of online and cell phone harassment from her ex-boyfriend. She ignored the barrage of e-mails, changed her phone number and dismantled online profiles to cut him off.

Then one evening, her cell phone signaled a new text message. It was him again.

“You should keep to yourself and stay away from other people,” the message said, according to the student, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because she feared for her safety. Her ex had found her photo online and attached it. - washingtonpost.com

A study of stalking by the U.S. Justice Department’s Bureau of Justice Statistics released last month confirmed that stalking by texting has become a pervasive problem.

The report found 23 percent of stalking or harassment victims reported in 2006 that the stalker had used some form of cyberstalking, such as cell phone texting or e-mail, to harass them. It was the agency’s first measure of the emerging practice, said Katrina Baum, one of the study’s authors.

“Technology has become a quick and easy way for stalkers to monitor and harass their victims,” the report said.

- washingtonpost.com

Currently there are only 46 states that have anti-stalking laws which refer to electronic forms of communication, of those, only four of the states use the term “text messaging”. If you are faced with a textual harasser, contact your wireless phone service provider and demand that you not be charged for these unwanted text messages.

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NEW YORK  —  A Long Island teenager is suing Facebook and four former high school classmates for allegedly bullying her in a private forum on the social networking site.

Denise Finkel, now a student at the University of Albany, filed suit in Manhattan for $3 million.

She’s claiming the former Oceanside High School classmates created a password protected Facebook group to — quote — “…hold the plaintiff up to public hatred, ridicule and disgrace.” - Fox News

Perhaps the teenager should be confronting the former high school classmates and holding them accountable for the harassment instead of Facebook about this issue. Although social networks such as Facebook make it a lot easier to bully others, especially anonymously and in groups…

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Facebook has been the victim of five different security problems in the past week, says Trend Micro.

According to the security firm, four hoax applications have become available on the social network along with a new variation of the Koobface virus, which was first detected at the end of last year, and directs users to a fake YouTube page where they are encouraged to install malware. - PC World

Facebook applications were never meant to be installed. If you are not sure what the application does exactly and receive an invite from an unknown person, don’t install the application to your profile! Most applications are useless, and keep in mind that anyone can create an application. That includes criminals and stalkers who have a lot more time on their hands to do terrible things like this.

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