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NSHN Forum Support & On Topic Forums. Some additional boards are viewable to members only => Survivor Room => Topic started by: BA on October 29, 2012, 07:18:59 PM
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I've read three stories in the past 2 weeks or so about young people, aged 13-15, taking their own lives apparently due to online bullying on sites like, well, I'm not going to name any of them.
I can only say, that if this is happening to you, that you please get help, talk to someone - a family member, teacher, school guidance counsellor, Childline, the Samaritans...
We all know how addictive the web can be, how it can be hard to stay away from sites we like, but it is not worth suffering in silence to the point where you are harming yourself or want to end things. There is help if you need it.
If you are a parent, don't have the family PC in the child's room and please talk to them about the internet.
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Copied from article in Radio Times
Channel 4 is launching a new online project - DocYou - to run alongside a Hollyoaks storyline following the bullying of high school student Esther Bloom (played by Jazmine Franks).
The channel's flagship youth drama has been exploring sixth form student Esther's torment at the hands of her group of friends for the past few months. But the teasing from 'Queen Bee' Maddie Morrison and her two accomplices Sinead O'Connor and Ruby Button is set to escalate after the gang decide to exploit a bespoke micro-blogging website set up by fellow student Dylan. Esther's classmates abuse the site by posting humiliating content about her alongside embarrassing videos and comments that leave her feeling isolated and scared to go into college.
Hollyoaks has teamed up with Beatbullying and Channel 4 Education to launch DocYou which will explore the issues of bullying raised in the storyline, as well as transfer the lives of the classmates online using a range of videos, photos and text posts.
Channel 4's first fictional micro-blogging site aims to build on Esther's in-show storyline as well as highlight the major challenges faced by British teenagers, such as cyber bullying, relationships, privacy and the dangers and pitfalls of revealing too much online. The project is also designed to explore the impact of social media on every day life and showcase how easy it is to miss what is really happening on a site full of seemingly benign content.
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Susanna Lazarus