From Mashable.com: Justin Bieber has teamed up with MTV and Facebook to take a stand against cyberbullying. The teen star called for young people to post an action to MTV’s Draw Your Line, a virtual map and support forum that tracks efforts to stop digital abuse. To spur participation, Bieber is offering a chance to win one of 14 prizes just by [...]

In the wake of several high-profile cases of cyber bullying, a Denver-based company has created a Facebook application for youth to report violations to Facebook officials and connect to safety and crisis-support organizations. SafetyWeb’s application, launched Monday, links teens to organizations including the U.S.-based National Center for Missing & Exploited Children’s CyberTipline, the National Suicide Prevention Hotline and Facebook’s abuse [...]

This is a recent blog post from Kathy Mangold a Verbal Judo Instructor and co-creator of Manage Bullying: Answers for Parents. For young people today, having only a handful of close friends is an increasingly old-fashioned concept. While teens have always tended to travel in packs and cliques, an excellent article in yesterday’s Chicago Tribune made the case that the baseline for friendship [...]