(((Muffy))) - thanks for posting this and I think you should also post this in the LGBTQ forum as well.

At the beginning of the year my daughter was cyber bullied by 2 of her classmates. She was friends with a boy from her Karate class - he seemed very nice. I'm usually a good judge of character and he really fooled me. His parents divorce last summer and he moved to live with his father, which meant he had to change schools. So his mother asked if it would be alright, if she requested him to be in my daughters class. He kept asking my daughter to be his girlfriend(they're only 12). She always told him "no" and he started telling all the other kids, they were 'going out'. She kept telling everyone he's lieing and they're 'just friends'. He became angry and told her "we're not friends" which was fine with my daughter, but she didn't know this would make them enemies. He teamed up with another girl who was jealous of my daughter and they started bullying her at school and cyber bullying her on MSN and Facebook. You wouldn't believe the awful swear words and slander they typed out to her. We copied and printed out everything - I gave a copy to his dad and the principle. This all happened for a month and it was a terrible way to start the school year.

Luckily it stopped and those kids are blocked from her computer and she has safety settings in place now. The boy also moved back to his old school and is now living with his mother.

I think cyber bullying is a real problem and the worst case I heard of occured in the U.S. when a mother falsely befriended a former friend of her daughter and pretended to be a boy, interested in this girl. Her intentions were to get her completely enthralled with this 'pretend boy' and then brutally 'drop' her. The poor young lady became so devastated that she committed suicide. Thanks again Muffy