Cell Phones – The New Weapon of Choice

“Look out! I am going to defame you with my cell phone!”

“If cell phones are used incorrectly, they can become weapons,”  says an education board dude.

Cell phone blogs have become another source of funk, depression, for students in Japan…another reason to skip school maybe.

A junior high school girl posted defamatory comments on a cell phone blog which resulted in a 15-year old boy classmate going into a funk and missing school and whining to his mother and getting the police involved and…

The girls told the new student (boy) he was – “stupid” and “a facial lethal

weapon.”

When the boy posted the attacks by the girls on his blog, the girls threatened to force him to pay Y1.5 million….that would be more interesting to watch, I think.

The boy’s mom had to step in and contacted the school.

The girls finally apologized after the police also got involved.

Japan has problems with suicides…even in schools… Matters are not to be taken likely.

People used to call me names. And when I whined to my father, he responded with the ditty – Sticks and stones wil break my bones but names will never hurt me.”

It seems to me the kid could use some thicker skin, no?