Analysis Of When Bullying Goes High-Tech By Elizabeth Landau

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The article “When Bullying Goes High-Tech,” by Elizabeth Landau is about a boy named Brandon Turley who gets cyberbullied. The website/link I got the article from is http://www.cnn.com/2013/02/27/health/cyberbullying-online-bully-victims/ . The intended audience for this article is anybody who wants to know real life examples/experiences of cyberbullying from someone else's perspective. The purpose of this article is to inform and explain why you shouldn’t bully someone online especially when you don’t know them. And also how what you say online can be seen by many people and could really hurt the person you targeted.

This article is about a boy named Brandon Turley who was cyberbullied extremely bad on MySpace. He decided

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