"Any adult who uses the internet or a social gathering website to bully or harass another person, particularly a young teenage girl, needs to realise that their actions can have serious consequences, " said Los Angeles federal prosecutor Thomas O'Brien, who brought the charges.

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The higher a student rose on the social ladder, the more likely they were to bully others -- and to be bullied themselves.

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Mr. Bush may have to do what he's done with Social Security over the past few months: using his bully pulpit to try to sell a skeptical nation on a major policy change.

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Turley and Rigal, who is now a freshman at Columbia University, are currently promoting the idea of having a "bully button" on Facebook so that people can formally report cyberbullying to the social network and have bullies suspended for a given period of time.

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