Cyberbullying Concerns Raised Over Teen Use Of Social Networking Website

The New York Times (5/6, Lewin) reports, "Formspring.me, a relatively new social networking site, has become a magnet for comments, many of them nasty and sexual, among the Facebook generation. While Formspring is still under the radar of many parents and guidance counselors, over the last two months it has become an obsession for thousands of teenagers nationwide." According to the Times, "Formspring is one of many question-and-answer Internet sites that are widely used to find, say, the calorie count of avocados," yet Formspring "spread like wildfire among young people, who used it to for more intimate topics - or flat-out cyberbullying."