Teens who are addicted to the Internet are more likely than non-addicted adolescents to self-injure, a new study shows. Researchers in China surveyed 1,618 youths between the ages of 13 and 18 on self-injurious behaviours like burning, cutting or hitting themselves, and gave participants a test to indicate if they were addicted to the Internet.
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If you log onto the webcam site Chatroulette.com, you might see an impromptu comedy performance, a celebrity, or a naked man sitting in front of a webcam. Brad Stone of the New York Times wrote an article on Chatroulette that said about 10 percent of the videos on the site are from naked males in front of webcams.
Three high school students in Newburyport, Massachusetts, have been charged with identity theft after allegedly bullying a classmate using Facebook. The three students, all 14, allegedly stole the student's identity by creating a Facebook page using his name and photo.
Police have named Jarred Harrell, 24, a person of interest in the abduction and murder case of a seven-year-old Florida girl. Somer Thompson was abducted in October 2009, while walking home from school with her older sister and twin brother. Somer's body was found in a Georgia landfill two days later.
