Are the Palin Girls Cyberbullies?

[babsbunny]

http://www.slate.com/id/2275272/?GT1=38001

Analyzing their Facebook flame war.
By Emily BazelonPosted Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2010, at 4:53 PM ET

Warning: This article contains profanity as quoted from Willow and Bristol Palin's Facebook posts. Also in Slate, read the rest of Emily Bazelon's series on cyberbullying.

While the premiere of Sarah Palin's reality show was pulling in record ratings for TLC Sunday night, her daughters Willow and Bristol Palin were apparently going to the mat on Facebook. The girls, who are 16 and 19, were defending the show from posters who said they didn't like it. The fight seems to be real: Bristol has apologized for herself and her sister and the whole exchange has a ragged and raw tone that would be hard to fake—and is nothing like the carefully constructed TV show they were standing behind.

[LostInAnomie]

1. No

Can we please quit trying to make every action we don't like out to be bullying?

[Bucky]

3. So you're now telling me what I can and can't think? Um, bully much?

I keed, I keed!

[Kaleva]

2. No

[Taverner]

4. Yes, but who cares?

[GodlessBiker]

5. Yes.

[DainBramaged]

6. Her Mom is a bully why not

[MissMarple]

7. Well, they do seem to have some spelling and grammar lapses.

Even considering their ages, the name calling is bullying. It also sounds like they have had a lot of practice at it. I suppose they learned that from their parents.

[emilyg]

8. No.

[tammywammy]

9. No n/t

[AsahinaKimi]

10. No..

just idiots, like mom!