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Denise Finkel (please don’t sue us), a student at The University of Albany in New York, is suing four of her former high school classmates for supposedly bullying and harassing her on Facebook. The lawsuit, filed in New York State Supreme Court, seeks damages of $3 million from the accused teens, their parents and the popular social networking site.

The defendants in the case, Michael Dauber, Jeffrey Schwartz, Leah Hertz and Melinda Danowitz, allegedly created a private, password-protected Facebook group that posted damaging statements about the plaintiff, including accusations that Finkel suffers from AIDS and took part in bestiality.

Increased reports of such Internet bullying and harassment have led to several other high profile lawsuits, and even prompted the European Union to actively fight Web harassment through an anti-bullying pact, which also seeks to protect under-age users from online predators. A total of 17 networking Web sites, led by MySpace and Facebook, signed the pact. MySpace and Facebook have also signed similar agreements in the United States with 49 State Attorneys General offices.

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Cyberbullied Teen Sues Ex-Classmates, Their Parents, and Facebook originally appeared on Switched on Wed, 04 Mar 2009 16:14:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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