{"id":156,"date":"2005-04-08T09:51:27","date_gmt":"2005-04-08T13:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2005\/04\/08\/instant-messenger-takes-a-beating\/"},"modified":"2005-04-08T09:51:27","modified_gmt":"2005-04-08T13:51:27","slug":"instant-messenger-takes-a-beating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2005\/04\/08\/instant-messenger-takes-a-beating\/","title":{"rendered":"Instant Messenger Takes a Beating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a4813'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td height=\"122\">\n<p align=\"justify\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/imaddicts.jpg\" align=\"left\"><em>The<br \/>\n        ubiquitous text messages via phones, handhelds and PCs have become the<br \/>\n          preferred means of communication for a generation of cell phone addicted<br \/>\n          youth.<br \/>\n          For<br \/>\n          speed,<br \/>\n          ease of use<br \/>\n        and constant access, you can&#8217;t beat instant messaging.&nbsp;You can,<br \/>\n        however, beat the messenger.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>        It began as innocent chatter over AOL Instant Messenger, the 14-year-old<br \/>\n            Dorchester girl said. But the flirting among teenagers soon escalated<br \/>\n            into a war of words.<\/p>\n<p>        The alleged payback was brutal, police said, ending with the girl<br \/>\n            beaten unconscious and left on train tracks near a T stop in Milton.<\/p>\n<p>        The girl, who spoke on condition that she not be named, shared the story<br \/>\n        yesterday of how a group of teenagers allegedly attacked her Wednesday<br \/>\n        after she got off the train, leaving her with bruises on her body and<br \/>\n        other injuries. Police say she was targeted because of Internet messages<br \/>\n        she<br \/>\n        sent.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/local\/articles\/2005\/04\/08\/victim_recounts_beating_at_t_stop\/\">Boston Globe<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ubiquitous text messages via phones, handhelds and PCs have become the preferred means of communication for a generation of cell phone addicted youth. For speed, ease of use and constant access, you can&#8217;t beat instant messaging.&nbsp;You can, however, beat &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2005\/04\/08\/instant-messenger-takes-a-beating\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[576],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wacky-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}