Ron Bellanti - Right Now Against Bullying

Wednesday, January 22, 2014

13-Year-Old Plans to Use Social Media to Track Bullying Nationwide


Viraj Puri of Great Falls, Virginia is collaborating with a computer scientist to create a heat map to track bullying. The system would track cyber-bullying from sites like Twitter, Facebook and YouTube.


13-year-old Puri became involved with the anti-bullying movement after witnessing his older brother being harassed on a regular basis. His mother, Aparna Puri, said that this project shows that there are productive ways to channel frustration at bullies: “Anger is always negative. But to make something out of it…I think it’s brilliant.”

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