What is Cyberbullying?
1.
"Cyberbullying involves the use of information and communication
technologies such as e-mail, cell phone and pager text messages, instant messaging, defamatory personal Web sites, and defamatory online personal polling Web sites, to support deliberate, repeated, and hostile behaviour by an individual or group,
that is intended to harm others."
She was a victim of cyberbullying when she received threatening e-mail and mobile phone text messages.
2.
A phrase to describe the use of such entities as myspace, youtube, or any form of chat/free online discussion for the purpose of trash-talking one's peers. Used often by ill-informed middle aged "experts" such as teachers, soccer moms, liberal politicians, social workers, and school administrators who seek to demonize and censor myspace or any other free web usage.
Cyberbullying is often played up as a major threat to youth, although only a very small percent of young internet users are actually offended by others' trash talk and take it to heart enough to actually consider it bullying. And, as so often happens, a few ruin it for the rest of us.
Cyberbullying (among other suppposed causes)isn't what's making kids turn to violence, suicide, drugs, and rebellious ways. It's the fact that there are no morals or family structure in modern society anymore.
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