What is cyberbullying?
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Shawn Edgington answered:In simplistic terms, cyberbullying occurs when a minor uses technology to deliberately and repeatedly engage in hostile behavior to harm or threaten another minor, and is against the law.In simplistic terms, cyberbullying occurs when a minor uses technology to deliberately and repeatedly engage in hostile behavior to harm or threaten another minor, and is against the law. More -
Raychelle Lohmann answered:Cyberbullying is defined as deliberate and repeated harm inflicted through the use of cell phones/Smartphones, computers/tablets, and other electronic devices (including WiFi gaming devices).Most cyberbullying cases involve teens, but research is showing it's not just teens being mean online. Cyberbullying is an easier way to bully because it doesn't involve face to face interaction. It's a lot easier to say or do something unkind online than face to face. Cyberbullying hurts. The key to decreasing cyberbullying is educating today's youth to think before they click. One wrong click has the power to change someone's life forever.
Cyberbullying is defined as deliberate and repeated harm inflicted through the use of cell phones/Smartphones, computers/tablets, and other electronic devices (including WiFi gaming devices).Most cyberbullying cases involve teens, but research is... More -
RealAge answered:If you have a teenager in the home, it’s likely that she’s spending a good amount of time on the Internet, instant messaging friends and sending e-mails. While the latest technology has brought many benefits to our kids’ educations (and social lives), it has provided yet another method for kids to bully, harass, and even threaten each other.
The Internet provides a faceless, nameless way for kids to bully each other in a variety of ways. They can send cruel text messages on cell phones, post embarrassing pictures online, and spread gossip or personal information quickly to a large number of people. One of the biggest concerns involves messages threatening physical harm.
From Good Kids, Bad Habits: The RealAge Guide to Raising Healthy Children by Jennifer Trachtenberg.
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If you have a teenager in the home, it’s likely that she’s spending a good amount of time on the Internet, instant messaging friends and sending e-mails. While the latest technology has brought many benefits to our kids’ educations... More -
Dr. Michele Borba answered:Cyberbullying can include anything from excluding a classmate from a buddy list, spreading vicious rumors, harassing by instant message to posting death threats on a website.
Bullying has always been one of the tougher problems about growing up; technology just makes inflicting brutality far easier. With just one keystroke cyberbullies can send harmful, vicious and often anonymous e-mails, blogs, instant message or text messages to unsuspecting victims.
Worse yet, the target may not be the soul recipient: with just a simple mouse click, dozens if not thousands of other recipients from down the block or across the country can simultaneously receive the same vile message through cyberspace.
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Cyberbullying can include anything from excluding a classmate from a buddy list, spreading vicious rumors, harassing by instant message to posting death threats on a website. Bullying has always been one of the tougher problems about growing... More
