Cyberbullying

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Cyberbullying is most often motivated by anger, revenge or frustration. Sometimes cyberbullying occurs for entertainment or because bullies are bored and have too much time on their hands and too many tech toys available to them. Many do it for laughs or to get a reaction. Either way, the use of technology by bullies is a growing epidemic and is most often used to hurt and torment. How to deal with different kinds of cyberbullying

Have you been a target of cyberbullying? How did you deal with it?
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=In a Wired World, Are Teens Unable to Escape Cyberbullying= October marks National Bullying Prevention Month, a topic that has made headlines. Cyberbullying can take on various forms, from a middle-schooler firing a hurtful text message to high school teens harassing a boyfriend or girlfriend online. The National Crime Prevention Council defines cyberbullying -- a term practically nonexistent more than a decade ago.

However, do you think that there is no escape when it comes to cyberbullying? Is it so easy to target others that cyberbullying is something we will just have to live with? Why, why not?
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=Nine Teens charges in Cyberbullying Suicide= //"Price moved to Massachusetts last year from Ireland and appeared to be well adjusted and happy, but underneath, friends say the 15-year-old freshman was tormented...a victim of cyberbullying. Now the nine teens charged for the nearly three-month campaign of verbally assaultive behavior and threats of physical harm" widely known among the student body.// " read this article

How far should the law go in prosecuting bullies?
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