Bullying is an act of REPEATED DELIBERATE aggressive behavior in order to INTENTIONALLY hurt another person, physically or mentally. BULLYING is characterized as behaving in a manner to gain power over another person and it is a form of abuse. Not all bullies are serial bullies... Sometimes the average person loses it under pressure and takes out their feelings in a bullying manner. But regardless of how or why it is happening to you, it is not acceptable. Victims of bullying often are at greater risk of suffering from depression and other mental health problems, including schizophrenia. In rare cases, they may commit suicide. BULLYING is a behavior that involves a pattern of REPEATED aggression with a DELIBERATE intent to harm or disturb a victim despite apparent victim distress. Cyber-bullying is "the use of information and communication technologies to support deliberate, repeated, and hostile behavior by an individual or group, that is intended to harm others". Cyber-bullying has been defined as "when the Internet, cell phones or other devices are used to send or post text or images intended to hurt or embarrass another person",[2] or as "when an electronic device is used to attack or defame the character of a real person. " Cyberstalking is the use of the Internet or OTHER ELECTRONIC MEANS. Cyberstalking is often used to monitor and/or cause damage to data or equipment or to gather information in order to harass. The definition of "harassment" must meet the criterion that a reasonable person, in possession of the same information, would regard it as sufficient to cause another reasonable person distress. Cyberstalkers may approach their victim's friends, family and work colleagues to obtain personal information. They may advertise for information on the Internet, or hire a private detective. They often will monitor the victim's online activities. They may try to involve third parties in the harassment. They may claim the victim has harmed the stalker or his/her family in some way. Many cyberstalkers try to damage the reputation of their victim and turn other people against them. They may set up their own websites, blogs or user pages for this purpose. The cyberstalker will often claim that the victim is harassing him/her. Recipients of the slander not realize they are suffering a manipulation and an invasion privacy. According the psychologist Iñaki Piñuel y Zabalaone of the reasons for adhering to bully some of the peers is because they wish to have no problems. They think the victim must have done something. The current US Federal Anti-Cyber-Stalking law is found at 47 USC sec. 223. The bully enjoys and shows its power to pursue and is psychologically damaging to the person. Cyber-bullying involves the use of information and communication technologies such as e-mail, cell phone and pager text messages, instant messaging, defamatory personal Web sites, blogs, online games 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. Bullies will even create blogs to intimidate victims worldwide. Cyber harassment is the repeated behavior by a person or group using mobile or Internet technology with the intent to bother, terrify, intimidate, humiliate, threaten, harass or stalk someone else. The harassment can take place in any electronic environment where communication with others is possible, such as on social networking sites, on message boards, in chat rooms or through email. Cyber harassment and cyber stalking are often used synonymously to describe the actions of persons who relentlessly pursue others online with the intention of frightening or embarrassing the victim. Sometimes a harasser intends to teach the victim a lesson or solicit information from the victim, and stalkers generally want revenge or attention.



Cyberbullying is the willful and repeated use of computers, cell phones and / or other electronic devices to send or post text or images intended to hurt or embarrass another person. Cyber-harassment is also a form of bullying. "The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it." - Albert Einstein "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction." - Albert Einstein Visit http://StopBullying.gov

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Organized Stalking / Electronic Harassment