With technology advances the abuser can stalk, pursue, and bully the victim without leaving the comfort of home.
"Cyberbullying" is when a minor child, preteen or teen is tormented, threatened, harassed, humiliated, embarrassed or otherwise targeted by another minor child, preteen or teen using the Internet, interactive and digital technologies or mobile phones.
Textual-Harassment is receiving hateful or threatening messages via text.
Text wars or text attacks
Text wars or text attacks are when kids gang up on the victim, sending thousands of text-messages to the victim's cell phone or other mobile device. The victim is then faced with a huge cell phone bill and angry parents.
Blogs are online journals. They are a fun way for kids and adolescents to send messages for all of their friends to see. However, kids sometimes use these blogs to damage other kids' reputations or invade their privacy. For example, in one case, a boy posted a bunch of blogs about his breakup with his ex-girlfriend, explaining how she destroyed his life, calling her degrading names. Their mutual friends read about this and criticized her. She was embarrassed and hurt, all because another kid posted mean, private, and false information about her.
Adolescents sometimes create websites that may insult or endanger another adolescent. They create pages specifically designed to insult another adolescent or group of people. Kids also post other kids' personal information and pictures.
Sending Images/Videos through Cell Phones
Cell phones and apps have made it easy for teens to access images and videos of other people. Some people take advantage of this and send these images and videos to other people or post it on social media.
Who's Hot? Who's Not? These types of questions run rampant on the Internet polls, all created by adolescents. Such questions are often very offensive to others and are yet another way that adolescents can "bully" other adolescents online.
Many kids will send viruses, spyware and hacking programs to their victims. They do this to either destroy their computers or spy on their victim. Trojan Horse programs allow the cyberbully to control their victim's computer remote control, and can be used to erase the hard drive of the victim.
