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Welcome to Voice Your Choice, a website dedicated to educating
students, parents, counselors, and educators about cyberbullying.
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Adolescents have been bullying each other for generations.
The latest generation, however, has been able to utilize technology to
expand the reach and harm associated with bullying. This phenomenon is
being called cyberbullying,
briefly
defined as: "willful and
repeated harm inflicted through the use of computers, cell phones, and
other electronic devices."
From
cyberbullying.us
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There are important elements included in this definition:
willful: the
behavior has to be deliberate, not accidental
repeated: bullying
reflects a pattern of behavior, not just one isolated incident
harm: the target
must perceive that harm was inflicted
computers, cell phones, and other
electronic devices: this is what differentiates
cyberbullying from traditional bullying
From cyberbullying.us
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