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What Is Syberbulling

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What is cyberbulling?   Online bullying comes in many forms. Cyberbullies flood their targets with nasty e-mails or text messages. They set up websites devoted to attacking their victims or spared rumors and personal attacks via chat rooms. A clever harasser can even steal another teen's user name and use it to send out messages that appear to be from that teen. That's what happened to with-grader Kylie Kennedy of South Burlington, VT. Someone stole her ID and sent out text messages that indicated that she was a lesbian. Then a website went up called "Kill Kylie Incorporated," complete with a slew of crude insults under the heading, "she's queer because...   The Week

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Associate Broker Falmouth MA Cape Cod Heath Coker
https://teamcoker.robertpaul.com - Falmouth, MA
Heath Coker Berkshire Hathaway HS Robert Paul Prop

This tactic is also used to "bully" or overwhelm opinions about a given topic. Try blogging about z ill ow and see who responds.

Dec 23, 2009 12:03 AM
Bob Haywood
McGraw Realtors - Owasso, OK
BobHaywood.com

Heath, are you saying that if you blog about Zillow here at AR you will get attacked by other AR members?  I've never had that happen and I've written about both the bad and the good of Zillow.  Sorry if your experience has been different!

Dec 23, 2009 12:16 AM