Lifeline Australia defines cyber bullying as "when someone uses electronic communication tools (such as a mobile phone or computer) to bully and intimidate others. This may include slandering, blackmailing, spreading rumours, excluding from interactions, harassing, threatening or insulting someone."
Lifeline's examples include actions such as spreading rumours online, sending threatening emails, text messages or comments, sharing a person's confidential communications with others, breaking into someone's email or social networking accounts to send messages to others while posing as the victim, changing identity and sending messages which tease, humiliate, threaten, or harrass the victim, and creating web pages to make fun of the victim.
Bullying, and cyberbullying, are not restricted only to children. I have personally been the victim of cyberbullying as an adult. One of the hallmarks of cyberbullying, I think, is that the anonymity of interacting in cyberspace emboldens the bully, who can hide behind a false name or profile, and with less risk of being caught and punished, is more willing to say and do things that they might not have done in 'real life'.
Even though cyberbullying can affect adults as well, for the purposes of this assignment I will be concentrating on cyberbullying for under-18s.
Source:
Lifeline Australia, http://www.lifeline.org.au/find_help/cyber_bullying
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