. . . how exactly would one be a "cyber-bully"? Is there a way to give digital swirlies or something? I had to look this one up.
According to
http://www.cyberbully.org/, a cyber-bully is one who engages in these activities:
# Sending cruel, vicious, and sometimes threatening messages.
# Creating web sites that have stories, cartoons, pictures, and jokes ridiculing others.
# Posting pictures of classmates online and asking students to rate them, with questions such “Who is the biggest ___ (add a derogatory term)?”
# Breaking into an e-mail account and sending vicious or embarrassing material to others.
# Engaging someone in IM (instant messaging), tricking that person into revealing sensitive personal information, and forwarding that information to others.
# Taking a picture of a person in the locker room using a digital phone camera and sending that picture to others.
After reading that, I don't see a need to have a term like "cyber-bully" when it's just being an ass in real life and extending that behavior to a different medium: the internet. People being assholes isn't anything new, no matter what form they take, and regardless of how it's done, it's lame.
