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How Are Teens Cyberbullied?





Being a victim of cyberbullying can be a common and painful experience. Some youth who cyberbully


• Pretend they are other people online to trick others
• Spread lies and rumors about victims
• Trick people into revealing personal information
• Send or forward mean text messages
• Post pictures of victims without their consent
• Don’t think it’s a big deal
• Don’t think about the consequences
• Are encouraged by friends
• Think everybody cyberbullies
• Think they won’t get caught

Contrary to what cyberbullies may believe, cyberbullying is a big deal, and can cause a variety of reactions in teens. Some teens have reacted in positive ways to try to prevent cyberbullying by



• Blocking communication with the cyberbully
• Deleting messages without reading them
• Talking to a friend about the bullying
• Reporting the problem to an Internet service provider or website moderator
• Seeking revenge on the bully
• Avoiding friends and activities
• Cyberbullying back

Cyber bullying, which is sometimes referred to as online social cruelty or electronic bullying, can involve:

• Sending mean, vulgar, or threatening messages or images;
• Posting sensitive, private information about another person;
• Pretending to be someone else in order to make that person look bad;
• Intentionally excluding someone from an online group (Willard, 2005).

In 1933, the Jewish population of Europe stood at over nine million. Most European Jews lived in countries that Nazi Germany would occupy or influence during World War II. By 1945, the Germans and their collaborators killed nearly two out of every three European Jews as part of the "Final Solution," the Nazi policy to murder the Jews of Europe. Although Jews, whom the Nazis deemed a priority danger to Germany, were the primary victims of Nazi racism, other victims included some 200,000 Roma (Gypsies). At least 200,000 mentally or physically disabled patients, mainly Germans, living in institutional settings, were murdered in the so-called Euthanasia Program.

"25,000 Jews Seized In Southern France,"
(New York Times, August 28, 1942);

"Jewish Children Interned by Vichy" (Chicago
Sun, August 31, 1942);

"35,000 Jews Executed in Five Polish Towns,"
(New York Herald Tribune, March 21, 1943);

"50,000 Jews Put In Nazi Prison 'Die Like Flies,'"
(Washington Times Herald, September 3, 1943);

"50,000 Jews Dying In Nazi Fortress," (New
York Times, September 3, 1943);

"Nazi Slayings Near 250,000," (Baltimore
Sun, September 22, 1943);

"Poles Report Nazis Slay 10,000 Daily,"
(Washington Post, March 22, 1944);

"1,000,000 Hungarian Jews Face Massacre, Hull
Says," (Chicago Sun, July 15, 1944).