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Essay / Effects of Cyberbullying and Harassment - 1333
In The Truth About Cyberbullying it is stated: “Studies that have been conducted have shown that cyberbullies are not the same people who would bully a person face to face. However, victims of cyberbullying are categorized in the same way as their in-person counterparts. Often, the victim of face-to-face harassment is the same person who is the victim of online harassment. When a teenager is the victim of bullying, harassment, cyberharassment, he is insulted in public, but also via the Internet. The individual suffered repeated humiliations among others and was always put in a difficult situation. One form of harassment is Digital Pile-On, which is when other people have said something without knowing the target. In social media, individuals are used to commenting on other people's posts, but they only comment on what they think. This is a way in which more than one person is involved to intentionally upset someone, the people commenting in the post are only making the problem worse than it should be, and these people commenting may have trouble. At Madera High School, Jackie started posting tweets about the ASB final elections for next year. Jackie was unhappy with the final results and started tweeting about how Jordan should never have won the presidency. So there were more AsB members and I started tweeting too, and the