For generations after generations, teenagers have used bullying to hurt others they consider a threat or to move into the popularity crowd. Traditional bullying was physical and therefore limited to face-to-face contexts. However, with the development of widespread social interactions through social media sites, email, and text messaging, adolescents have additional means of expression and, therefore, other means of bullying. Over time, harassment using digital means has become known as cyberbullying. Cyberbullying has brought out the nastiness in the actions, words and thoughts of teenagers, whether they are the bully or the victim. Just as importantly, the end results of these actions, words, and thoughts have resulted in death, limited but undefined punishable consequences if pursued, and slowly advancing methods to control cyberbullying as a whole. What is cyberbullying? Cyberbullying is simply the use of and access to technology. tools to repeatedly harass, harm and embarrass the targeted person. Stopcyberbullying.org (nd), an organization dedicated to preventing cyberbullying and promoting awareness, has defined cyberbullying as the use of the Internet and mobile devices or digital technologies such as text or instant messaging, mail electronic and/or blogging by adolescents. or adolescents to repeatedly threaten, harass, embarrass, torment, humiliate the targeted adolescent(s) or adolescent(s). The 21st century has encouraged and forced our teenagers to become very proficient in using technology in addition to using and accessing social media. The spectrum of social media includes Twitter, Facebook, and even Formspring, a discreet media outlet that offers “complete anonymity” to users (Holladay, 2011, p. 5). Even if ...... middle of paper ......r 15). Fox News. Retrieved April 28, 2014 from http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/10/15/girls-12-and-14-arrested-in-death-bullied-florida-girl-police-say/Hinduja, S. and Patchin, J. (2010). Cyberbullying and suicide. . Retrieved April 15, 2014 from http://www.cyberbullying.us/cyberbullying_and_suicide_research_fact_sheet.pdf Holladay, J. (2011). Cyberbullying. Education Digest, 76, 4-9. Retrieved April 15, 2014 from MasterFILE Premier database. Williamson, R. (January 2012). Cyberbullying. ERIC - Cyberbullying. From Research to Practice, Education Partnerships, Inc., 2012-January. Retrieved April 15, 2014, from http://www.eric.ed.gov/contentdelivery/servlet/ERICServlet?accno=ED538543What exactly is cyberbullying?. (nd). STOP Cyberbullying: What exactly is cyberbullying?. Retrieved April 28, 2014 from http://stopcyberbullying.org/what_is_cyberbullying_exactly.html