Cyberbullying: Cruel IntentionsWith the click of a mouse or the press of a button, the words you have written can never be taken back. Due to the advancement of technology and the rise of social networking sites, the means of communication have become so instantaneous. Before technology was available to children, bullying in schoolyards was more common. Today, teens use technology to deliberately and repeatedly harass, threaten, or cyberbully someone simply by sitting behind a computer. With the development of technology, cyberbullying has increased more than ever. The First Amendment creates legal, philosophical, and practical issues for parents and administrators to help them prevent and take action against those who have harmed others through cyberbullying. The video, Cyberbullying: Cruel Intent, discusses the techniques used by cyberbullies. In the video, an experiment was conducted including nine teenage girls divided into three groups as well as a group of older teenagers and college boys over a three-day period. The aim of the experiment was to analyze the techniques and the way in which adolescents used the technology available to them: a cell phone, a computer and a webcam. The girls didn't know each other, all were either honor students, homeschooled, or recognized by the honor society of a prestigious college. The experiment was supervised and analyzed by a few child development researchers at Brigham Young University. The experiment split the girls into three separate rooms, they were all able to talk to each other via chat rooms, instant messaging, text messages, video chats, social media. media sites and phone calls. The conversations started harmlessly but escalated within moments. Sarcastic comments became attacks, girl group...... middle of paper... Prince, who also committed suicide due to constant harassment, threats and bullying because he was simply the new girl dating the oldest and other victims, with vigorous debate over the role school officials can and should play in protecting students prohibiting this type of speech. Yet when school officials attempt to control cyberbullying, they often violate students' First Amendment rights. These actions are not supported by the First Amendment. Therefore, school authorities must be careful when regulating student speech. If a student's actions were punished when those actions were committed outside of school, without the use of school devices, and are not deemed appropriate for disciplinary action by the school, this constitutes a violation of student rights. of the student under the First Amendment (Byars, 1966). Such sanctions imposed by school authorities make them liable under 42 U.S.C... § 1983.