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“Cyberbullying can happen at any time. People can hide behind their computers and say hurtful things about others. This makes it hard to know who the bully is and makes it difficult to stop them.”
- Affleck & Barrison LLP
We all have a general idea of what bullying is. Threatening someone can be bullying. Pressuring someone
to do something they don’t want to do can be bullying. Humiliating someone can be bullying. Excluding
someone can be bullying.
According to The Red Cross, bullying typically is:
As well, bullying often will involve a power imbalance: bigger against smaller, or groups against an individual.
Bullying hurts. It hurts the person being bullied, and it hurts the person doing the bullying too. There is no need for it.
Unfortunately, bullying is universal. It can happen to people of all ages, in any place in the world. Bullying can happen at schools, in clubs, in teams, at businesses,
and even within families.
Cyberbullying could be unintentional. But it also could be more intentional, a result of:
