Cyberbullies Still Abound

I've been reading several interesting pieces on cyberbulling and the fact that it remains rampant despite being outed innumerable times now and the predictions are that it may never go away.

It seems that the latest vector is the smartphone and those youngsters who are so quick to latch on the various social medfia outlets and amass acquaintences who are mislabeled "friends" without really cultivating friendships, real knowledge about the "person behind the avatar" or even the nature of their existence outside the confines of the app by which they communicate.

Old people such as myself who are out here and able to take on anyone anywhere anytime are the exception to the rule when it comes to these millennials who know all about what they like and don't like but little else about facts, figures, and the real world.

These youngsters need filtration of those encounters so that they don't get their little feelings hurt by some big pushy keypad thumping lout regardless of the fact that she's may just be twelve.
 

All in all I would say if you are being cyberbullied there are numerous avenues available to you and it's something that should be and can be stopped quite quickly.

Of course, sexting and twerking before the quite excellent optics of smart cameras these days isn't going to help your case when those threads of who you really are online come to the surface.

However, whatever amount of tease in which you may engage the bottom line is your "safe space" has never been the internet so you may just want to go to Yale and scream at some professor with whom you don't agree ...

But that won't help either. Suffice it to say that you get that incriminating mess off the cloud to some truly private media storage then contact the proper authorities regarding your problem.

It's illegal to communicate a threat to anyone over a smartphone. If you're threatened don't remain scared or evade. Get even. There are a lot of equalizers out there to make the cyberbully run and hide.