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2011
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udgment. Anonymity. Cruelty. These three words
define cyberbullying as Pinnacle High School
(PHS) students perceive it today. The virtual
world of blogs, text messages, e-mails and social
networking has opened the door to a new generation
of cyberbullying. What was once ridicule in the
physical world through slam books and wedgies, has
transformed into pixilated letters on an LCD screen.
The issue reaches not only PHS students, or even just high school
students, but children, teenagers and adults from every region of the
world. Ranging from catty gossip to malicious insults, cyberbullying
occurs constantly.
According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, a teen devotes an
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