Cyberbullying and What to Do About It

A while back, the journal Translational Behavioral Medicine published the results of a research team’s scrutiny of over 1.3 million messages from various kinds of social media. These fell into two main categories: short-form entries on Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, and YouTube; and longer posts found in blogs and forum discussions: The results showed a large number of negative stereotypes, “fat” jokes, self-deprecating humor and alienation of overweight and obese people… The researchers were also alarmed by the significant amount of verbal aggression against overweight and obese people, particularly women. Well over half of people with eating disorders assign at least partial blame to bullying, of which cyberbullying makes up a considerable portion. Electronic rudeness to grownups is bad enough, but immense numbers of young

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