With the growth of social media outlets like Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, and Youtube, taunting and harassment of individuals has greatly increased. Newer social media outlets are allowing for bullies to harass their victims with a few strokes of a keyboard on any computer.
A staff member at Hattiesburg High School sits down to tell us exactly what cyber bullying is and how individuals having more access to the internet contributes to the growing epidemic.
Also, we see how one college student was forced to move from her home and change her entire life because of interactions with a cyber bully.
Mississippi's cyber bullying law does not directly outline the punishment for cyber bullying. But Lt. Prouix from the Hattiesburg Police Department encourages victims of cyber bullying to speak out to solve problems before law enforcement ever gets involved.
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