Naked Snapchat video and sexual selfies: Welcome to the new frontier of bullying
'Snapchat' - it sounds so harmless. Those two syllables denote a world of cute mouse ears, rainbow symbols and facial distortion filters that burst onto our smartphones as messages for a matter of seconds, before disappearing forever. The app now seems to be as common among 50-somethings as millennials (judging from my friends' parents who have just discovered the #LOL filters).
The frontier of bullying has been changing for years. For my generation (twenty-something millennials) cyber-bullying started on AOL dial-up via MSN messenger. In the last social media - from Facebook and WhatsApp to more niche sites, popular with teens, like .
Cyber-bullying can look like trolling: being excluded from online groups; a refusal to ‘like' a picture; ironic ‘likes' on a picture; body-shaming; slut-shaming – you name it. It's all-encompassing and when it comes to https://hookupdate.net/hornet-review/ teen girls, a lot of is focused on their bodies.
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