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Away Message - A custom-written automatic Internet reply used to greet any messages the user receives while absent.
Cyberstalking - Sending harassing communications that may include threats of harm.
Denigration - Sending or posting harmful, untrue or cruel statements or images about a person to other people.
Flaming - Sending hateful messages or images, including pictures taken with cell phones, to a private or online group.
Instant Messaging Service - Software allowing users to chat online in "real time" from their computers or via wireless devices.
JK - An acronym for "just kidding." Some young people follow hurtful comments with "jk," absolving themselves of any responsibility for their statement.
Inpersonation - Pretending to be someone else and sending or posting material using that person’s identity that makes him or her look bad or places him or her in potential danger.
Outgoing - Sending or posting materials about or by a person that contains sensitive, private or embarrassing information.
Trickery - Fooling someone into revealing personal information and then distributing it.
POS - An acronym for "parent over shoulder."
Profile - A biographical form, in which members record their hobbies, likes and dislikes.
Text Messaging - The use of cell phone keypads to type short messages that can be sent instantly to other cell phone users.
Three-Way Messaging - An upgrade of the three-way phone call, where two people use an instant messaging service from the same computer but suggest only one person is present; this is followed by sensitive questioning of others about the "quiet" third party, who is able to view what people "really think" of him or her.
Links:
Unicel.com/standup
Cyberbully.org
Empowerprogram.org |