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Cyberbullying Items

You may see these terms in the news related to cyberbullying. Having a clear understanding of what these terms mean will help you to spot cyberbullying in your everyday life and take immediate action.

Catfishing：stealing someone’s profile or setting up fake profiles to lure people into starting online relationships.

Cyberstalking：sending repeated and frequent messages that include real threats of physical harm.

Dissing: sending or posting information that’s intended to damage someone’s reputation.

Exclusion: deliberately excluding someone from online conversations, games and activities.

Flaming: sending angry, abusive online messages to intentionally provoke someone into starting an argument.

Fraping: logging into someone else’s account, impersonating them or posting inappropriate content in their name.

Baiting: to intentionally make a person angry by saying or doing things to annoy them.

Griefting: abusing and angering people through online gaming.

Harassment: targeting an individual or group with persistent and offensive messages which could develop into cyberstalking.

Masquerading: creating a fake identity or impersonating someone else online to harass an individual anonymously.

Outing: publicly sharing personal, private or embarrassing information, photos or videos about someone online.

Roasting: ganging up on an individual online and sending offensive abuse until the victim is seen to ‘crack’.

Trolling: deliberately posting provocative and insulting messages about sensitive subjects or inflicting racism or misogyny on an individual.

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Cyberbullying Tactics

It is important to understand how people are cyberbullied so it can be easily recognized and actions can be taken. Some of the most common cyberbullying tactics include:

  • Posting mean, harmful, hurtful, hurtful, or embarrassing comments or rumours about someone online.
  • Threatening to hurt someone or persuade them to kill themselves. 
  • Posting a mean or hurtful picture or video. 
  • Pretending to be someone else online in order to solicit or post personal or false information about someone else. 
  • Posting mean or hateful names, comments, or content about any race, religion, ethnicity, or other personal characteristics online.
  • Creating a mean or hurtful webpage about someone. 
  • Doxing, an abbreviated form of the word documents, is a form of online harassment used to exact revenge and to threaten and destroy the privacy of individuals by making their personal information public, including addresses, social security, credit card and phone numbers, links to social media accounts, and other private data.
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What’s Cyberbullying?

Cyberbullying is violence that takes place over digital media such as mobile phones, laptops and tablets.

Cyberbullying can take place through SMS, Email, and Applications, or online via social media, forums, or gaming where people can access, engage in, or share information.

Cyberbullying means sending, publishing, or exchanging harmful, damaging, misleading, or mean messages about someone else. It could include sharing sensitive or private information about someone else causing shame or humiliation. Some cyberbullying crosses the line into unethical or criminal activity.


The most common place where cyberbullying happens are:

  • Social networks like Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, and Tik Tok.
  • Text messaging and messaging applications for smartphone or tablet computers.
  • Instant Communications.
  • Instant messaging and video chat on the Internet.
  • Online forums, chat rooms, and discussion boards, including Reddit.
  • Email.
  • Online entertainment group.