The emergence of information and communication technological tools and techniques have enabled people to do things differently as compared to how these things were done prior to the Digital Age. There is a saying that goes "the more things change, the more they remain the same" and in this instance, things never really changed despite the technological innovations. Take for instance one of the dreads of any primary, secondary or college student – or anyone for that matter who has fallen prey, bullying; before the Internet and computers, this deviant act is a form of abuse and normally done by stronger person on weaker ones. The goal of bullying is usually to make the weaker person do something against his will, project power on someone else or simply hurt another because they are deemed different.
Bullying has been a societal problem since people began walking upright and "as old as recorded history (“Cain attacked his brother Abel and killed him,” reads Genesis 4:8), but, unfortunately, its methods have evolved with technology. (Billitteri 2010)" The reasons and motivations for bullying, the victims of the act and the intended affects really remain the same. It’s only that the methods and techniques differ because of the use of technological tools and techniques. From the physical, bullying gave rise to cyberbullying or what "the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention labeled “electronic aggression” (Billitteri 2010)" where bullies who are now cyberbullies used the Internet to harass, malign, ridicule, threat, scare or intimidate their victims.
Victims of bullies who cannot take the abuse often commit violent or suicidal acts on themselves because of their helplessness; victims of cyberbullies often resort to the same extreme measures. For example in Massachusetts, Phoebe Prince, a high school could not take the bullying of her six classmates and ended up