It is time to create a fire-wall against online bullying, and safeguard our cyber-futures. Twitter, Facebook, BB messenger, Instagram, YouTube, Flickr – these seemingly innocuous new words and phrases can be a veritable semantic and technological jungle to many adults, but ask any young person and this new language of social media can mean the world, literally.
New technologies put instant, global communications at our finger-tips, making it easier than ever for young people to share, communicate and be in constant contact, 24-hours-a-day.
But in the cautionary words of Voltaire, “with great power comes great responsibility” and these incredible leaps towards a previously unimaginable, technological world are becoming blighted by a new virus: cyber-bullying.
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