Cyberbullying

Cyberbullying also known as electronic bullying or online social cruelty, is defined as bullying through e-mail, instant messaging, in a chat room, on a web system on an online gaming system or through digital messages or images sent to a cellular phone.

Cyberbullying captures the most important elements:
*Willful: The behavior has to be deliberate, not accidental
*Repeated: Bullying reflects a pattern of behavior not just one isolated incident
*Harm: The target must perceive that harm was inflicted
*Computers, cell phones and other electronic devices

Today online bullying messages consisting of images or graphics can be used in numerous ways along with text to imply or convey all sorts of threats in weird or sinister ways.

Receiving action messages can he like discovering a dead chicken on a porch, finding own dog hanging from a tree in front yard, or sometimes creepy and disturbing action that are sometimes used to really intimidate someone in an off-line or traditional sense.
Cyberbullying

Short Message Service

A SMS or Short Message Service refers to the service that allows the transmission of short text messages among mobile devices such as cell phones, fax machines and other devices.

A message contains visual elements and sound is referred to as multimedia messaging service (MMS). Reach and mobility are SMS powerful draws.

As for mobility, anywhere a cell phone can go, a text message can go. This gives the user, the service or application developer, the opportunity to deeply integrate the features into daily life.

As a quick and reliable way to deliver text information, SMS provides cost-effective person-to-person communication and provider-to-consumer communication and providers-to-consumer value added services.

SMS presents a different set of opportunities and constraints relative to a traditional browser-based web service or desktop client application.

Multimedia message carrying video clips are on the rise with the advent of 3G cellular services.

Cellular phone can receive text messages that contain information, including advertising from business. One reason text messaging is popular is that it can deliver advertisement to individuals who are members of a target market.
Short Message Service