"Bullying is a conscious wilful, and deliberate hostile activity intended to harm, induce fear through the threat of further aggression, and create terror."¹  There is a threat of future aggression.  "This is not meant to be one time event."²  Sometimes youth and adults have difficulty distinguishing between bullying and teasing.  "Teasing is usually meant as a shared joke.  Once someone's feelings are hurt, it is no longer a laughing matter."³  All forms of verbal bullying are harmful and unacceptable. 

"Cyberbullying involves the use of information and communication technologies such as e-mail, cell phone and pager text messages, instant messaging, defamatory personal web sites, defamatory online personal polling web sites, to support deliberate, repeated, and hostile behaviour by an individual or group, that is intended to harm others."⁴  It is a deliberate choice by individuals or groups to use new technologies to bully their victims.  Whether it is using words face-to-face on the playground or typing an abusive message into cyberspace these behaviours are  forms of bullying and can have a devastating effect on their victims.  It differs from  bullying  as it can be very difficult to identify the cyberbully and can have a global audience delivered with cyber speed.