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Originally Posted by Indy

I take issue with the notion that bullying is something that starts and ends on the playground. That may have been true 30 years ago, but one of the reasons it's become such a problem now is that it has transformed into a 24/7 passtime. Bullying may start in the classroom or on the playground, but it ends on social media, even if the victim doesn't have access to it. It's not a temporary skinned knee that will heal a week later, it's a permanent character assassination that can never be completely erased from the cloud.

The more technology children have, and the younger they acquire it, the further the line is pushed away from something that can simply be handled by kids on the playground. In most cases, they don't even realize the full implications of what they're doing.

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