At some point in your childhood, you may have encountered that troubled individual, typically known as the "bully", who sowed fear into the hearts of the weakest link by humiliating them, taking what is rightfully theirs, they constantly pick on them and sometimes even inflict physical abuse. Well, I hate to break it to you, but this individual is back and better equipped than before, preying on the weak and vulnerable in the cyber world (Internet). More recently, it took a wave of “cyberbullying” crime for our media and US leaders to pay attention; now that the American people realize that the “class bully” has evolved into a more dangerously intelligent and sinister inflictor of emotional scars, invader of privacy and has the potential to inflict life-threatening humiliation. It is very difficult to stop a crime of this nature and will continue to receive a lot of attention because it operates within the World Wide Web, an unregulated platform with a mixture of cultures and its own rules of governance by its creators. . However, there are ways to deal with this new form of power, people are becoming more aware of cyber-bullying, schools are taking tough measures imposing expulsion for bullying in any form and parents are enforcing the use of the Internet. First, let's see more understanding of such behavior, carefully defining and identifying the possible sources or reason for such behaviors. Bullying is the ongoing act of aggressive or intimidating behavior aimed at intentionally harming another person, physically or mentally. Bullies continually torture others to gain power and strength over the person being bullied. Conventional bullying involved acts such as: verbal abuse (jokes and insults) to...... middle of document ......ks CitedAnzaldua, Gloria. "How to tame a wild tongue." Yagelski 337-348.Bazelon, Emily. “What Really Happened to Phoebe Prince?” The new world of OnlineCruetly. SlateWeb. SlateWeb and Web. December 13, 2010.Dooly, Troy. “Laws on cyberbullying”. eHow. eHow. April 5, 2007. Web. December 12, 2010.iSafe. Cyberbullying: statistics and tips. January 4, 2009. Web. December 13, 2010. Kean University. Students. KU, October 20, 2010. Web. October 26, 2010. Record. “The Rugters Suicide.” The Chicago Tribune. The Chicago Tribune, Oct. 1, 2010. Web. Oct. 21. 2010.Research. Center for studies on cyberbullying. CPR. Cyberbullying in the United States Online, 2010. Web. December 12, 2010. United States. National Center for Crime Prevention. Cyberbullying. NCPC, October 8, 2010. Web.October 20, 2010. Yagelski, Robert P., ed. Reading Our World: Conversations in Context 2nd ed. Boston, MA: Wadsworth, 2010. Print.