Cyberbullying: Cruel Intentions With the click of a mouse, the press of a button, the words you have written can never be taken back. Due to the advancement of technology and the growth of social networking sites, ways of communicating have become so instant. Before technology reached children, bullying in schools was more common. Teens are now using technology to intentionally and repeatedly harass, threaten, or cyberbully simply by sitting behind a computer. With the growth of technology, cyberbullying has increased more than ever. The First Amendment creates legal, philosophical, and practical problems for parents and administrators to help prevent and take action against those who have harmed others through cyberbullying. The video, Cyberbullying: Cruel Intentions, discusses the techniques used by cyberbullies. In the video, an experiment was conducted that included nine teenage girls divided into three groups and a group of older teenage girls and boys attending college over the course of three days. The aim of the experiment was to analyze the techniques and ways in which the children used the technology provided to them: a mobile phone, a computer and a webcam. The girls didn't know each other, they were all honor students, homeschooled or recognized by the honor society of a prestigious college. The experiment was supervised and analyzed by child development researchers at Brigham Young University. The experiment divided the girls into three separate rooms, all of them were able to talk to each other through chat rooms, instant messaging, text messages, video chats, social networks. multimedia sites and phone calls. The conversations started out harmless but escalated within moments. Derogatory comments turned into attacks, a group of girls...... middle of paper...... Prince, who also took his own life due to harassment, threats and constant bullying for simply being the new girl who was dating the older man and other victims, with heated debate over what role school officials can and should play in protecting students by banning this type of speech. However, when school authorities try to control cyberbullying, they often violate students' First Amendment rights. These actions are not supported by the First Amendment. Therefore, school authorities must be careful in regulating student speech. If a student's actions were punished but were committed outside of school, without the use of school devices, and are not deemed appropriate to be disciplined by the school, this constitutes a violation of the student's First Amendment rights (Byars , 1966). Such punishment by school authorities makes them liable under 42 USC. § 1983.