Table of Contents
Prologue 1
1 Why Are We So "Horrible" to Each Other? 4
2 The Haunting of Amanda Todd 13
3 Cyberstalking a Good Samaritan 28
4 Rebecca's Black "Friday" 44
5 Kids Say the Most Despicable Things 63
6 Adults Say the Most Despicable Things, Too 76
7 Trolls Or Tormentors? 89
8 Jokes, Jabs, Or Just Plain Sick Online? 99
9 "What Kind of People Can Do That?" 108
10 Is Cyberbullying "Exaggerated"? 126
11 A Predator's Best Friend 154
12 Girls (And Boys) Gone Wild? 167
13 Celebrities To Sluts 181
14 Initial Influencers 195
15 The New Young Censors 206
16 Bully Nation 218
17 Whose Law And What Order? 230
18 Can We At Least Be Civil? 251
19 The Madding Crowd: How Online Bystanders Fuel Cyberabuse 263
20 The Mean Mosaic 275
21 "Top Three Ways To Protect Us Online?" 288
22 From Mean To Magnanimous: How To Use This Book 295
Acknowledgements 303
Glossary 306
Notes 312
Index 338