TY - JOUR PY - 2014// TI - Towards understanding cyberbullying behavior in a semi-anonymous social network JO - arXiv eprint archive A1 - Hosseinmardi, Homa A1 - Ghasemianlangroodi, Amir A1 - Han, Richard A1 - Lv, Qin A1 - Mishra, Shivakant SP - 1404.3839 EP - 1404.3839 VL - IS - N2 - Cyberbullying has emerged as an important and growing social problem, wherein people use online social networks and mobile phones to bully victims with offensive text, images, audio and video on a 24/7 basis. This paper studies negative user behavior in the Ask.fm social network, a popular new site that has led to many cases of cyberbullying, some leading to suicidal behavior.We examine the occurrence of negative words in Ask.fms question+answer profiles along with the social network of likes of questions+answers. We also examine properties of users with cutting behavior in this social network.

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