Let us discuss how cyber technology impacts the interactions between offenders and victims in terms of cyber bullying.  The first way technology has impacted victims of this crime is by the speed at which a shared picture, video, or idea gets spread across the world.  Any person who posts online can become a victim in minutes.  These days, we call that “going viral.” Secondly, this same technology can allow the offenders to view their negative actions as being “victimless” in their eyes.  Offenders imagine the physical distance between themselves and their victims as being their protection or buffer from the offense.  And this invisible distance has made judgements of these crimes to be difficult to decide due to the fact of trying to determine the jurisdiction of the crime.  It is sad to see data that shows that most victims of cyber bullying are women and that most of the offenders are also women.  But there is also data that shows that men are more likely not to report being victims in these cases so maybe the numbers are closer that we perceive.  We need better data in order to properly develop cyber bully policies and laws in our society. Being a parent in this era of living online has made me believe that stronger charges need to delivered to offenders as a means to deter other potential offenders.  Life by itself is difficult enough without the internet so harsher sentencing might be the only solution that has any merit to reducing the growing number of victims. Being in the corporate world for over two decades, I have seen the increase in awareness of bullying and harassment in the work place. Deviant acts that were usually dealt with verbal reprimands in the past are now justifiable grounds for termination.  The same level of awareness and judgement is growing in the school systems but they still have a ways to go.  Our societal environment is the last battlefield that needs the same attention.