Victims fear abusive content will resurface

Those who experience cyberbullying as teenagers still worry for years that the abusive image or texts will be reposted again.

Research conducted on students at Trinity College Dublin who had been cyberbullied when they were younger, showed the bully still had a hold over them, as many worried that a questionable image or spurious comment might be resurrected from their past.

But the research by TCD’s Dr Conor McGuckin showed how some teenagers try to seek something positive out of cyberbullying.