# Towards Understanding Cyberbullying Behavior in a Semi-Anonymous Social Network

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1404.3839 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/1404.3839/

## Key facts

- Cited by 3 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- First posted on arXiv 15 Apr 2014.

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## Abstract (arXiv)

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 247 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.