Do n’t let the Kiwi beloved - fest at the Oscars jester you : New Zealand ’s got problem , too . consort to a Victoria University sketch of text message by teens , beggarly - bouncy boys and girls are using the technology to harass their meeker peers . One tactic is known as “ flooding , ” whereby bullies flood a poor sap ’s inbox with nasty insults . school text messaging , aver an article on Stuff.co.nz , “ has been implicated in several adolescent suicide , ” including that of a disfigured male child last year . Victims have been afraid to report the cyber - bullying , however , lest their parents plainly take away their cell phones . Gizmodo took its lumps in the schoolyard , so do n’t think we do n’t sympathize . But personally , I ’d much rather deal with text - subject matter contumely than get Purple Nurpled by a kid named Chunk .
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