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Cyberbullying

Repeated harassment, humiliation or exclusion of somebody through messages, posts or images.

Cyberbullying is bullying carried out online: repeated messages meant to hurt, humiliating posts or pictures, impersonation, and deliberate exclusion from group chats. What separates it from an argument is repetition and an imbalance of power — one person, or a group, singling somebody out.

Group chats are where much of it happens among school-age children, because a group can pile on and a screenshot can travel.

What helps: blocking and muting, leaving a group, keeping screenshots, reporting the account, and telling a trusted adult. Schools in many places have their own policies that cover bullying outside school hours.

Where Naven stands

Harassment and bullying is one of the twelve categories screened before a message is delivered, and serious refusals on three different days within 30 lead to a pause or a suspension. Naven deliberately does not screen ordinary insults or arguments, so a disagreement between friends is delivered. Anybody can block or report from a conversation's menu without asking anybody else.

Naven on a phone, explaining why a message was not sent: it gave away where somebody lives
What it looks like in Naven: a screenshot of the app.

Naven is a free messenger that runs in your browser. No phone number, nothing to install, and no new password.

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