# Cyberbullying

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

- Page: https://navenapp.com/glossary/cyberbullying
- Last updated: 2026-10-15
- Published by: Naven, a free messaging app that runs in a web browser (https://navenapp.com/about)

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.

See also [Harassment](https://navenapp.com/glossary/harassment), [Blocking](https://navenapp.com/glossary/blocking), [Group chat](https://navenapp.com/glossary/group-chat) and [Content moderation](https://navenapp.com/glossary/content-moderation).

![Naven on a phone, explaining why a message was not sent: it gave away where somebody lives](https://navenapp.com/shots/phone-screening.webp)  
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## Naven, in brief

- **Price:** Free. No ads, no paid tier
- **Phone number:** Never asked for
- **To install:** Nothing. It runs in a browser
- **End-to-end encrypted:** No. Messages are screened before they send
- **Works on:** Phones, tablets, laptops, Chromebooks

### What it will not do

- Screen calls. Only messages are screened
- Catch everything. The screen misses things, and is weaker outside English
- Promise security. Naven promises none; the terms say so plainly

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