With the popularization of the Internet, online gaming has become a leisure activity for teenagers. Because of anonymity and convenience, the traditional face-to-face bullying maps into cyberspace. Cyberbullying means the use of electronic equipment like verbal harassment, verbal abuse, e-mail and cell phone text messages make others uncomfortable or mental stress.
Gaming experience is a factor of online game addiction due to special gaming experiences that cannot experienced in the real world. For example, gorgeous sound and light effects, beautiful and handsome characters and the mighty monster are some gaming experiences that are to the reality of things. Players of online games may chase those game experiences while stranded in online games.
We issued an internet questionnaire in game forums and BBS in Taiwan. The results of this study show the two social factors, competition and recognition, influence cyberbullying.
