Encouraging students to be themselves and establishing self worth. would be a tactic to avoid or lessen cyber bullies but it is important to encourage students to stand up for other students and watch out for students being bullied. AIM was also used to express your opinion to other and have deep conversations that you may not have the guts to talk about to someone’s face. This can fall under Halliday's model of instructing language. When you would get on AIM you are learning through language. You are reading what the other person says and coming up with your responses to what they say. Having a conversation is the best way to learn through language and the fact that AIM is over written language is perfect. It established my use of critical thinking and I was able to go back to all of the text that I wrote and evaluate what I said. Casual written text is common now but when AIM became popular texting hadn't evolved yet.