Cyber-Bullying Coming To A Cell Phone Near You
Approximately half of U.S. students are impacted by bullying each school day. It happens on buses, in the cafeteria, gym, hallways, playground, and classroom. The most frequent form bullying takes is words (teasing, taunting, ridiculing, name-calling, and gossip) - not blows. This type of bullying happens in the "physical" world and that world has geographic limits. Cyber Bullying is making school days even more painful for many children. Bullying in cyberspace is not bound by school hours, school days, or facing the intended bully victim. Unfortunately, the anonymous nature of the internet often insulates the Cyber Bullying from the consequences of their damaging behavior.
As the number of households with internet access approaches saturation and cell phone ownership expands to the 100 million mark, so do the ways kids bully each other. Cyber bullying in the form of text messages, emails, photos, and website postings can go school-wide in minutes and global in days. Slanderous information sent out into cyberspace is difficult, if not impossible, to expunge. Cyber bullying often takes the form of cyber gossip, where damaging content is based on whim; not facts.
Cyber Bullying Getting Bigger: Studies indicate that cyber bullying incidents have quadrupled in five years. A 2000 survey by the Crimes Against Children Research center at the University of New Hampshire reported 6% of young people had experienced some form of cyber bullying. In 2005, studies of 1500 Internet-using adolescents found that over one-third had been cyber bulled and half of those admitted to cyber bullying others (Hinduja and Patchin, In Review.) A 2005 study by National Children's Home Charity revealed that 20% had been cyber-bullying victims. A 2004 survey conducted by i-Safe America of 1556 adolescents found that 42% had been bullied online.
How Cyber-Bulling Messages Are Communicated:
• Text or digital imaging messages sent on cell phones
• E-mails
• Instant messaging
• Web pages
• Web logs (blogs)
• Chat rooms or discussion groups
• Other information communication technologies
Cyber-bullying Victims and Perpetrators:
• Girls were about twice as likely as boys to be victims and perpetrators of cyber-bullying.
• 62% said that they had been cyber-bullied by another student at school, and 46% had been cyber-bullied by a friend.
• 55% didn't know who had cyber-bullied them.
Only 20% of cyber-bullying victims tell their parents about the incident. Victims are most likely to tell a friend 42%). (2005, Kowalski et al., Electronic bullying among school-aged children and youth.)
Ten Tips: Parents Cyber-Bullying Preemption
1. Consider installing filtering and blocking software, but understand clearly that proactive parents are the only real deterrent and the best resource for bullying preemption.
2. Keep your home computer(s) in easily viewable places, such as a family room or kitchen.
3. Model the behavior you want to see in your child
4. Talk regularly with your child about on-line activities he or she is involved in.
5. Set firm guidelines for cell phone use and monitor that behavior.
6. Talk specifically about cyber-bullying. Explain that that it is harmful and unacceptable behavior.
7. Outline your expectations for responsible online behavior and clearly explain the consequences for inappropriate behavior.
8. Encourage your child to tell you immediately if he or she is a victim of cyber-bullying. Tell your child not to respond to the bully.
9. Stay calm. Plan in advance how you will calmly receive the news that your child is being bullied and the solution steps you will take. You will want the evidence. Tell your child to save the bullying messages or photo.
10. Call your child's school; ask the principal what measurable, bullying preemptive, activity-based programs they have in place today. Ask about results.
Margaret Ross, president Kamaron Institute is a business, relationship, and bullying preemption expert. Ross is a frequently featured guest on America's top radio shows.
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What? Cyber Bullying?
Wtf. how do you get bullied over the internet?
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whats the world coming to?
could u help me visualize a world without cyber bullying
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how do you write a feature article on cyber bullying?
i was ill for the week we got given this homework task and missed how to write a feature article does anyone know? and i cant find much info on cyber bullying, does anyone know any statistics on it? anyone help? it would be much appreciated.
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would someone describe what cyber bullying means?
LOL viiking, i enjoyed your rant and now know what a real cyber bully can co.
Why anyone would allow the unknown author of the printed word to form an act of intimidation in the brain toward an isolated someone that is not available to be coerced into or for any form of physical or mental or emotional distress is the following of a coward anyway.
Thank you for the example
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Are your kids being affected by cyber-bullies? Is your "online" reputation affecting you?
Everyone has an online reputation, whether they realize it or not.
Bullies some times post Lies on you and you become a Cyber Victim and people believes them and then you lose your Reputation on the internet and people beign not-to-like you and don't want to be your friend or don't even want to contact you
if or Is your online reputation who is bad hurting you?
Are cyber-bullies affecting you?
do you care?
if not how did you stop caring (need advice)?
and whats your opinion?
if you Responded to Cyber Bullies does that mean they won and they made your reputation bad or ...
and thanks for answering
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What could account for having a glorious friendship and conversation on the phone but not in person?
I talk to one of my friends all of the time. We love to talk to one another actually BUT often times when we meet in person, it is a lot more strained.
We still have fun, but there is a lot of awkwardness and petty bickering.
What would account for that? Why is it different in person? Has that ever happened to you? What did you do to "fix" it? There just seems to be a level of discomfort that is not there on the phone but is in person.
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I need help on starting a speech.?
Okay, so I am doing a rough draft, and I need help starting my speech. It's about cyber bullying. Can someone HELP ME?!? I need it, lol. Thanks<3
I have also been thinking about blurting out in the beginning things that a cyber bully would say. Crude comments, but not too inappropriate to get there attention. What do you think? :)
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What is the connection between the media and cyber-bullying?
Hello, I am working on this Chinese project in which I have to film a 10min discussion between me and my partner about cyber-bullying but out unit is the media so during our discussion we have to find someway to connect cyber-bullying and the media. For the beginning of the film we start introducing what cyber-bullying is and what the reasons of why cyber-bulling exists. We then want to go on to talk about how cyber-bulling relates to the media in someway but we are stuck. We asked the teacher for help and she gave us some guidance questions which we are kinda clueless with and didn't quite help much Dx so please help.
How does the media affect cyber-bullying?
How does cyber-bullying affect the media?
Thank u.
also I want to focus on how media affects cyberbullying in a bad way or how cyberbullying affects the media in a bad way.
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What is the connection between the media and cyber-bullying?
Hello, I am working on this Chinese project in which I have to film a 10min discussion between me and my partner about cyber-bullying but out unit is the media so during our discussion we have to find some way to connect cyber-bullying and the media. For the beginning of the film we start introducing what cyber-bullying is and what the reasons of why cyber-bulling exists. We then want to go on to talk about how cyber-bulling relates to the media in some way but we are stuck. We asked the teacher for help and she gave us some guidance questions which we are kind of clueless with and didn't quite help much Dx so please help.
How does the media affect cyber-bullying?
How does cyber-bullying affect the media?
Thank u.
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