How Are Teens Cyberbullied?

It should be a painful experience of being a victim of cyberbullying. Some people who cyberbully others, pretend they are other people online to trick others spread lies and rumors about victims,trick people into revealing personal information, send or forward mean text messages, post pictures of victims without their awareness.

When teens were asked why they think others cyberbully, 81 percent said that cyberbullies think it’s funny.

Other teens believe that youth who cyberbully,

Don’t think it’s a big deal

Don’t think about the consequences

Are encouraged by friends

Think everybody cyberbullies

Think they won’t get caught


What can Cyber Bullying do?
• Lower self
• Cause suicide
• Cause depression
• Cause kids to skip school
• Lead to issues in later life
• Cause a person to withdraw
• Run up your text messing bill
• Feel sad and lower self confidence
• Cause you to have to change email or user ID to change your identity

http://www.teachtoday.eu/en/Teacher-advice/Cyberbullying/What-are-the-effects-of-cyberbullying.aspx
http://www.ncpc.org/topics/cyberbullying

What is Cyberbullying?

Have you ever recieved an email, got text messages or read a blog posting where you saw the writer had been intentionally negative or harmfull, with the intention to cause hurt? Have you ever heard about online polls where people vote and they are impersonating someone by using their email, instead of using their own? Have you ever seen postings of a rude picture of someone? If so, then you’ve seen Cyber Bullying.

If you’re like most teenagers, you spend a lot of time on a cell phone or instant messenger chatting with friends and uploading photos, videos, and music to websites. You may have online friends whom you’ve never met in person, with whom you play games and exchange messages. Teens’ lives exist in a variety of places such as school hallways, part-time jobs, and friends’ houses. Now many teens also have lives on the Internet. And bullying has followed teens online.

Online bullying, called cyberbullying, happens when teens use the Internet, cell phones, or other devices to send or post text or images intended to hurt or embarrass another person. Cyberbullying is a problem that affects almost half of all American teens. Whether you’ve been a victim of cyberbullying, know someone who has been cyberbullied, or have even cyberbullied yourself, there are steps you and your friends can take to stop cyberbullying and stay cyber-safe.

“Threatening or other offensive behavior sent online to a victim or posted online about the victim for others to see.” (Wolak, Mitchell, Finkelhor et al., 2006).

http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,,sid9_gci1023061,00.html
http://www.ncpc.org/cyberbullying

Where CyberBullying Can Occur?

• Emails

• IM (instant message)

• Blogs

• Online polls

• Websites

• Text messaging

• Over the phone

• Chat rooms

• Bulletin boards

• Social networking sites (MySpace, Facebook)