Cyberbulling - TIC
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Bullying among children is a growing problem that threatens their well-being and development. Both traditional bullying and cyberbullying can have long-term negative health impacts on victims. Cyberbullying has even led to suicides in some cases. Education is needed to prevent cyberbullying and help children understand how to support victims rather than stand by. Children must be taught not to ignore the pain of others and how their actions online can inadvertently bully or allow bullying.
Cyberbulling - TIC
- 1. ‘‘A growing problem among children’’
- 2. Bullying is a form of physical and psychological abuse which threatens the well-being of young European citizens. In the long run young people who have been victims of bullying are at risk of developing health problems. Cyber bullying is a public health problem and an issue of children's human rights. In the worst cases cyber bullying has led to suicides among children and young people. There is therefore an urgent need for efficient methods to reduce the number of victims suffering from cyber bullying.
- 3. * Degradation - Using cruel gossip or rumors to damage someone's reputation or friendship. * Harassment - Repeatedly sending insulting, offensive and rude messages. * Cyber Stalking - Repeatedly sending threatening messages to intimidate and threaten another. This would include activities online that would make the victim concerned about their safety. * Impersonation - Impersonating the victim and sending or posting material that will make the victim look bad, damage their reputation, or get them in trouble. * Flaming - The use of vulgar & angry language to start fights with the victim using electronic means. * Text Messages - The bully gets friends together to send thousands of messages to the victim's cell phone, running up the victim's phone bill and getting them into trouble with their parent. * Password Theft - They gain access to the victim's password and use it to lock them out of their accounts and to allow others to hack into the accounts. * Web Sites - The Cyber-Bully creates pages filled with material to target the Cyber-Bullying Victim. * PC Attack - Sending viruses, worms, Trojans and spyware to damage the victim's computer. * Proxy Attack - The Cyber-Bully has others to do the dirty work for them. * Images - The Cyber-Bully posts photos of the victim that are embarrassing in nature. Sometimes these images are enhanced or altered using sophisticated graphic software programs.
- 4. *According to recent surveys it was found that 33% of our children will be subjected to Cyber-Bullying. That is right, one out of every three kids will fall victim! *Even more alarming is that it was found that 41% of these kids who were victims of Cyber-Bullying never told a parent, teacher, relative, or authority figure about it. This makes it very difficult for a parent to protect their children in that there is a good chance that if their child is a Cyber- Bullying victim that they will not even know it!
- 5. Education can help considerably in preventing and dealing with the consequences of cyberbullying. The first place to begin an education campaign is with the kids and teens themselves. We need to address ways they can become inadvertent cyberbullies, how to be accountable for their actions and not to stand by and allow bullying (in any form) to be acceptable. We need to They can even let others know that they won’t allow cyberbullying, supporting the victim, making it clear that they won’t be used to torment others and that they care about the feelings of others is key,teach them not to ignore the pain of others.