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Understanding Cyberbullying: Recognizing and Preventing Electronic Harassment

Cyberbullying, or electronic bullying, employs digital platforms to harass and intimidate individuals, primarily affecting kids and teenagers. It encompasses direct attacks, such as hateful messages, and proxy bullying, where others are used to target a victim. The repercussions of cyberbullying can be severe, impacting education and mental health, sometimes leading to tragic outcomes like suicide. Awareness and prevention are crucial: limit personal information shared online, communicate with trusted adults, and refrain from meeting strangers. Together, we can combat this growing issue.

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Understanding Cyberbullying: Recognizing and Preventing Electronic Harassment

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  1. Respect Others!!! By: Hoi Fung CIS1055-013 Against Cyberbullying

  2. What is Cyberbullying ????????? • Known as “electronic bullying” • Uses internet or any digital technologies to harass and bully others • It is current a major issue because everyone are widely using internet online as a searching machine • Kids/teenagers are mostly be affected by cyberbullying

  3. Two types of Cyberbullying • Direct Attack • inappropriate and harmful messages sent directly to a victim • Example-Instant message/text messaging • Cyberbullying by proxy • using others to help cyberbully the victim • often gets adults involve in harassment , so is much more dangerous • Sometime a person might go in to a victim’s blog and send hateful and rude messages to people and pretend he or she is the victim

  4. Examples of Cyberbullying You will just receive a simple hateful message: “I hate you….the whole world hates you….you should just die”. Your picture and information could be posted in a website, that others could vote publicly for as like who the ugliest, fattest, or unpopular.

  5. Why teens Cyberbullying? Revenge (nearly 30%) Angry/frustration For fun (81%) Encouraged by friends Try to act tough

  6. Stats of Grades being bullied

  7. How severe it is?? • Affected students’ education in school • causing mental problems • Make each individual felt unsecure around his or her environment • the worst outcome would be causing a person to take out their own life (suicide) Think Before You Do!!

  8. Additional Stats and facts • Girls are about twice as likely as boys to be victims of cyber-bullying • Only 11% tells parents about cyberbullying • 42% of kids have been bullied while online. 1 in 4 have had it happen more than once • Now bullying are mostly being replaced by cyberbullying, since now online are open 24 hours a day and 7 days a week at all time; it is much easier for people to bully someone and easier to get away from punishment

  9. Tips / Prevention of Cyberbullying • Try to put less information about you and your personal life in social website. Also try to not upload pictures that you don’t want people to see. • Try to talk to your parents or anybody that you trusted for problems • Never agree to meet any strangers or anyone you meet online

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  11. Reference Page • Parry. “Stop Cyberbullying.”stopcyberbullying.org. Wiredkid, Inc. Web 20Jun. 2010. <http://www.stopcyberbullying.org/index2.html>. • “Stop Cyberbullying Before it Starts.”ncpc.org. National Crime Prevention Council. Web. 20 Jun.2010 .<http://www.ncpc.org/resources/files/pdf/bullying/cyberbullying.pdf>. • “Cyberbullying :Statistics and Tips” isafe.org. Isafe, Inc. 1998-2009. Web. 20 Jun. 2010. <http://www.isafe.org/channels/sub.php?ch=op&sub_id=media_cyber_bullying>. • “11 Facts about cyberbullying.” dosomething.org. Dosomething. 2003. Web. 20 Jun. 2010 <http://www.dosomething.org/tipsandtools/11-facts-about-cyber-bullying>.

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