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Also note that the best practice in dealing with a bully is to
avoid any return response and look the other way. Maintain your position and report or record the
incident.
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cyber bullying protection IS KEY
TO PROTECTING THE INNOCENT. PLEASE MONITOR ALL ACTIVITY UNTIL TRUST AND TALENT IS ESTABLISHED. THE INTERNET HAS
MANY ADVANTAGES.
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CBS NEWS BULLY VIDEO :
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11 Facts About Cyber bullying
cyber bullying protection and prevention is key to
preventing a cyber bully from entering your world.
Nearly 35% of kids have been threatened online and almost one in five have had it
happen more than once.
Among this percentage, being ignored and disrespectful were the most common forms
of cyber bullying.
Nine out of ten middle school students have had their feelings hurt
online.
About 75% have visited a Web site bashing another student.
Four out of ten middle school students have had their password(s) stolen and
changed by a bully who then locked them out of their own account or sent communications posing as
them.
About 21% of kids have received mean or threatening e-mails.
The psychological and emotional outcomes of cyber-bullying are similar to
real-life bullying outcomes, except for the reality that with cyber bullying there is often no escape.
School ends at 3 p. m., while the Internet is available all the time.
The primary cyber bullying location where victimizing occurs, at 56%, is in chat
rooms.
Girls are about twice as likely as boys to be victims and perpetrators of
cyber-bullying.
About 58% of kids admit someone has said mean or hurtful things to them online.
More than four out of ten say it has happened more than once.
Cyber-bullying has increased in recent years. In a national survey of 10-17 year
olds, twice as many children indicated they had been victims and perpetrators of online harassment in
2005 compared with 2000.
Cyber bullying and Cyber threats: Responding to the Challenge of Online
Social Aggression, Threats, and Distress
Description
Online communications can be cruel and vicious. They take place 24/7. Damaging text and images can be widely
disseminated and impossible to fully remove. There are emerging reports of youth suicide, violence, and
abduction related to cyber bullying and cyber threats. In this book, the author provides school counselors,
administrators, teachers and parents with cutting-edge information on how to prevent and respond to cyber
bullying and cyber threats. It covers challenging issues that occur as students embrace the Internet and other
digital technologies such as: *Sending offensive, harassing messages *dissing someone or spreading nasty rumors
online *Disclosing someone's intimate personal information *Breaking into someone's e-mail account and sending
damaging messages under that person's name *Excluding someone from an online group *Using the Internet to
intimidate The book includes detailed guidelines for managing in-school use of the Internet and personal
devices, including cell phones. Appendices contain reproducible assessment and program forms, as well as parent
and student handouts.
Cyber bullying, which is sometimes referred to as online social cruelty or electronic bullying, can involve:
Sending mean, vulgar, or threatening messages or images;
Posting sensitive, private information about another person;
Pretending to be someone else in order to make that person look bad;
Intentionally excluding someone from an online group (Willard, 2005).
Children and youth can cyber bully each other through:
E-mails,
Instant messaging,
Text or digital imaging messages sent on cell phones,
Web pages,
Web logs (blogs),
Chat rooms or discussion groups, and
Other information communication technologies.
How common is cyber bullying?
Although little research has been conducted on cyber bullying, recent studies have found that:
18% of students in grades 6-8 said they had been cyber bullied at least once in the last couple of months;
and 6% said it had happened to them 2 or more times (Kowalski et al., 2005).
11% of students in grades 6-8 said they had cyber bullied another person at least once in the last couple
of months, and 2% said they had done it two or more times (Kowalski et al., 2005).
19% of regular Internet users between the ages of 10 and 17 reported being involved in online aggression;
15% had been aggressors, and 7% had been targets (3% were both aggressors and targets) (Ybarra & Mitchell,
2004).
17% of 6-11 year-olds and 36% of 12-17-year-olds reported that someone said threatening or embarrassing
things about them through e-mail, instant messages, web sites, chat rooms, or text messages (Fight Crime:
Invest in Kids, 2006).
Cyber bullying has increased in recent years. In nationally representative surveys of 10-17 year-olds,
twice as many children and youth indicated that they had been victims and perpetrators of online harassment in
2005 compared with 1999/2000 (Wolak, Mitchell, & Finkelhor, 2006).
Who are the victims and perpetrators of cyber bullying?
In a recent study of students in grades 6-8 (Kowalski et al., 2005):
Girls were about twice as likely as boys to be victims and perpetrators of cyber bullying.
Of those students who had been cyber bullied relatively frequently (at least twice in the last couple of
months):
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.
Of those students who admitted cyber bullying others relatively frequently:
60% had cyber bullied another student at school, and 56% had cyber bullied a friend.
What are the most common methods of cyber bullying?
In recent studies of middle and high school students, (Fight Crime: Invest in Kids, 2006; Kowalski et al., 2005;
Wolak, Mitchell, & Finkelhor, 2006) the most common way that children and youth reported being cyber bullied
was through instant messaging. Somewhat less common ways involved the use of chat rooms, e-mails, and messages
posted on web sites. A study of younger children (Fight Crime: Invest in Kids, 2006) showed that they were most
often bullied through e-mail, comments on a web site, or in a chat room.
The information found on the cyberbullyinglaws.com web site is protected by the copyright laws of the
United States and may not be copied, or reproduced in any way without the expressed, written consent of the
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