Schools, teachers, and parents should take action against kids who use mobile phones and the internet to bully other children and even teachers. Social networking sites, instant messages, and other forms of digital commubication are...
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Schools, teachers, and parents should take action against kids who use mobile phones and the internet to bully other children and even teachers. Social networking sites, instant messages, and other forms of digital commubication are being used by bullies to threaten or scare other students. This is a zine dedicated to discussing ways to prevent or stop cyber-bullying.
With the palpable rise in the usage of mobiles and computers, has gradually risen the malevolent trend of Cyber Bullying wherein individuals employ electronic communication for harming others. Cyber bullies could make use of text messaging, telephone calls, email, instant messaging services, social networking websites and web pages as a means of causing embarrassment to others. Bullying also dubbed as harassment, would translate to passing around malicious fake gossips, sending derogatory... Read Full Story
People believe that kids are the main victims to cyberbullying. However, cyber stalking and harassment happens to people of all ages. Amazingly enough, people believe that more men cyberbully than women, but that isn't so. Females are more prone to cyberbullying than males because it is believed that women spend more time on the internet than men. Harassment and stalking takes all forms. With technology leading us more and more to the internet for our information, spreading hatred is now... Read Full Story
Bullying has been around since the beginning of time. Parents, you may remember you or your friends being bullied as a child. No doubt you remember the hurt, frustration, and sadness it caused.
These days, however, bullying isn’t just happening on the playground or at the bus stop, it’s happening on the Internet and on your kids’ cell phones, making it possible to bully a child 24 hours a day and include thousands of participants.
Cyberbullying follows children around the clock, and... Read Full Story
Bullying has been around since the beginning of time. Parents, you may remember you or your friends being bullied as a child. No doubt you remember the hurt, frustration, and sadness it caused.
These days, however, bullying isn’t just happening on the playground or at the bus stop, it’s happening on the Internet and on your kids’ cell phones, making it possible to bully a child 24 hours a day and include thousands of participants.
Cyberbullying follows children around the clock, and... Read Full Story
"All cruelty springs from weakness." (Seneca, 4 BC-65 AD) Following is a post on bullying and cyber bullying offered as guidelines. I believe, the principles that apply to bullying also apply to cyber-bullying. Issues related to bullying and cyber-bullying Source: http://www.bullyonline.org/related/cyber.htm The Internet provides the perfect forum for cyberbullies, individuals whose aim is to gain gratification from the distress caused by... Read Full Story
The New York Times had a powerful story about "cyberbullies" .
Just in case you haven't heard the phrase before, let me explain that cyberbullies are people who use the internet and online chat rooms to stalk, threaten and abuse people. In my opinion, cyberbullies are even more cowardly than traditional schoolyard bullies, because they hide behind their monitors to avoid identification.
The NYTimes story, entitled "When the Bullies Turned Faceless" , was written by Christopher Maag. He... Read Full Story
Missouri has responded effectively to cyber bullying via web sites and text messaging; has your state?
After the Lori Drew case in Missouri, in which a MySpace account was used to bully 13-year old Megan Meier, who committed suicide, Missouri legislators passed laws criminalizing cyber-bullying, harassment and abuse, and schools created zero-tolerance policies. School authorities and [...]
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Law Downtown California Representative Linda Sanchez on Monday expressed strong disappointment over the dismissal of charges against MySpace suicide suspect Lori Drew, saying that the decision could pave way to more cases of cyber bullying.
In a statement issued after the judge rendered its decision, Sanchez said that U.S. District Court in Los Angeles has made the wrong ruling, saying that the dismissal of the charges can further aggravate the now worsen condition of cyberspace.
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Words can have powerful meanings to people. For example, if I mention the word alcoholic, most people conjure up a middle aged to older adult, sitting on a park bench, clothes disheveled and drinking out of a paper bag. If I mention the word bully, most people conjure up a middle school to high school student, of larger appearance, twisting other kids arms and stealing their lunch money.
This is a notion of the past. With today’s technology, anyone can be a bully. It can be the 13-year-old... Read Full Story
According to an editorial in the New York Times, “Vague Cyberbullying Law,” “Lori Drew acted grotesquely if, as prosecutors charged, she went online and bullied her daughter’s classmate, a 13-year-old girl who ended up committing suicide. A federal court was right, however, to throw out her misdemeanor convictions recently. The crimes she was found guilty [...]
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