Cyberbullying
What is Cyberbullying?
Cyber-bullying involves the use of information and communication technologies such as email, cell phone and text messages, instant messaging, and defamatory personal websites, to support deliberate, repeated and hostile behavior by an individual or group that is intended to harm others. - Bill Belsey
How to Prevent Cyberbullying?
Cyberbullying is bullying online. It consists of any of the following actions committed by an individual or group to another individual or group: threats of violence, hate speech, harassment peer pressure, bribery, psychological abuse, extortion. Cyberbullying can have a serious detrimental effect on a person’s self-esteem, emotional well-being, and sense of personal safety. As a result, this can lead to the following negative consequences: depression, despondence, self-destructive behavior, and poor performance in school or at work.
Looking at the most recent victims of cyber bullying, both boys and girls are likely to report feeling angry, sad, and embarrassed. Slightly more girls than boys feel frustrated, while significantly more boys are scared as a result of cyberbullying.
We must protect our kids from becoming helpless victims of online harassment.
What We Must Know About Cyberbullying
1. Cyberbullying is a growing trend all over the world
2. Most children do not tell adults when they have been cyber bullied
3. Children as young as five years can become victims of cyberbullying
4. One in four, aged eleven to nineteen, has been threatened via their computers or cell phones, including death threats. [NCH -National Children's Home, UK].
Cyberbullying Prevention Resources
Cyberbullying Facts
Examples, facts, ideas, related articles, news, and research about cyberbullying. A useful website for teachers, parents and students.
Stop Bullying Now
What are the effects of cyberbullying? - Research on cyberbullying has found that students involved are more likely to be unwilling to attend school, receive poor grades, have lower self-esteem, and have more health problems. Click here to find out more...
Cyberbullying
Cyberbullying is deliberate, repeated, and hostile behaviour by an individual or group, that is intended to harm others. To download information sheets about cyberbullying, click here.
Cyberbullying Prevention
Kids everywhere are being Ccberbullied! Do you want to know how to teach your children to make wise decisions about using the internet? To find out, click here.
Wired Safety
The world's largest Internet safety, help and education resource.
Bully
An anti-bullying website with anti-bullying events for young people. Strategies to tackle the bully. Find out more.
Stop Cyberbullying
"Cyberbullying" happens when a child is threatened, harassed, humiliated, embarrassed or otherwise targeted by another child, using the Internet or mobile phones. Children have killed each other and committed suicide after having been involved in a cyberbullying incident. Find out more, click here.
Bully Beware
The tool you need to take action against bullying in your school.
Cyberbullying - Special Edition
Find out what happens to children who are bullied and how cyberbullying is different from face-to-face bullying.
Safe Surfing Kids
For teachers and parents, this website contains information about protecting and helping kids with safe use of the Internet.
Bullying Course
Bullying is often the number one non-academic issue that many educators face. However, it is possible to prevent bullying through education and awareness. Learn how.
Bullies to Buddies
It is a very useful website for teachers, parents, school principles, administrators, students, and mental health professionals.
Bully Online
Bully Online is the world's largest resource on bullying and related issues. Learn how to recognize a serial bully. Click here to find out more.
Cyberbully Alert
The CyberBully Alert software is a tool for parents to equip their children with the ability to immediately communicate and document any threats or cyberbullying their children experience when online.
Cyber-Bullying Prevention
Fifteen-year old Iain Steele of Western Springs, Illinois hanged himself with a belt after being assaulted by schoolmates in cyberspace, where students posted a video on Facebook making fun of his taste for heavy metal music. Find out more...
Parent Further
It is a very useful website for parents and educators. Although each child is unique, there are some common issues that parents have to deal with. You can click on the age range of your children in the navigation bar to start exploring the advice. Start here...
Cyberbullying: References
Various types of cyberbullying are listed.
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