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The Internet can be a wonderful place for you and your family to get useful, educational information. It's also a source of entertainment and social connections. However, if not carefully navigated, the Internet can be a scary and offensive place, full of pornography, cyberbullies, and viruses waiting to infect you computer.
A cyberbully is someone who uses the Internet or cell phones to send hurtful messages or post false information to damage the reputation and friendships of others. This type of social aggression is found on a personal website, blogs, email, chat room, instant messaging, message boards, discussion groups, or via the cell phone by voice, text or photos. It can be someone that your child knows or a complete stranger. It can be a continuation of in-school bullying. The aggressor may think that they can get away with it because they feel anonymous, it's not bullying if it's online or the ever famous 'freedom of speech' - they can write or post what ever they want without consequenses.
Types of cyberbulling can take many forms:
Harrassment: Repeatedly sending offensive, angry or rude messages.
Exclusion: Intentionally excluding someone from an online group.
Cyberstalking: Creating fear by sending offensive, angry and rude messages or engaging in threatening activity.
Impersonaltion: Pretending to be someone else and posting material that will damage that person's reputation.
Denigration: Spreading false rumor or posting false information about someone online.
Flaming: Angry and rude arguments.
Trickery or Outing: Tricking someone into disclosing private information which is used to disseminate that person.
Cyberbullying can cause emotional harm to the person who is the victim. Often times, the information that is used to hurt a person is widely disseminated and impossible to remove from the Internet. Cyber bullying can lead to youth depression, suicide and violence.
How to Prevent Your Child From Becoming A Target:
Make sure your child knows not to post information that could be used maliciously.
Frequently visit your child's online communities and discuss the values of those who participate.
Make sure that you have access to your child's email and online communities. It is your right as a parent to check up on their online behaviors. make sure your child knows this.
Help your child by reinforcing your child's strengths and fostering healthy friendships.
Warning Signs:
Indications that your child is being bullied at school.
Sadness or anger during or after Internet use.
Withdrawl from friends and activities, school avoidance, depression, and decline of grades.
Take Action:
Responsibly manage your child's Internet usage at home by keeping the computer in the family room and supervise his/her Internet time.
Find out what website and online communities your child uses and review what he or she is posting. remind your child that these sites are public places.
Make sure your child knows to aks for help if he or she is being bullied online. It is important that he/she knows to not retaliate, and to save the evidence.
Ignore the cyberbully by leaving the online environment and blocking communications from this person. Ask you Internet service provider or cell phone company for help.
File a complaint with the Internet or cell phone company.
Send the evidence to the cyberbully's parents along with a letter that includes the evidence of cyberbullying. Demand that actions be taken to stop and that the material be removed.
Ask the school for assistance.
Contact the police if the cyberbullying involves violence, intimidation based on hate or bias, coersion, or any form of sexual exploitation.
Contact an attorney to send a letter or file a lawsuit against the cyberbully's parents.
If Your Child Is A Cyberbully:
Find out if your child is being bullied at school. Work with your child to stop the bullying an make sure he/she knows not to retaliate online.
Make it clear that the Internet can be used in accordance with family values of kindness and respect for others.
If your cild has cyberbullied, you are responsible for preventing any continuation of the offense. You can be financially liable for the harm that your child causes to others.
