Today I came across an excellent site that deals with the growing menace of cyberbullying. With the growing use of internet, instant messaging and email by kids, it looks like cyberbullying is on the rise and we all need to make sure we know the symptoms of such a menace before we can explain to the kids what it is and what to do to prevent it.
As per the stopcyberbullying.org website:
"Cyberbullying" is when a child, preteen or teen is tormented, threatened, harassed, humiliated, embarrassed or otherwise targeted by another child, preteen or teen using the Internet, interactive and digital technologies or mobile phones. It has to have a minor on both sides, or at least have been instigated by a minor against another minor. Once adults become involved, it is plain and simple cyber-harassment or cyberstalking. Adult cyber-harassment or cyberstalking is NEVER called cyberbullying.
Just like schools have a Drug Free Zone, they should have Cyberbullying Free Zone.
Read: Stop Cyberbullying
Lessons Learnt: Kids, cyberbullying is not a cool thing to do. Just like you do, other kids also have feelings and hurting them to get pleasure out of it is definitely not cool. Don't think that just because you are not giving the other kid a wedgie in school you are not bullying him by being mean to him online.
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6 comments:
I totally agree that bullying is a totally unacceptable type of behaviour - and should be tackled more in the home and in schools.
How can one treat someone else in such a horrendous way and not even feel some kind of guilt! What happened to the good old rule: treat others the way you would like to be treated?
Let’s all try to “stamp out bullying” and make this a better place to live in! Action points that we can start think about - especially within schools:
Cyberbullying is a very bad outcome and misuse of the service. I totally agree it is a cyber crime.
All this cyberbullying is started from the word entertainment. Nowadays with the rise of technology all such kids find varied way to keep them entertained. I think schools and universities should have some course in their syllabus making such kids aware about cyberbullying and how they can escape from such disasters.
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