Cyber Bullying!
Cyber bullying refers to bullying through information and communication technologies,
mediums such as mobile phone text messages, emails, phone calls, internet chat rooms, instant messaging and the latest trend social networking websites such as MySpace, Facebook and Twitter. Cyber bullying is a fast growing trend that experts believe is more harmful than typical schoolyard bullying. Nearly all of us can be contacted by the internet or our mobile phones. Victims can be reached anytime and anyplace. For many children, home is no longer a refuge from the bullies. “Children can escape threats and abuse in the classroom, only to find text messages and emails from the same tormentors when they arrive home.”
Cyber-bullying is put into two categories:
Synchronic: Considered “LIVE” bullying or technology that allows for real time.
Social networking sites, i.e. (Facebook, Myspace)
States with Cyber bullying laws
mediums such as mobile phone text messages, emails, phone calls, internet chat rooms, instant messaging and the latest trend social networking websites such as MySpace, Facebook and Twitter. Cyber bullying is a fast growing trend that experts believe is more harmful than typical schoolyard bullying. Nearly all of us can be contacted by the internet or our mobile phones. Victims can be reached anytime and anyplace. For many children, home is no longer a refuge from the bullies. “Children can escape threats and abuse in the classroom, only to find text messages and emails from the same tormentors when they arrive home.”
Cyber-bullying is put into two categories:
Synchronic: Considered “LIVE” bullying or technology that allows for real time.
- Chat rooms
- Instant messaging
- Cell phones-text messaging
- Online gaming, i.e. (World of War Craft, XBOX live)
Social networking sites, i.e. (Facebook, Myspace)
- youtube.com
- Ages 9-14 are most commonly known as both victims and bullies
- Of those who are cyber-bullied frequently:
- 62% were cyber-bullied by a student from their school
- 46% were cyber-bullied from a friend
- 55% did not know who had cyber-bullied them
- 18% - cyber-bullied at least once in the last couple months
- And 6% said it happened to them 2 or more times
- Girls are twice as likely as boys to be involved in cyber-bulling, as victim or perpetrator
States with Cyber bullying laws
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