Cyberbullying
Don't do it! Be good at home and online!
What is cyberbullying?
Cyberbullying is being mean through the internet or cell phone.
Examples:
- Sending someone mean or threatening emails, instant messages, or text messages
- Excluding someone from an instant messenger buddy list or blocking their email for no reason
- Tricking someone into revealing personal or embarrassing information and sending it to others
- Breaking into someone's email or instant message account to send cruel or untrue messages while posing as that person
- Creating websites to make fun of another person such as a classmate or teacher
- Using websites to rate peers as prettiest, ugliest, etc.
What TO DO if you or someone else is being cyberbullied
- Report it to an adult or your school
- If it is a post - report the post on the website
- Tell the bully to stop
- Block or delete the bully
- Don't react to the bully - that is what they want you to do!
- Keep a record of the incidents that take place
What NOT to do
- Don't cyberbully back
- Don't repeat or forward any messages
- Don't join in with a bully to cyberbully someone else
- Don't post any pictures (even if it's not mean) without the other person's permission
Stats
- 43% of kids have been cyberbullied, most more than once
- 70% of students report seeing frequent bullying online
- 81% of young people think bullying online is easier to get away with
- Only 1 in 10 victims report the cyberbully
Victims are more likely to..
- Have low self esteem
- Have trouble forming relationships in life
- Be scared of going online
- Feel unsafe even at home
- Have problems with depression or anxiety