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What is cyber bullying? involves the use of information and communication technologies to support deliberate, repeated, and hostile behavior by an individual or group, that is intended to harm others. Cyber-bullying can be as simple as continuing to send e-mail to someone who has said they want no further contact with the user.
We need to teach our children that silence, when others are being hurt, is not acceptable. Nearly 35% of kids have been threatened online and almost one in five have had it happen more than once. http://www.dosomething.org/tipsandtools/11-facts-about-cyber-bullying
20 per cent of schoolchildren between the ages of ten and 11 have been bullied over the web, according to figures from the Anti-Bullying Alliance.
cyberbullys: they are often motivated by anger, revenge or frustration. Sometimes they do it for entertainment or because they are bored and have too much time on their hands and too many tech toys available to them.
There are two kinds of cyberbullying, direct attacks (messages sent to your kids directly) and cyberbullying by proxy (using others to help cyberbully the victim, either with or without the accomplice's knowledge).
Being part of the in crowd for teens used to mean hanging out where the cool kids were -- the mall, the house party, the rave. Now all they have to do is be within cell-phone range. -by Elisa Batista, Wired News, May 16, 2003
Be polite to others online just as you would off-line. If someone treats you rudely or meanly - do not respond. Online bullies are just like off-line. ones - they WANT you to answer (don't give them the satisfaction).
http://www.cyberbullying.org/
Girls are about twice as likely as boys to be victims and perpetrators of cyber-bullying.
The primary cyber-bullying location where victimizing occurs, at 56%, is in chat rooms
Alexis Moore http://www.bullyonline.org/related/cyber.htm
Cyber bullying
http://www.stopcyberbullying.org/how_it_works/index.html