Cyberbullying

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Cyberbullying - National Crime Prevention Council
Cyberbullying - National Crime Prevention Council
If you’re like most teenagers, you spend a lot of time on a cell phone or instant messenger chatting with friends and uploading photos, videos, and music to websites. You may have online friends whom you’ve never met in person, with whom you play games and exchange messages. Teens’ lives exist in a variety of places such as school hallways, part-time jobs, and friends’ houses. Now many teens also have lives on the Internet. And bullying has followed teens online.
Online bullying, called cyberbullying, happens when teens use the Internet, cell phones, or other devices to send or post text or images intended to hurt or embarrass another person. Cyberbullying is a problem that affects almost half of all American teens. Whether you’ve been a victim of cyberbullying, know someone who has been cyberbullied, or have even cyberbullied yourself, there are steps you and your friends can take to stop cyberbullying and stay cyber-safe.

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Stop Cyberbullying - Safety Web
Stop Cyberbullying – Guide for Parents
Cyber bullying Facts
The cyber bullying statistics can be quite daunting. For example, a study done by isafe.org on 1,500 students grades 4-8 found the following1:
■42% of kids have been bullied while online. 1 in 4 have had it happen more than once.
■35% of kids have been threatened online. Nearly 1 in 5 have had it happen more than once.
■21% of kids have received mean or threatening e-mail or other messages.
■58% of kids admit someone has said mean or hurtful things to them online. More than 4 out of 10 say it has happened more than once.
■53% of kids admit having said something mean or hurtful to another person online. More than 1 in 3 have done it more than once.
■58% have not told their parents or an adult about something mean or hurtful that happened to them online.
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Cyberbullying Research Center
The Cyberbullying Research Center is dedicated to providing up-to-date information about the nature, extent, causes, and consequences of cyberbullying among adolescents. Cyberbullying can be defined as "willful and repeated harm inflicted through the use of computers, cell phones, and other electronic devices."
New Resources! Electronic Dating Violence: A Guide for Educators and Parents and Cyberbullying Fact Sheet: Cyberbullying and Sexual Orientation.
Summary Fact Sheet - Cyberbullying: Identification, Prevention, and Response. If you only have time to read one of our publications to get up-to-speed about the problem and what you can do, read this one!
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Stop Cyberbullying
How cyberbullying works
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). Because cyberbullying by proxy often gets adults involved in the harassment, it is much more dangerous.