• It can take the form of a message on email or IM or a social networking site from someone who is threatening to hurt you or beat you up.

• It might be rumors posted on your profile or spread online for others to see.

• It might be the deletion of you on a friend’s “buddy list” to make you feel left out.

• It could be a profile made by someone pretending to be you.

• Or, someone hacking into your profile and writing comments pretending they’re from you.

• Common cyberbullying behaviors include name calling, teasing, sexual harassment, being ignored or disrespected, or being decieved by a bully who misrepresents themselves

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Cyber bullying occurs in many different places online including instant messaging, social networking sites, email, and chat rooms. The most common place bullying occurs online is over instant messenger, or text messaging.

 

 

Common Forms of Cyberbullying:

• Flaming and Trollling:  sending or posting messages to "inflame" the emotions of others, online fighting

• Harrassment:  Repeatedly sending offensive, rude, and insulting messages

• Physical Threats: threats to a person's physical safety

• Happy-Slapping:  Recording someone being harassed or bullied usually this is a recording of a physical abuse that is posted online for public viewing

• Impersonation:  stealing someone's password  or hijacking their account and then posting incriminating or humiliating pictures, video or even information

• Rumor Spreading:  gossip through email, text messaging, or social networking

• Outing and Trickery:  sharing someone's secrets to embarrass or trick someone to reveal something that would be embarrassing

• Photoshopping:  changing images to place a person in a compromising or embarrassing situation

• CyberStalking:  Repeating sending threats or highly intimidating messages that makes the victim afraid for his safety

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• 1/3 of online teens (ages 12-17) have been cyberbullied

• Girls are more likely to be victim of Cyberbullying than boys

• US Center for Disease Control and Prevention now consider cyberbullying and emerging adolescent health concern

• traditional bullying appears to peak in middle school and drop off, cyberbullying tend to slightly increase amount high school students

• Cyberbullying can happens to kids as young as 2nd grade

• 90% of kids 8 -12 have used the internet

• 34% of 11 year olds have a profile on a social networking site​

~ Facts obtained from WebWiseWebsite

 

 

"How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and the strong....because some day in your life you will have been all of these."

 

      - George Washington Carver