You dicks

[Decade]

NEW YORK (AP) -- Nearly a third of online teens say they have been harassed on the Internet, with girls and participants of social-networking sites more likely to be targets, a study finds.

However, two-thirds of teens say bullying and harassment occur more often offline.

According to the Pew Internet and American Life Project, the most common forms of cyberbullying are publicly disclosing someone else's private e-mail or messages, sending threatening or aggressive messages and spreading rumors online.

Pew also counts as cyberbullying the posting of an embarrassing picture of someone else without permission.

Thirty-two percent of online teens said they have experienced at least one of those acts.

It rose to 38 percent among online girls and 39 percent among users of social-networking sites like MySpace and Facebook.

The telephone study of 886 U.S. Internet users age 12 to 17 was conducted October 23 to November 19. It has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 4 percentage points.



http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/internet/06/28/cyber.bully.ap/index.html

Dammit PLF, you've become infamous even though you've left 2/3 alone. :duh:

[Kwiz]

According to the Pew Internet and American Life Project, the most common forms of cyberbullying are publicly disclosing someone else's private e-mail or messages, sending threatening or aggressive messages and spreading rumors online.

You mean the same pointless crap that people my age do at their schools and other social venues happens online as well? Color me shocked.

[PopCulturePooka]

You mean the same pointless crap that people my age do at their schools and other social venues happens online as well? Color me shocked.
Big problem is, and one I'm facing alot as a teacher...

At schools there are steps teachers can take to intervene on bullying. By policy and a few other things theres nothing I can do to stop students being bullied or bullying online.

As a teacher who has a social networking page (bebo) specifically set up for students to add me, I see some of the bullying that goes on. Eg Whoe profiles or groups made hating on one student. Streams of abusive messages and photos. The works.

But theres nothing really I can do.

[Jetsetlemming]

Big problem is, and one I'm facing alot as a teacher...

At schools there are steps teachers can take to intervene on bullying. By policy and a few other things theres nothing I can do to stop students being bullied or bullying online.

As a teacher who has a social networking page (bebo) specifically set up for students to add me, I see some of the bullying that goes on. Eg Whoe profiles or groups made hating on one student. Streams of abusive messages and photos. The works.

But theres nothing really I can do.
Except report them to the social networking site itself? They typically have rules and such about this. :blank:

[RandomPasserby]

JSL is my internet bully.

[Jetsetlemming]

Have over the lunch money, dweeb.

[PopCulturePooka]

Except report them to the social networking site itself? They typically have rules and such about this. :blank:
I've done that, but the deal with cyber bullying is, the cyber bullies know theres fewer repurcussions for doing it (I should know ;))

I can't give a kid a detention or suspension for shit she posts on another girls bebo.

What I can and have done is use that knowledge of what I'm seeing to be more vigilant for that behaviour in the classroom or playground and swooping on it then.

[Kwiz]

What I can and have done is use that knowledge of what I'm seeing to be more vigilant for that behaviour in the classroom or playground and swooping on it then.

Out of curiosity, what kind of patterns do you notice?

[PopCulturePooka]

Out of curiosity, what kind of patterns do you notice?
Online or in the physical medium?

[Kwiz]

I was thinking of correlations between the two.

[Hatsumomo]

The worst thing about cyber-bullying is that the victims now have no sanctuary. When I was bullied in school, I could go home and be free. Nowadays, kids in the position I was don't even have that. Their bullies can continue their attacks after school hours and spread to a wider audience.

[Comazon]

I think it's other way around, personally.

I've found it pretty easy to avoid people online. Many message boards, online games, and instant messengers have block/ignore features. That way, even if it may start out hostile, you can make it the way you want by weeding out the assholes.

If that fails, you could easily go to a different message board or what not, which is much easier than trying to transfer to a new school or finding a new job.

Plus, I've been prank called a couple times when I was younger, so at least my home hasn't been the most perfect of sanctuaries.

[PopCulturePooka]

Problems occur when the kid (and cyber bullying is more common amongst girls apparantly) is being bullied at school, and the same individuals who bully that kid at school are the ones who bring it to them online.

The worst forms of cyber bullying arent random mean guy on a forum (ala me), but the pack of girls who start shit at lunch time going round to your mysapce posting mean comment, flooding your msn with abuse and messaging all your friends with hate comments. Bullying via txt message is another form of cyber bullying that is commonly used.

Because this bullying is coming from known peers, merely changing the myspace/bebo/msn address doesn't work. They'll find it again or you can go into lockdown and cut everyone off, which is a victory for the bullies.

For a kid whose being bullied at school and comes home, where it should safe from those kids, to find those same kids have her bebo, myspace, IM and phone number, theres no real escape.

Kwizard, I'll respond to you soon. Breakfast >.>

[Hatsumomo]

^What PCP said. To add: there's the added bonus of using camera phones, video cameras, and creating websites to cause further humiliation. They can secretly take a picture of you doing something rather innocent and twist it around to make it look like you were doing something perverted or disgusting and then post it on a website specifically designated to abusing you. Then you come to school the next day and everybody is snickering and pointing at you and making snide comments behind your back. Some kind soul points the website out to you and another piece of your soul has been ripped away.

[japanat]

If it were my child being bullied online, I would take screenshots of all the bullying, and start by seeing a good lawyer re: defamation of character, slander and libel. I would also print out hardcopy of said materials, and then, if my child gave their approval, take it to the parents of the kids involved.

And if that didn't work, I'd start a little Photoshop slander of my own...

[Comazon]

I was thinking more about the jerks you meet online, and not those that you met in real life and try to hunt you down in cyberspace.

I also never used MySpace or Facebook, so I guess I never had that issue. :meh:

[Injuryprone]

I've done that, but the deal with cyber bullying is, the cyber bullies know theres fewer repurcussions for doing it (I should know ;))

I can't give a kid a detention or suspension for shit she posts on another girls bebo.

I got suspended for 2 days for sending a mean e-mail over spring break...to my entire class. Her parents were cops and tried to pull that I had violent intent, they wanted me kicked out of the school. They over-reacted quite a bit.

[Eddie Echoplex]

I've done that, but the deal with cyber bullying is, the cyber bullies know theres fewer repurcussions for doing it (I should know ;))

I can't give a kid a detention or suspension for shit she posts on another girls bebo.

What I can and have done is use that knowledge of what I'm seeing to be more vigilant for that behaviour in the classroom or playground and swooping on it then.

Why not hacking the bullie's PC? Ask someone to do it.

[Citizen]

The worst thing about cyber-bullying is that the victims now have no sanctuary. When I was bullied in school, I could go home and be free. Nowadays, kids in the position I was don't even have that. Their bullies can continue their attacks after school hours and spread to a wider audience.

They could always turn their computers off from time to time. Or find a different website to use. I've heard tell that the internet has quite a few of those.

[Hatsumomo]

To add: there's the added bonus of using camera phones, video cameras, and creating websites to cause further humiliation. They can secretly take a picture of you doing something rather innocent and twist it around to make it look like you were doing something perverted or disgusting and then post it on a website specifically designated to abusing you. Then you come to school the next day and everybody is snickering and pointing at you and making snide comments behind your back. Some kind soul points the website out to you and another piece of your soul has been ripped away.

It doesn't disappear just because you step away from the computer. And sometimes the Internet can be a victim's only outlet. Are they supposed to completely disconnect from something they may find enjoyable because of some assholes at school?

[Citizen]

It doesn't disappear just because you step away from the computer.

It doesn't disappear just because you go home from school, either.

And sometimes the Internet can be a victim's only outlet. Are they supposed to completely disconnect from something they may find enjoyable because of some assholes at school?

If the internet is their only outlet, that's even more reason to turn the computer off from time to time and, you know, attempt to find something else to do.

[Hatsumomo]

And yet, home should be the one place you don't have to deal with bullying. You're kind of missing the point about the use of technology as a means to abuse others. It's not as if the Internet is the only method out there. Should they have to disconnect their phones because the bullies decide to leave nasty text or voice messages? Avoid going to the video store or the mall lest they run into their tormentors there?

[Citizen]

Home shouldn't be the only place you don't have to deal with it. Ideally, you shouldn't have to deal with it anywhere. =P

But fair enough.

[Hatsumomo]

Home shouldn't be the only place you have to deal with it. Ideally, you shouldn't have to deal with it anywhere. =P

Agreed, but adolescents are assholes. You could not pay me enough to go back.

[manrush]

http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/internet/06/28/cyber.bully.ap/index.html

Dammit PLF, you've become infamous even though you've left 2/3 alone. :duh:

That's hilarious

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: