Bullying and Cyber Bullying

1. Bullying andCyber Bullying Robert Tricquet Leon County School District Department of Safety, Security and Emergency Management

2. Bully Facts and Statistics • It is estimated that 160,000 children miss school every day due to fear of attack or intimidation by other students. Source: National Education Association. • American schools harbor approximately 2.1 million bullies and 2.7 million of their victims. Dan Olweus, National School Safety Center. • 1 in 7 Students in Grades K-12 is either a bully or a victim of bullying. • 56% of students have personally witnessed some type of bullying at school. • 15% of all school absenteeism is directly related to fears of being bullied at school. • 71% of students report incidents of bullying as a problem at their school. According to bullying statistics, 1 out of every 10 students who drops out of school does so because of repeated bullying.

3. What is Bullying? Bullying is: • aggressive behavior that is intentional (not accidental or done in fun) • involves an imbalance of power or strength. • repeated over time. (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2011; Olweus, 1991)

4. Four Types of Bullying • Verbal and Non-verbal • Ignoring/isolation • Teasing • Jokes • Name calling • Gossip • Threats • Property • Hiding belongings • Theft • Extortion (blackmail) • Vandalism • Destruction of property • Sexual • Teasing with sexual overtones • Touching • Jokes • Saying someone is gay • Pictures • E-mail • Graffiti • Sexual assault • Physical • Blocking someone’s path • Physical restraint • Pushing • Kicking • Tripping • punching

5. What is Social Networking?

6. Allows users to: • Create web pages that provide information about themselves • Available to be viewed by other users • Allows searches and communication with other users • Over 300 different social networking sites • Information

7. Statistics: • More than half (50%) of US youths use online social networking sites Primary Uses: • 91% stay in touch with friends • 72% make plans with friends • Communicate primarily through comments and site email (party flyers) • Half of users visit their site at least once a day (Wikipedia 2012)

8. Popular Social Networking Websites Myspace.com Facebook.comYouTube.com Twitter.com Tumbler.com Imgfave.com PS3 Xbox Live Moshimonsters.com Chatroulette.com Instagram SnapChat KIK Vine ASK.FM

10. My Space Statistics Myspace (stylized as myspace, previously stylized as MySpace and My_____)[5] is a social networking service with a strong music emphasis owned by Specific Media LLC and pop music singer and actor Justin Timberlake.[6] Myspace was launched in August 2003 and is headquartered in Beverly Hills, California.[7][8] In June 2012, Myspace had 25 million unique U.S. visitors.[9] Myspace was founded in 2003 and was acquired by News Corporation in July 2005 for $580 million.[10]From 2005 until early 2008, Myspace was the most visited social networking site in the world, and in June 2006 surpassed Google as the most visited website in the United States.[11][12] (2006-100 million users) In April 2008, Myspace was overtaken by Facebook in the number of unique worldwide visitors, and was surpassed in the number of unique U.S. visitors in May 2009,[13][14] though Myspace generated $800 million in revenue during the 2008 fiscal year.[15] Since then, the number of Myspace users has declined steadily in spite of several redesigns.[16] As of June 2013[update], Myspace was ranked 303 by total web traffic, and 223 in the United States.[3] In June 2009, Myspace employed approximately 1,600 workers.[20] Since then the company has undergone several rounds of layoffs and by June 2011, Myspace had reduced its staff to around 200.[2] In June 2011, Specific Media Group and Justin Timberlake jointly purchased the company for approximately $35 million.[21] (Wikipedia 2012)

12. Facebook is an online social networking service. Its name stems from the colloquial name for the book given to students at the start of the academic year by some American university administrations to help students get to know one another.[7] • Facebook was founded in February 2004 by Mark Zuckerbergwith his college roommates and fellow Harvard University students Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes.[8] The founders had initially limited the website's membership to students of the University of Harvard, but later expanded it to colleges in the Boston area, the Ivy League, and Stanford University. It gradually added support for students at various other universities before it opened to high school students, and eventually to anyone ages 13 and over. • Facebook now allows anyone who claims to be at least 13 years old to become a registered user of the website.[9] • Users must register before using the site, after which they may create a personal profile, add other users as friends, exchange messages, and receive automatic notifications when they update their profile. Additionally, users may join common-interest user groups, organized by workplace, school or college, or other characteristics, and categorize their friends into lists such as "People From Work" or "Close Friends". • As of September 2012, Facebook has over one billion active users,[10] of which 8.7% are fake.[11] According to a May 2011 Consumer Reports survey, there are 7.5 million children under 13 with accounts and 5 million under 10, violating the site's terms of service.[12] Facebook (as of 2012) has about 180 petabytes of data a year and grows by over half a petabyte every 24 hours.[13] • In May 2005, Accel partners invested $12.7 million in Facebook, and Jim Breyer[14] added $1 million of his own money to the pot. A January 2009 Compete.com study ranked Facebook as the most used social networking service by worldwide monthly active users.[15]Entertainment Weekly included the site on its end-of-the-decade "best-of" list, saying, "How on earth did we stalk our exes, remember our co-workers' birthdays, bug our friends, and play a rousing game of Scrabulous before Facebook?"[16] Facebook eventually filed for an initial public offering on February 1, 2012, and was headquartered in Menlo Park, California.[2] Facebook Inc. began selling stock to the public and trading on the NASDAQ on May 18, 2012.[17] • Based on its 2012 income of USD 5.1 Billion, Facebook joined the Fortune 500 list for the first time, being placed at position of 462 on the list published in May 2013.[18]

16. YouTube is a video-sharing website, created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005 and owned by Google since late 2006, on which users can upload, view and share videos.[4] • The company is based in San Bruno, California, and uses Adobe Flash Video and HTML5 technology to display a wide variety of user-generated video content, including movie clips, TV clips, and music videos, as well as amateur content such as video blogging, short original videos, and educational videos. • More than 1 billion unique users visit YouTube each month • Over 6 billion hours of video are watched each month on YouTube – that's almost an hour for every person on Earth, and 50% more than last year • 100 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute • 70% of YouTube traffic comes from outside the US • YouTube is localized in 56 countries and across 61 languages • According to Nielsen, YouTube reaches more US adults aged 18-34 than any cable network

18. There are now 231.7 million active users on Twitter worldwide • 100 million of them log into the service on daily basis • 52.7 Million of these are in the US5,700 tweets are tweeted every second • 3 million websites integrate with Twitter

19. Twitter is an online social networking and microblogging service that enables users to send and read "tweets", which are text messages limited to 140 characters. Twitter Inc. is based in San Francisco and has offices in New York City, Boston, and San Antonio. Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey and by July 2006, the site was launched. The service rapidly gained worldwide popularity, with 500 million registered users in 2012, who posted 340 million tweets per day. The service also handled 1.6 billionsearch queries per day.[11][12][13] According to a study by Sysomos in June 2009, women make up a slightly larger Twitter demographic than men — fifty-three percent over forty-seven percent. It also stated that five percent of users accounted for seventy-five percent of all activity, and that New York City has more Twitter users than other cities.[116] According to Quancast, twenty-seven million people in the US used Twitter as of September 3, 2009. Sixty-three percent of Twitter users are under thirty-five years old] On September 7, 2011, Twitter announced that it has 100 million active users logging in at least once a month and 50 million active users every day.[120] In an article published on January 6, 2012, Twitter was confirmed to be the biggest social media network in Japan, with Facebook following closely in second. comScore confirmed this, stating that Japan is the only country in the world where Twitter leads Facebook.[121]

22. As of November 7, 2013, the following ten individuals and organizations managed the most popular accounts (number of followers in parentheses): Katy Perry (46,779,248) Justin Bieber (46,658,536) Lady Gaga (40,434,804) Barack Obama (39,465,296) Taylor Swift (36,420,115) YouTube (35,933,866) Britney Spears (33,885,632) Rihanna (32,570,351) Justin Timberlake (28,162,984) Shakira (22,709,876)

24. Instagram is an online photo-sharing, video-sharing and social networking service that enables its users to take pictures and videos, apply digital filters to them, and share them on a variety of social networking services, such as Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and Flickr.[5] • A distinctive feature is that it confines photos to a square shape, similar to Kodak Instamatic and Polaroid images, in contrast to the 16:9 aspect ratio now typically used by mobile device cameras. • Users are also able to record and share short videos lasting for up to 15 seconds.[6] • Instagram was created by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger and launched in October 2010. • The service rapidly gained popularity, with over 100 million active users as of April 2012[update].[7][8] Instagram is distributed through the Apple App Store and Google Play.[9] Support was originally available for only the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch; in April 2012, support was added for Androidcamera phones. • The service was acquired by Facebook in April 2012 for approximately $1 billion in cash and stock.[10]

26. Vine is a mobile app owned by Twitter that enables its users to create and post short video clips. • The service was introduced with a maximum clip length of six seconds[1][2][3][4][5] and can be shared or embedded on social networking services such as Twitter (which acquired the app in October 2012) and Facebook.[6][7] • Though Vine was initially available only for iOS devices, Twitter had been working on bringing the app to other platforms; Vine for Android was released on June 3, 2013 for devices with Android version 4.0 or higher.[8][9] The Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8 version of the Vine app was also unveiled during the Microsoft2013 Build Conference.[10]

31. What is Cyber Bullying? Is when someone repeatedly harasses, mistreats, or makes fun of another person online or while using cell phones or other electronic devices. This can occurs via the Internet. Vicious forum posts, name calling in chat rooms, posting fake profiles on web sites, and mean or cruel email messages

32. Forms of Cyber Bullying • A threatening e-mail or written note • Nasty instant messaging session • Repeated notes sent to the cell phone • A website set up to mock others • “Borrowing” someone’s screen name and pretending to be them while posting a message. • Forwarding supposedly private messages, pictures, or video to others. • Sexting

33. Cyberbullying Stats 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. Source: www.cyberbullying.us

37. Power of Words You've heard the saying, “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.” But what happens when someone posts malicious comments about you on the Internet?

38. If you don’t have anything nice to say then don’t say anything at all. Words hurt!!

39. Words Hurt !!!!

40. Distress of Cyberbullying --Cyber bullying messages can be circulated far and wide in aninstant and are usually irreversible; cyber bullying is universal—there is no refuge and harassment can be relentless --Difficulty of escaping from it --Large potential audience (average child on Facebook has 130 friends) --Cyber bullying is often anonymous and can rapidly swell as countless and unknown others join in on “the fun.” **Do not need to use real name , no age verification This trend, known as cyberbullying, can turn into cybermobbing.

41. Impact of Bullying The Bully • Research shows that bullying can be a sign of other serious antisocial or violent behavior. • Children and youth who frequently bully their peers are more likely than others to: • fight vandalize or steal property • drink alcohol smoke • truant drop out of school • carry a weapon

42. Impact of BullyingThe Victim • Difficulty Making Friends • Loneliness • Low Self Esteem • Depression • Poor Academic Achievement • Truancy • Suicide

43. Extent of the problem In a typical 12-month period: •Nearly 14% of American high school students seriously consider suicide •Nearly 11% make plans about how they will end their lives •6.3% actually attempt suicide Suicide is the 3rd leading cause of death among adolescents 12-18 years old. (CDC, 2010) (Bullying, Suicidal Ideation and Suicidal Behavior Among Adolescents SPRC Webinar 2.2.2012 Klomek )

44. Bully Facts and Statistics • Among students, homicide perpetrators were more than twice as likely as homicide victims to have been bullied by peers. • Bullying statistics say revenge is the strongest motivation for school shootings. • 87% of students said shootings are motivated by a desire to “get back at those who have hurt them.” • 86% of students said, “other kids picking on them, making fun of them or bullying them” causes teenagers to turn to lethal violence in the schools. • 61% of students said students shoot others because they have been victims of physical abuse at home. • 54% of students said witnessing physical abuse at home can lead to violence in school. • Harassment and bullying have been linked to 75% of school-shooting incidents.

45. Engage the Bystander –Bullying often takes place in areas hidden from adults (supervision/survey) –Often a disconnect between what youth see and what adults see –Peers are often the first ones aware of bullying (reporting technology) –Encourage the bystander to tell adults about their peers and bullying they have seen (come forward) -Involve youth in preventing both bullying and suicide by the use of research based programs (National Registry of Evidence-based Practices and Programs) http://nrepp.samhsa.gov/ (Bullying Prevention: Best Practices and Opportunities for Integration with Suicide Prevention Efforts February 2, 2012 Bradshaw)

46. Engage the Bystander • Of bullying episodes in which peers intervened, 57% of the interventions were effective (the bullying stopped within 10 sec). • Peers intervene in only 11-19% of all bullying incidents. • Most effective way in reducing bullying • Reporting mechanism/Texting/Home page Button/anonymous

47. Be more than a Bystander

48. Always End on a Positive Note!!!!!!

49. Questions Robert Tricquet Leon County Schools tricquetr@leonschools.net