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What’s The Deal With Cyber Bullying?

What’s The Deal With Cyber Bullying?. Nyasha Rucker November 15 th , 2008 CIS_1055_010. What is Cyber Bullying?. The use of technology and other communication devices as a way of sending or posting harmful and hurtful information about a person or a group of people.

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What’s The Deal With Cyber Bullying?

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  1. What’s The Deal With Cyber Bullying? Nyasha RuckerNovember 15th, 2008 CIS_1055_010

  2. What is Cyber Bullying? • The use of technology and other communication devices as a way of sending or posting harmful and hurtful information about a person or a group of people. • Cyber Bullying is intended to humiliate and alienate a person. • It is also seen as a deliberate way to facilitate harassment and/or threatening to a specific person or group. • Cyber Bullying is an anonymous way to HATE, indirectly.

  3. What Technologies Are Used To Cyber Bully? • Cell Phones • E-Mails • Online Chat Rooms • Communication Networks/Forums (Facebook, Myspace, etc.) • Instant Messaging Services (AIM, BBM, etc.)

  4. How Does One Actually Cyber Bully? • A Cyber Bully May: • Pretend they are other people online to trick others • Spread lies and rumors about victims • Trick people into revealing personal information • Send or forward mean text messages • Post pictures of victims without their consent

  5. Do You Want To See A Video On Cyber Bullying?

  6. What Can Be Done To Prevent Cyber Bullying? • Parent’s start to supervise their underage teens internet use. • School’s ban cell phone use and the use of communicational websites during school hours. • Adults (Parents and School Faculty) address the issue, right after the first attack. • Mediation between the two parties, before the situation escalates. • Disciplinary action be taken as a consequence for Cyber Bullying.

  7. Why Am I Against Cyber Bullying? • I am against cyber bullying because a lot of my friends have taken part in the act and even have been cyber bullied. • I feel that cyber bullying is immature and childish. • If a person (bully) can only say mean and harmful things online, then they shouldn’t say anything at all.

  8. Q & A

  9. Works Cited • Anonymous. “Delete Cyber Bullying.” Cyberbullying. 2008. 13 November 2008. <http://www.ncpc.org/newsroom/current-campaigns/cyberbullying> • Anonymous. “Internet Safety: How to Protect Your Child from Cyber Bullying.” 13 November 2008. <http://www.scambusters.org/cyberbullying.html> • Anonymous. “Stop Cyber Bullying.” How It Works. 14 November 2008. < http://www.stopcyberbullying.org/what_is_cyberbullying_exactly.html> • Nasiatka, Nicole. “Teen Takes a Stand Against Bullying.” 2008. 14 November 2008.<http://www.ncpc.org/newsroom/current-campaigns/cyberbullying> • National Crime Prevention Council. “Words Really Do Hurt.” YouTube Video. Online video clip. YouTube.com Accessed on 16 November 2008. <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2kFVXDzKFc>

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