TEENS DEATH HIGHLIGHT CYBER BULLYING TREND

Teens death highlight cyber bullying trend
 

A Melbourne mother has blamed her 14-year-old daughter's suicide on the internet and the tragic case has highlighted the problem of cyber bullying among young people.

In Australia, study shows that 10 per cent of teenagers and children have experienced some form of sustained bullying using technology.Cyber bullying has very tragic consequences. Mother Karen Rae says,

"Friday night she was on the internet and told me about some message that had come through, and she wanted to die because of the message."

"I laid in bed with her in my bed and we discussed it for about an hour and she left me fairly happy. I can guarantee you if she didn't go on the internet Friday night she'd be alive today."
The girls death has bought pain to her family. Her parents are devastrated and wants proper laws against cyber bullying.

Dealing with Cyberbullying

Nowadays, bullying is no longer limited to schoolyards or street corners. This means, cyberbullying can occur anywhere, even at home through email, texts, cellphones and social media websites 24 hours a day, seven days a week like facebook with potentially hundreds of people involved. The effects can be devastating, leaving you felling hurt, angry, depressed or even suicide. There are some tips to prevent and deal with the growing problem of cyberbullying
Firstly, savingf the evidence of the cyberbullying, keep abusive text messages or a screenshot of a website. Secondly, reporting threats of harm and inappropriate sexual messages to the police. Thirdly, Being relentless, cyberbullying is rarely limited to one or two incidents. Lastly, preventing communication from the cyberbully. by blocking their e-mail address, cell phone number, and deleting them from social media contacts.
To sum up, obviously, cyberbullying should be stopped through these tips. These tips are very helpful for parents and teachers to stop cyberbullying because kids are often to tell parents or teachers about cyberbullying.

http://www.helpguide.org/mental/cyber-bullying.htm

-Seon Yong Kim-

Australian Bullying Law

Legal frameworks regarding bullying are diverse. The federal nature of law in Australia means that recognition of bullying varies from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. Targets of bullying accordingly rely on a range of statute and common law in dealing with the problem. It is important to have a mechanism for ensuring that organisations are aware that bullying in the workplace or schools is unacceptable.

Remedies

Legal remedies in Australia have included action under -

• Anti-Discrimination Legislation
• Common Law (eg for physical and/or psychological injury)
• Constructive Dismissal aspect of Industrial Relations Law
• Occupational Health & Safety Law
• Workers Compensation schemes
• Criminal Law
  

Those remedies reflect expectations about individual responsibilities and restrictions on things such as assault and workplace discrimination. Sodomising a cadet as part of military hazing, setting fire to an apprentice as part of workplace initiation or leaving pork chops in a Muslim colleague's locker is frowned on; physical injury may be rewarded by criminal sanctions against the perpetrator. The bullying that occurs among university academics and in the professions may simply go unreported and be accepted as appropriate industrial discipline aka professional practice.



Traditional bullying vs Cyberbullying

Since the boom of technology in the past decade or so, there is an interesting, and sometimes devastating new relationship between technology and bullying. It is very different between cyberbullying and traditional bullying because people can use the disguise of anonymity to harass thier victims in online, so it is very easy set up face accounts and bully as anonymously.
Because anonymous comments and actions aren’t connected to the individuals doing the bullying, they are free to do as they please without repercussions.Similarly, people choose to target victims who live far away.Bullying can also occur when people send messages or posting that do not give the name of a person but contain sufficient information for readers to figure out who the post is intended for that
are posted to social networking sites like facebook.

In conclusion, cyberbullying is more danger than traditional danger because cyberbullies on the internet can now hide behind their computer screens and false identities so more harmful and unlike traditional playground bullying, cyberbullying can be done at any time, from any location, and possibly worst of all, can be completely anonymous. 

Post by Seonyong Kim

https://sites.google.com/site/cyberbullyingawareness/traditional-bullying-vs-cyberbullying 

Punishment for cyber bully's!

Hey this is Leep8033 and within this post i want to address the punishments of cyber bullying, so those of you who are secretly cyber bully's, this is aimed at you!

As we all know, cyber bullying is a product of the new technology that has come, and it is not always a good thing that it brings. Bullying from the playground has taken another level to the online world being much more severe and consequential. Just like how bullying is inappropriate on the playground and just like how there are punishment for bully's, there are punishments for cyber bully's and protection for the victims as well.
Because cyber bullying can cause much more harm on online rather than physically, action has to be taken against the people who cyber bully. Now there are no actual laws that states anything against cyber bully's but because some cases become very severe, lawsuits and prosecutors are using methods to convict cyber bully's for their deeds. 
It is commonly known that criminal harassment has been a basis for cyber bullying to start off with and also that in severe cases where the victims may be on the line of suicide or have committed suicide, can have the cyber bully's be criminally charged. 
For the punishments of cyber bullying, it depends on the country/state that you are within, but they can range from being suspensions/expulsions from schools (if you are a student), also you can be punished with jail time for criminal misdemeanors and even felonies. Not to mention you can be fined and also serve juvenile detention for young criminals.
As of yet, cyber bullying is rapidly growing just like the online environment so governments and the law are now taking attention to the online threats that are being posed by cyber bully's, creating policies and regulations that protect you online. And the growing of punishments are growing as well to protect people and to punish those who commit such an offense.

So to the people who are cyber bully's, be prepared for your days are limited and you are BOUND to get caught!! 

Also here is a quick intro to what cyber bullying is! please have a look :)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNumIY9D7uY  
-p-  

LAW ENFORCEMENT VIEWS OF CYBERBULLYING AND SEXTING

"LAW ENFORCEMENT VIEWS OF CYBERBULLYING AND SEXTING"

It is a study based on cyberbulling and sexting. 979 officers were surveyed, to know what they thought about the high-tech teen problems and to see if there were any differences in perceived roles when comparing SROs with traditional police officers.

The vast majority of the SROs (94%) agreed or strongly agreed that cyberbullying is a serious problem warranting the response of law enforcement. Similarly, 93% agreed or strongly agreed that sexting is a serious concern for law enforcement. As far as experience, 78% of the SROs reported that they had investigated an average of 16 cyberbullying cases during the previous school year and 67% of the SROs reported that they had personally investigated a sexting incident in the previous year (average=5 incidents).

Like the SROs, the majority of the traditional police officers (82%) agreed or strongly agreed that cyberbullying as a serious problem warranting the response of law enforcement. Seventy-eight percent agreed or strongly agreed that sexting is a serious concern for law enforcement. Relatively few of the traditional officers had experience investigating cyberbullying and sexting cases. Ten percent reported investigating an average of 2 cyberbullying cases during the previous school year and 7% reported that they had personally investigated a sexting incident in the previous year.

 In all cases the SROs rated the law enforcement role significantly higher than the traditional law enforcement officers.  Clearly, the officers who work in the schools, who most directly confront these problems, see themselves has having a greater responsibility in dealing with the cases than the officers who do not regularly work in schools.

Post by Shifa.

An empirical trial to reduce cyber-bullying in adolescents

Hi, this is an article that title is An empirical trial to reduce cyber-bullying in adolescents. There are many different kinds of bullying in our society. Among them, cyberbullying has become a big issue nowadays. Cyber-bullying is a covert bullying and it is psychologically damaging form used primarily by adolescents to injure harm on others through electronic and digital media, such as: emails, chat-rooms, mobile phones, websites, web-cams. According to international research states that the breaking out of cyber bullying is rising. Cyberbullying is spreading quickly as high as 30% adolescents. Approximately 7% of year 4 - 9 students are bullied every per weeks of more often. Social anxiety and lower self esteem is caused from cyber bullying. There are some objectives in articles.

To sum up, obviously, cyberbullying is the biggest influence for adolescents because young people always use digital media more than old people so they can access to cyber something easily... For this reason, should tell that cyberbullying is very bad seriously and should be stopped to prevent cyberbullying

http://www.chprc.ecu.edu.au/projects/past-projects/chprc/an-empirical-trial-to-reduce-cyber-bullying-in-adolescents

Seonyong Kim

Website claims suicide teen sent abuse posts to herself

Hi, in this article is different history with the previous articles. The previous articles were talked more about many teenagers or young people on social networking bullied and many of them become victims from people who they don’t recognise.  Everyone may aware of fake people and knowing the types of intimidation they using to intimidate through online services. However, in this article is very sad news for her and as well as for her family.

The incident just two weeks ago, took place in Leicestershire, United Kingdom.  A Britain girl named, Hannah Smith, 14 years old kill her self after being bullied online. Smith was found hanged on Friday, her father immediately try to write on the Facebook that he found bullying posts on his daughter’s ask.fm page from people telling her to die.  It is also argued that the ask.fm website still on controversial social network.

However, according to London Sunday Times cited in au.yahoo.com look into the ask.fm website that the profiles of the senders and messages are from her computer only. Moreover, the IP addresses are also belongs to herself. With type of this incident, police also have all the report and is still under investigation. In addition to her death, predicted that there are several abuse messages comes from her computer and it has not been report yet from cyber bullying toward her.   

It is also remind to all of us, when we are on social network. If we do not aware the risk of social network and utilise wrongly we become victim. Be aware and always put your self more attention.

http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/world/18461727/website-claims-suicide-teen-sent-abuse-posts-to-herself/

Post by Castro.

Don’t Ignore and Don’t Accept – Bullying

When people use social network they should aware of the advantages and disadvantages. It use of connect to friends and read update information. Therefore, people should about accept something is give benefit but be awre of something is going to harm you. Some tips of pictures are attached for us to know it.

                       

A data from National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) 2011 showed that Junior High Schools bullied about 19% whereas the High School at 18% which they received several messages such as daily or weekly either at school or outside of school.  This report was done by bullying organisation such as I SAFE and the Cyber bullying Research Center. The report identified that which most teenagers got bullied in the highest numbers.

 

The types of technology bullying such as harassment, threaten, embarrass, or target from another person on the Web or cell phone. Bullies act from behind of the computer and did not appear their identity. Bullies acts very dangerous because they tend to do harm to the victim by intimidation through instants messages or send some video clip to make it fear.

Source: http://www.learnersonline.com/learners-online/dont-ignore-and-dont-accept-bullying/

Post by Castro.

What parents can do to stop cyberbullying

In the present day, information communication technology becomes popular for people to communicate. Those information technologies systems such as Facebook, Twitter, or mobile instant message to connecting each other. Although with more advance of technology and people become closer there are still disadvantages of using it. In this article, it’s described that some young people were becomes victims by bulling, how behaviour of bullying and some awareness for parents to stop their children bullying.

Cyberbullying expert Alexis Moore says that parents should intervene when their children become victims of cyberbullying. (Miodrag Gajic/iStock)

                                                     U.S. cyber bullying case6:29                         

                                                        Cyber bullying using with Myspace

People are on the social networking is worrying about the security. When people have basic acknowledge of information technology are better than those people who an illiterate. For example, a 15 year old girl from Port Coguitlam, B.C kills herself. That was happened on 10 October 20123. Another example, a student from Rutgers University in New Jersey jumped from a bridge. This incident was occurred two years ago. In 2008, a Missouri teenager hanged herself weeks before her 14th birthday after being the target of a hoax on MySpace.

     These kinds of incidents are an intimidation or bully by Cyber bullying to do harm to other people.
It is tends to fear or over control of other people’s life behind computer.

Lastly, children may be affected by bullying and choose not to speak out. The parent’s obligated to be able to communicate frequently with their children concern their social life special when it comes to bullying.

In conclusion, cyber bullying has been important issue especially in recent times due to the impact of technology. Therefore it is a important issues for both children and parents to deal with cyber bullying through communication between children and parents and for parents for monitor the children when their using social networking.

Source:
 http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2012/10/12/cyberbullying-strategies-parents-q-a.html

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Posted by: Castro

Why do people cyberbully? Here's just a few reasons why..

Hello once again, this is Leep8033 and this post is going to be about why people cyberbully others in the first place. Everyone knows the outcomes and everyone hears about the story of the victim but it's hardly ever brought to light that why people cyberbully in the first place. So i want to give a quick overview on the reasons why people would ever do such a thing.

There are a few reasons that really come off as the big ones that show why people bully others and there has been research done to support the arguments to be stated. So first of all, a bully who uses face-to-face bullying is more likely to be an online bully as well, this is due to because of their need and want to feel more powerful, popular and better than the victim. The people who bully are likely less to feel guilty after they cyber bully people because of how they are behind a screen hurting people rather than doing it physically face-to-face. 
Another factor is that, people who are cyberbullys tend to have been bullied themselves thus they bully others to hide their insecurities and to feel better by hurting people who they consider lower than themselves. One large reason is that the people who bully others are usually influenced by peers or family and that could cause the person to become a bully physically or online.
Cyberbullying can be amusing for some people thus they start out as something that can entertain them if they have nothing to do and time on their hands. But usually it is because the cyberbully would have something against the victim may it be a grudge or even just out of jealousy. The cyberbullys also don't consider their actions being hurtful or a big deal, they think that there are no consequences with what they are doing, thus their lack of empathy and they also think they are anonymous as it is online and not face-to-face.

None of these reason's can and never will justify why bullying is okay for any form being from physical,mentally and emotionally. Bullying causes many and much harm to the victims and should be stopped early. It should always come down to the fact that the bully has something wrong with them thinking it is okay to hurt other people. 
Thanks for reading! 
-p-  

Cyber bullying on students

Hey guys this is Leep8033 and this post is going to be about how the internet has brought about cyber bullying and isn't that user friendly as you may believe. So cyber bullying is not your normal playground bully. Cyber bullying is mainly done through technology but mostly over the internet. It is when a person (cyber bully) intentionally causes mental and emotional harm to the victim and this is what cyber bullying is essentially about. I want to bring the attention of cyberbullying on school children where it is that age group, cyberbullying has the most impact on. 

Cyberbullying isn't a small thing and should be taken very seriously as it can have very large impacts on individual lives in many different aspects. 

There are many affects of cyber bullying and i want to simply state them so i can spread the awareness of what cyberbullying can potentially do:

Victims have a higher risk of anxiety and depression that can possibly lead to adulthood. these also include factors such as increased feelings of sadness and loneliness, physical changing of habits such as eating and sleeping pattern and also loss of interest in daily activities.

Also one of the very dangerous symptoms include suicide, which is a huge problem as it has been making the headlines of news within the recent times. In studies, it was shown that within adulthood, the adult who was bullied had the thoughts of suicide that the average person.

For students, many kids who get cyberbullied tend to hide this from their friends, peers and adults. And because they are in such a delicate stage in their age, they are more sensitive to their emotions and can have drastic impacts on their lives.

Grades could drop, children could become inverted and shy away from social gatherings. They find that everything is bleak and have a more negative look on life. Cyberbullying also leads to self-harm where the victim would physically harm themselves to escape their emotional pain. students would skip or drop out of school more regularly and also would lower their self-esteem making them pursue other reliefs from reality such as drugs and alcohol.

All in all, cyber-bullying can cause major impacts on children especially when it starts out at such a young age where it can have more serious affects in the long run. There should be no excuse for cyberbullying EVER. No one deserves what they recieve, just think what it would be like if YOU were in THEIR shoes. Please spread the awareness and stop cyberbullying among young students!
-Peter-