LIFE SKILLS &VALUE EDUCATION – Class—XII – UNIT – 4  Cyber Bullying

It is a new type of bullying that has become prevalent with the widespread use of the Internet. It occurs when a child or teen uses the internet for emails, text messages, messaging, social media websites, online forums, chat rooms, online gaming other or other digital technology to harass, threaten, or humiliate another child or teen. It can happen 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and has the power to humiliate a kid even when they are safely alone at home. Cyber bullying doesn’t require physical strength face-to-face contact and isn’t limited to just a handful of people at a time. Cyber bullying messages and images can be posted anonymously and distributed quickly to a very wide audience. It can be difficult and sometimes impossible to trace the source. To make matters worse, anything shared on the Internet is almost impossible to delete and can be shared with people across the world in no time.

How a cyber-bully hurts:

• Deliberately excludes someone from an online group.
• Pretends to be you online to send embarrassing or damaging messages that will affect your relationship with others.
• Repeatedly posts or sends offensive, rude, and insulting messages to/about you.
• Spreads lies and rumours about you.
• Posts videos or sends unwanted intimidating messages.
• Engages in online fights, posting scornful or and offensive messages.
• Tricks someone into revealing secrets or embarrassing information, which is then shared online.
• Posts comments that are threatening or imply violent behaviour and/or displaying self-harm tendencies.

What to do if you are being cyber bullied?

Don’t blame yourself – It is not your fault that you are being cyber bullied. You should not let the cyber bully’s words or actions make you feel ashamed of who you are or what you feel. The cyber bully is the one with the problem, not you. So…

• Block the bully
• Save the evidence of cyber bullying
• Report
• Be absolutely inflexible

How to protect yourself from cyber bullying?

• Use computer courtesy
• Think before posting
• Keep personal information private
• Create safe boundaries
• Be an active bystander

Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master

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