Cyber Bullying Presentation

8-18 year olds average
Computer Usage Per Day…
22 minutes social networking
17 minutes play games
11 minutes instant messaging
15 minutes visiting Video web sites (YouTube)
5 minutes Email
4 minutes use graphics programs
1 hour 2 minutes of total recreational use
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8-18 year olds average
Cell Phone Usage Per Day…
� 33 minutes talking
� 1 hour 35 minutes texting
“Text Messaging. In a typical day, 46% of 8- to 18-year-olds report sending text
messages on a cell phone. Those who do text estimate that they send an average
of 118 messages in a typical day. On average, 7th–12 th graders report spending about an
hour and a half (1:35) engaged in sending and receiving texts.
Rules. Relatively few 7th–12th graders say their parents have established any rules about
talking or texting on a cell phone: 27% report that they have rules about the amount
of time they can spend talking on the phone and 14% say they have rules about the
number of texts they are allowed to send.”
Kaiser Family Foundation – 2010
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8-18 year olds average
% Say They Have Rules for Usage of…
Music
Video Games
TV
Computer Use
0 10 20 30 40 50 60
“Overall, 16% of all 8- to 18-year-olds say they don’t have any of the rules about
content or amount of time spent with media asked about in the survey. About one in
four (26%) report having at least some media rules, and also say their parents generally
enforce those rules most of the time. The largest group of young people (39%) report
having some rules regarding their media use, but say those rules aren’t always
enforced.”
Kaiser Family Foundation – 2010
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% of students ages 12–18 who reported being bullied
at school and cyber-bullied: 2007
Unwanted
contact on
internet
Hurtful
information on
Internet
Tota cyber
bullying
0.0 1.0 2.0 3.0 4.0 5.0 6.0
National Center for Educational Statistics – Indicators of School
Crime and Safety (2009)
Female
Male
Total
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Texting - Instant Messenger
Bullying
Girls are the primary offenders and victims.
Girls mature more quickly than do boys.
Girls use the internet as a secondary playground to
socialize.
Along with this socializing, comes bullying
“Outcasts” can be excluded from chat rooms, booted
from private chat rooms.
“Don’t talk to Janie.” “Let’s all go to another area,
Janie you can’t come.”
The Ignore feature….”Iggy Button”
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Cyberbullying
The New Adolescent Aggression
“Being bullied besides over the Internet is worse.
It’s torment and hurts. They say sticks and stones
may break my bones but words will never hurt me.
That quote is a lie and I don’t believe in it. Sticks
and stones may cause nasty cuts but those cuts
and scars will heal. Insultive words hurt and
sometimes takes forever to heal.”
- 14 year-old girl from New Jersey

Cyberbullying
Is the willful and repeated harm
inflicted through the use of computers,
cell phones, and other electronic
devices.

Issues Specific to Cyberbullying

Anonymity and Pseudonymity
� Remain “virtually” anonymous
� Temporary e-mail accounts and pseudonyms in chat
rooms, instant messaging program
� Disinhibition
� Makes it very difficult for adolescents to determine
the identity of their aggressors
� Freed from constraints of behavior

� Lack of Supervision
� Viral Nature
� Text messages can be sent from one electronic
device to a limitless # of recipients in a matter of
seconds
� Limitless Victimization

Mediums Through Which
Cyberbullying Occurs
� E-mail (earliest form of cyberbullying)
� Chat Rooms
� Voting/Rating Web Sites
� Babe vs. Babe
� Pick the Hottie
� Hot or Not

Mediums continued…
� Blogging Sites, Virtual Worlds, and Online Gaming
� WordPress
� Open Diary
� Blogger
� LiveJournal
� frequent updates on their lives, experiences, perspectives, Posts of and interests
� Cell Phones
� Instant Messaging

Common Forms of Cyberbullying
� Photoshopping
� Rumor Spreading
� Flaming and Trolling
� Identity Theft/Impersonation
� Physical Threats

� Angry
Emotional Consequences of
� Females
� Frustrated
� Sad
� Females
� Females
� Embarrassed
� Males
� Scared
� Males
Cyberbullying

Cyberbullicide

Ryan Halligan
December 18, 1989 – October 7, 2003
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Jeffrey Johnston
1990 - 2005
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Megan Meier
November 6, 1992 – October 17, 2006
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Phoebe Nora Mary Prince
November 24, 1994 - January 14, 2010
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Social Networking Web Sites

� MySpace
� 2003 - founded
� Gained popularity among budding musicians who were
looking for a place to promote their music.
� Fans could keep in contact with artists for tour dates, etc.
� As of 2008, 226 million accounts

� Facebook
� 2004
� 64 million active users
� 250,000 new accounts created each day
� Bebo
� 40 million users
� United Kingdom
� Ireland, Canada, and Australia

� Orkut
� Created by Google employees
� 67 million users
� Predominately in Brazil and India
� Friendster
� Over 50 million users
� Asia
� Xanga
� 40 million users
� Multimedia blogging

Preventing Cyberbullying
� Districts should have clear policies on
cyberbullying
� Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) at schools
� Teachers take time to discuss cyberbullying in
their classrooms
� Post guidelines near computer stations
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� Utilize the expertise of students through peer
mentoring
“Parents and teachers can get up and preach, but if they
hear it from another kid, they will remember it.”
- Parent from California
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Parents
� Engage children in a dialogue about the relevant
issues, venture into cyberspace with them
� Formally or informally monitor their electronic
devices
� Internet Use Contract
� Cell Phone Contract
� Communication is the…………..
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Students
� Never give out personal information
� Keep password private. Do not tell other
friends
� Remember that photos, videos, and text cannot
easily be easily deleted.
� Talk to your parents
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Responding to Cyberbullying
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Schools
� Assess the immediate threat
� Ensure the safety of the target
� Demonstrate compassion and empathy to the
target
� Restrain the bully if necessary (separate from
target; closely monitor)
� Investigate and gather evidence
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Schools Continued….
� Contact parents
� Contact Internet service provider
� Enforce disciplinary policy
� Contact police when physical threats are
involved
� Contact legal counsel if considering serious
disciplinary action
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Parents
� Make sure child is and remains safe
� Collect evidence
� Contact school
� Contact the parents of the offender
� Contact the service provider or content provider
� Contact the police when physical threats are
involved
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Parents whose child is the
Cyberbully
� Talk about the hurtful nature of bullying
� Apply reasonable consequences
� Set firm limits and stick to them
� Consider installing tracking software
� Closely monitor computer/cell phone usage
� Convey firmer consequences if the behavior
continues
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Youth
� Document what they see and when
� Don’t encourage the behavior
� Don’t forward hurtful messages
� Don’t laugh at inappropriate jokes
� Don’t condone the act just to fit in
� Don’t silently allow it to continue
� Stand up for the victim
� Tell an adult they trust
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Youth who are Cyberbullied
� Ignore minor teasing or name calling
� Block messages from unknown people
� Don’t respond to the bully
� Keep a log/journal of attacks
� Keep all evidence of bullying
� Talk to an adult they trust
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Thank you for your time
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Christine Laehle, MPH
Program Specialist, OCDE
714-327-1067
claehle@ocde.us
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