Cyberbullying and the Bystander - Bullying - Australian Human ...

2501. Knowing how much of an open personality I encapsulate, I do reguarly step in when I see bullying taking place- both cyber and face-to-face bullying (at school orin public). As a child, I had personal experience with bullying and hence I cannot stand seeing someone get bullied. To stop bullying is not an easy thing and itusually does have a side effect on the victim- for this reason I try to listen to both sides of the story and also listen to people which oversaw the situation (moreoverallowing me to reach a fair cconclusion). This leads to the concept that the victim of which we percieve may not be the TRUE victim, but rather guilty in some way(but this is not a generalisation).Through experiences of trying to stop bullying, I have found that saying "oii don't bully" has a negligable effect as the person bullying would commonly answer backwith "WTF...what is it to you...get out of this..I aint bullying"..etc. -this ofcourse is in the real world. When it is through the WWW (World Wide Web), I personally findit to be much less as most of what is said is pointless (people don't really know eachother), but this does not stop people from being offended and reaching a stateof depression. When I do step in over the net, I generally ask the peron being bullied if I can step in- regardless of their answer, I tell them not to answer backbecause making the bully feel like a fool is the strongest weapon we have.2. As a student, I find that many other students enjoy the net more than anything- but there is always an exception to everything- THEY ARE NOT INTERESTEDIN CYBERBULLYING!!! For this very reason I would not use social networks to convey my message, but rather other types of media such as advertisements at thestart of videos (eg. YouTube Videos), leaflets/brochures at schools, Universities, News agencies etc (exhibiting certain examples of cyber bullying and its effect onthe person being bullied -real life examples), a rally in regards to raising the attention to everyone and accompanying all these a website for more information.Another thing I found useful was bringing in a police officer to our school to raise awareness of bullying in all forms it could take- this could be something of which Iwould try to organise (for all schools). Ultimately, I would strive to raise the attention to everyone around the world in any way possible.2512522. I (in association with my schools SRC) have already set up a cyber bullying forum, in which plenty of students attend and parents are invited to come along to.This has been a hugely successful1. In society, there is something called a bystander effect, usually we believe someone else will do something about it. But, if everyone believes that, no one will doanything. Realising this, I don't hold back when I see someone getting hurt, bullied anything. I take action. Usually, a firm, stern, tone and a direct, "hey cut it off,"or "hey, quit it," should make them step back, but if they really don't stop well, just walk away and ignore them conitnuously, and continue doing what you do best,being yourself. This makes the bully think as if you don't care what they say, and no matter they do won't effect you. So they give up.2. Well, through whatever form of communication online, whether facebook, msn, whatever, I would place little dialogues on top of a chatbox or "wallpost," etc, andmake sure it firmly states, "Please refrain from any bullying, or else you may be banned. "253 dont give the bullies any attention and offer support to the vicitim... it needs to be promoted in schools, online and at home with parenting2541. Yes I would, I cannot stand the thought of someone bullying over the internet, too selfish to say it to their faces. I would personally confront the bully and sort outthe problem once and for all. I know turning to an adult would be a smart thing to do but it makes you look like a "wimp" to the bully, which just gives anotherreason for the bully to bully you even more.2. Being confident scares a bully. A bully enjoys a reaction out of their victim, which encourages their insulting behaviour. Confidence gives the victim a uselessreaction to the bully; no reaction = boring, bully will leave them alone. To prevent cyber-bullying I would promote self-confident classes to young teenagers to helpthem deal with these problems themselves, and to cope with bullying in general. Young teenagers are more prone to cyber-bullying, that‟s why I believe confidentclasses can be very helpful and affective to help them cope with our modern society.Page 176 of 197