More Teens Victimized by Cyber-Bullies
- added November 29, 2007
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- covelogibbs
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The schoolyard bully has gone digital.
As more and more young people have access to computers and cell phones, a new risk to teens is beginning to emerge. Electronic aggression, in the form of threatening text messages and the spread of online rumors on social networking sites, is a growing concern. Researchers estimate that between 9 percent and 34 percent of youth are victims of so-called cyber-bullies. And as many as one out of five teens has bullied another youth using digital media, reports a special issue of the Journal of Adolescent Health.
School districts in Florida, South Carolina, Utah and Oregon have responded by creating new policies to deal with digital bullies. New York City is enforcing rules banning communication devices in school buildings, and Washington state recently passed a law requiring that cyber-bullying be part of school district harassment prevention policies.
As more and more young people have access to computers and cell phones, a new risk to teens is beginning to emerge. Electronic aggression, in the form of threatening text messages and the spread of online rumors on social networking sites, is a growing concern. Researchers estimate that between 9 percent and 34 percent of youth are victims of so-called cyber-bullies. And as many as one out of five teens has bullied another youth using digital media, reports a special issue of the Journal of Adolescent Health.
School districts in Florida, South Carolina, Utah and Oregon have responded by creating new policies to deal with digital bullies. New York City is enforcing rules banning communication devices in school buildings, and Washington state recently passed a law requiring that cyber-bullying be part of school district harassment prevention policies.
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- covelogibbs
- 10 months ago
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This has been in the news quite a lot over the last year, something needs to be done about it. Check the link to read about the pressure on Gordon Brown to curb the amount of violence available to UK children over the internet. -
Not all bullies are on the Playground.
Here's something we can do about it
Deadline: January 11, 2008-
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- covelogibbs
- 10 months ago
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Sadly, one 13 year old was recently bullied into suicide when a former friend's mother pretended to be a boy who liked her and then began to taunt her, insisting nobody liked her. When the child's parents tried to find "Paul" who had first courted their child on line, they discovered he did not exist, and the other child's mother had made up a facebook identity, supposedly to find out what the 13-year-old was saying about her own daughter.
So the additional danger is that anyone can take on a false identity on Facebook just to harass. -
I saw a movie about this on Lifetime.....
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- PaolaHeartsDFA1979
- 10 months ago
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What happened to the good old days? Why can't everyone be nice to each other?
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Actually, a friend of mine was cyber bullied through a website called Encyclopedia Dramatica, where they list articles about people trashing them. I think its an extreme form of cowardice when you have to talk behind someone's back or hide behind anonymity. If you have something to say, you should confront them - positive or negative. If you can't say it to their face, you might as well not say it at all.
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