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BULLYING
IS DELIBERATE, REPEATED HURTFUL BEHAVIOUR
If you see it don’t support it!
RECOGNISE IT, REJECT IT, REPORT IT!
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Bullying behaviour is no longer restricted to the
school yard.
It can be by phone or online and out of sight and earshot of both teachers and parents.
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Your home should be a safe place where you can be
away from bullying and harassment . . .
. . . but Cyber Bullying by phone and online can affect you even when you are at home . . .
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Being cruel, leaving in circulation material hurtful to others or
about others using technological
meansCyber Bullying is repeatedly using computers, mobile phones, smart phones or any other technology to cause hurt or embarrassment to another person
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Cyber Bullies may:• Spread lies about students
• Spread rumours about students
• Circulate pictures without consent
• Circulate altered pictures without consent
• Trick people into revealing personal information
• Circulate personal information about someone without consent
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• “Flaming”: Online fights using electronic messages with angry and vulgar language
• “Harassment”: Repeatedly sending offensive, rude, and insulting messages
• “Cyber Stalking”: Repeatedly sending messages that include threats of harm or are highly intimidating or engaging in other on-line activities that make a person afraid for his or her own safety
• “Denigration”: ‘Dissing’ someone online. Sending or posting cruel gossip or rumors about a person to damage his or her reputation or friendships
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• “Impersonation”: Pretending to be someone else and sending or posting material online that makes someone look bad, gets her/him in trouble or danger, or damages her/his reputation or friendships
• “Outing and Trickery”: Tricking someone into revealing secret or embarrassing information which is then shared online
• “Exclusion”: Intentionally excluding someone from an on-line group, like a ‘buddy list’
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Mobile/smart phones
Text messages
Instant messaging / MSN
Social networking sites
Chat rooms
These can be like well-designed playgrounds . . . at night . . . with no adults . . . and with a few troublemakers hanging around
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People who Cyber Bully:• May pretend it’s “a joke”• May think it’s “no big deal”• May be encouraged by friends • May pretend everybody does it• May not think about consequences• Think they won’t or can’t get
caught
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If so, as you will see . . . they should definitely If so, as you will see . . . they should definitely think again!think again!
“But we were just slagging!”
“We didn't mean it!”
(Cyber)-Bullying is …• Unwanted
• Repeated over time
• A power imbalance
• Victim feels socially excluded
• A threat
• Deliberate
• Used to upset people
Slagging is …• When the student targeted
is in on the joke• When student targeted also
laughs• When it ends quickly• When all are on the same
level• When there is no
discrimination• When there is no fear or
threat• Any hurt or upset is
accidental
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One of the most worrying
aspects of Cyber Bullying is that . . .
. . . You can’t see who is doing it so you think
you don’t know who it is.
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But as we will see . . . you can find out . . .
Research shows that those who Cyber Bully are usually the same people who bully people directly . . .so you may know who they are . . .But to prove it you will need evidence . . . and cyber-bullies leave lots of electronic “fingerprints.”So, to outsmart them . . .
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don’t be angry . . . be clever!
A victim of Cyber Bullying by phone should:• Never reply to bullying or harassment by phone
• Put yourself in control - store the messages as evidence
• Block the sender - phone networks allow you to do this
• Tell someone you trust that the bullying is going on
• If Cyber Bullying continues, report the problem to parents/teachers and depending on severity, the Gardaí.
• Even if the sender’s number is hidden the exact time and date are attached to messages and enable the Gardaí to check with the service provider and trace the sender of the message
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A victim of Cyber Bullying online should:• Never reply to online bullying or harassment even if tempted • Put yourself in control - store and print out messages and
keep them as evidence, noting exact time and date if possible • Block communication with the Cyber Bullying person: (a) by email, by adding her/him to your “blocked list” and (b) on social networking sites (e.g. Facebook) by (i) reporting it to the site administrators (ask a
friend/adult to do so too) - giving details of why it is so harmful/hurtful and
(ii) changing your privacy settings to exclude her/him • If Cyber Bullying continues, report the problem to
parents/teachers and depending on severity, the Gardaí.
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Useful rules to live by: • If you wouldn’t say it in person . . .
don’t say it in a message
• Before you send a message remember . . . everything that is sent is traceable
- even if you send it anonymously
• If it is nasty, if it is mean . . . don’t send it, don’t forward it, don’t let it be seen
• Ask your friends to help, to . . . Adapted with kind permission of Caroline O’Doherty, Loreto, Beaufort
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