By:Eric DudziakJames Van Tine& Jenna Dischner

Cyberbullying is the use of e-mail, instant messaging, chat rooms, pagers, cell phones, or other forms of information technology to deliberately harass, threaten, or intimidate someone

Humiliation doesn’t end after onlookers disappear

It is hard for the victim to escape

Can be done anonymouslyCan be done with little effort

Can be carried out repeatedly at any convenient time for the bully

Constant audience

Girls are twice as likely as boys to be bullied and perpetrators of cyberbullying.

35% of teens have been bullied online

56% of cyberbullying happens in chatrooms

FEELINGS AFTER: 34% frustrated 22%sad 30% angry

DO THEY TELL? 41% tell no one 38% tell online friend

AFTER TELLING 19% situation improved

BY PARENTS:

Monitor children online

Know what your children are doing online

Talk to children about how to treat others online and how they should be treated

Make restrictions

BY VICTIMIZED TEENS:

Block communication

Delete before you read a bully’s message

Save and show an adult

Don’t respond to the perpetrator

HIGH SCHOOL MALESBAD NEWS:(14/21 use internet 0-2 hours a

day) 17/21 said their parents

haven’t talked to them about how to treat other online

16/21 said parents NEVER look at what they’re doing online

BUT, 19/21 have a facebook or myspace ?

6/21 said they have received mean or nasty text messages 5 times or more in the last six months, 7/21 said they received them 4 or less times.

GOOD NEWS: 15/21 said in the last 6 months

they have not been in an online fight

16/21 said they have not received threatening online messages

HIGH SCHOOL FEMALESBAD NEWS: 12/24 said they have receeved

mean or nasty text messages at 0-4 times in the last six months.

7/24 said they have received mean or nasty text messages 5 or more times in the last six months

GOOD NEWS: 10/24 girls said that their

parent HAVE talked to them about how to treat others online

10/24 sais there parents occasionally check what they’re doing online

23/24 have a facebook or myspace

21/24 have not received threatening messages online

From the survey it seems that text messaging is probably the most popular form of cyber bullying in our high school.

More people are hurt from text messaging than any other form of information technology according to our survey

This is how cyber bullying works.

Digital harrasment: a picture can be taken with the Victim doing something embarassing. One picture Can be forwarded throughout the school withinMinutes with the technology we have.

Same way with the internet.

SUICIDES TIED TO CYBERBULLYING:

Sarah Butler: 12 yrs old

Megan Meier: 13 yrs old

Ryan Halligan: 13 yrs old

Bibliography

Breguet. Teri. “Bullying and Cyberbullying.” Teen Health and Wellness. Rosen, 2010. Web. 4 Jan. 2010. http://www.teenhealthandwellness.com/article/76/bullying-and-cyberbullying.

http://www.dosomething.orghttp://Safety.lovetoknow.com