What is Cyber-bullying?
Bullying that occurs over digital devices such as cell phones, laptops, and tablets is cyberbullying. Cyberbullying can occur offline in social media, forums, or gaming where people can watch, participate in, or share content, or online in social media, platforms, or gaming where people can view, participate in, or share content.
Sending, uploading, or spreading unpleasant, harmful, misleading, or nasty content about someone else is cyberbullying. It can involve embarrassment or humiliation caused by sharing confidential or private information about another individual, and Cyberbullying can sometimes cross the line into illegal or criminal action.
Types of Cyber-bullying:
1. Isolation
The purposeful act of leaving someone out is known as exclusion.
This can happen like:
*Your child’s pals are conversing online and tagging other friends, but they aren’t tagging them.
*Because your child does not utilize social networking sites or has a smartphone, they are intentionally excluded from conversations by others.
2. Harassment:
Harassment is a type of bullying that involves regularly sending abusive or threatening texts to your child or a group of children.
This is a particularly hazardous type of cyberbullying, and it may have significant consequences for your child’s health.
3. Outing:
The outing is a purposeful act to publicly humiliate or shame your child or a group by revealing sensitive, private, or embarrassing material online without their consent.
4. Cyber-stalking:
This type of cyberbullying can progress to the cyberbully posing a physical threat to your child’s health and safety. Adults utilizing the Internet to contact and seek to connect with young people for sexual intentions are called cyberstalking.
5. Framing:
Framing occurs when someone enters your social networking account and posts nasty stuff in your child’s name.
6. Fake Profiles:
Fake profiles might be made for someone to mask their true identity to bully your child online.
7. Dissing:
Dissing is the act of sending or posting derogatory information about your child on the Internet to harm their reputation or friendships.
8. Trickery:
Gaining your child’s trust for them to reveal secrets or embarrassing information that the cyberbully then shares publicly online is known as trickery.
9. Trolling:
The act of provoking a response on online forums and social networking sites is referred to as trolling. This is done by using insults or foul language.
10. Catfishing:
Catfishing occurs when someone steals your child’s online identity, such as their photo, social media account, for deceptive purposes.
Joke or bully?
They’ll occasionally laugh it off with a “just kidding” or “don’t take it so seriously” response.
The joke has gone too far. If you are offended or believe that others are laughing, the mark has gone too far. If it persists after you’ve requested the person to stop and you’re still unhappy, it’s possible that you’re being bullied.
When this happens online, it might attract unwelcome attention from a variety of people, including strangers. If you are unhappy with anything, you should not have to put up with it, no matter where it occurs.
Whatever you choose to call it, if you’re having trouble and it’s not going away, it’s time to seek help. Respect is due to everyone, both online and in person.
Most common places where it occurs:
Unlike “conventional” bullying, cyberbullying does not occur only in parks or outside of schools. It takes place in a variety of internet settings and channels, primarily where teenagers congregate. When many youngsters used to hang out in chat rooms, most of the cyberbullying that was reported happened there.
The youth population has been driven to social networking sites like Facebook and video sharing sites like YouTube due to recent technological advances.
As a result, reports of cyberbullying on social networking sites and video-sharing sites have increased. In addition, texting and instant messaging appear to be standard techniques for kids to harass others.
How to stop it?
There are numerous advantages to being online. However, as with many things in life, it comes with hazards that must be mitigated.
If you’ve been the victim of cyberbullying, you might wish to uninstall particular apps or be offline for a bit to recuperate. On the other hand, getting off the Internet is not a long-term answer, and bullies may be encouraged as a result.
One of the reasons reporting cyberbullying is so crucial is that we all want it to end. However, developing the Internet we want entails more than simply condemning bullying. We must be cautious about what we share or say that may cause harm to others. We must be kind to one another both online and in person. It is up to every one of us!
