Our Cyberbullying Video

Our team has created a video of a common example of cyber bullying.

It is a short film but we have spent time and effort on it.

Hope this will provide a meaningful insights to how cyber-bullying can be elevated.

Cyberbully (film)

Cyberbully is a television film that premiered on July 17, 2011 on ABC Family. ABC Family worked with Seventeen magazine to make the film, and hopes it will "delete digital drama". The film tells the story of a teenage girl who is bullied online. The film was released on DVD February 7, 2012. (source from Wikipedia).

The film effectively highlights the terror and the pain caused by cyber bullying.
It stays in viewers heart the encouragement and the inspiring drama the film gives out.

Must Watch!

Cyber-bullying Happened to Adult

Article news from ctvnews:

• http://ottawa.ctvnews.ca/restaurant-owner-to-be-sentenced-in-libel-case-1.1030532
• http://ottawa.ctvnews.ca/victim-hopes-jailed-cyberbully-will-be-an-example-for-others-1.1041332

A victim as restaurant reviewer being cyberbullied by an owner of a restaurant after the victim had posted negative reviews of the restaurant on website. The cyberbully, Marisol Simoes pretend to be the victim, Elayna Katz and send sexually explicit emails to Katz boss. Simoes got Katz boss email from Katz business card. As result, Katz called police for help and Simoes sentenced to jail.

In this incident, Katz did the right decision even though she is an adult and people might think adults had more rational thought than teenager or younger kids but there are adult faced this kind of problem and still doesn't know how to deal with it. I wanted to show this news so people, no matter that you are teenager or adult can learn from it. After all, "Cyberbullying does not just affect teenagers, it affects all of us." Katz said...

What Causes Teens to Become Cyber Bullies?

Reasons:

• Lack of parental supervision engaged
• Drug and alcohol use
• Family conflict

In my opinion, families nowadays often use technology as a source of communication and their children getting use to it. Children at the very young age(we are talking about kids between age 12 -16) this day have more freedom to access the virtual world and they considered as partially raise by internet. The way they think of what is right and wrong would probably influence by the internet. The temptation of causing someone pain is sunk into their mindset and they start to think of it as funny and entertaining. The level of maturity at the young age causes them to fail the understand the degree of emotional pain that they can cause to other people. Even they grow up they get use to what they do to the people, they still fail to realised the problem. 

Website reference:

• http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/teens-cyber-bullying-risk-factors-1025123

Cyber bullying - don't blame the web

article from:

• http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/6924422.stm

Some highlights from this article that worth to mention are social networks are not the source of encouraging people to cyberbullying. If society want to shutdown the social network because of the cyberbullying then what about the school where student bullying?

In the article, it mention that

"Through this technology, so many young people, ripe for bullying at school, have found a community they can call their own and have benefited so powerfully to become emotionally resilient young people with renewed self confidence and greater life chances," says Ms Cross.

A kid, Nathan was bullied in school. At that time Nathan lost his confidence and later on he posted a blog about his experiences and people that had similar issue like him shared their experience to him too. Thus make a power bonding to them. Nathan felt relieved and confident once again. Nathan also added that most kid don't have the courage to speak up face to face whereas internet provide ideal place for them.

The article also mention that "Sadly with any form of communication there is a tiny minority of people who try to break the rules". "Addressing the bad behaviour at the root of the problem is crucial to solving the web bullying problem," as Children's minister Kevin Brennan stated.

In the article, I learned that web is also our source to counter-act the cyberbullying and this is why we making this blog.

Cyber-bullying in the future

Technological advancements are rapid and it won't be long till we see new forms of cyber bullying. 
Will there be a greater increase in cyber-bullying through virtual worlds like Second Life, where there are few rules, little adult supervision, and opportunity for a resultant deterioration in social relationships?
What do you guys think? 

As stated by The Be Web Aware project,
Multiplayer online games and virtual worlds can be venues for harassment and cyberbullying when kids are playing or using the chat features to talk to other players. According to a 2008 Pew Internet & American Life Project report, more than half of teens who play games report seeing or hearing “people being mean and overly aggressive while playing”; a quarter of them report that this happens “often.”

I believe this is true. I personally have experienced many occasions in which users over virtual worlds in mutliplayer games have forcefully asked me to perform certain tasks.
Has this ever happened to you. Feel free to contribute to the discussion below or contact on our email.

Please have a look at the attached video below for more insights to Cyberbullying And Virtual World Issues. 

Is the Giovanna Plowman video a hoax?

This is the true question..

We mentioned what Giovanna had done a few days ago. Due to this issues, people have been taking advantage of her acts and miss using it. 

Have a look at:

http://www.cybergamer.com.au/forums/thread/456434/100k-likes-and-Ill-show-Giovanna-Plowmans-parents-her-video/

This is ridiculous. The user of this account is obviously seeking attention for his benefit. What do you guys think about this? Message us about your thought on teamisys100@gmail.com

Look forward to hearing your views.