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.

THE CYBER BULLYING VIRUS

Check out this video!
See if you know of someone or heard of someone that has experienced such events in their lives.
Please don't stay quiet because of fear or threat.
You can potentially save someones life. Act up on it. 

Get help to overcome Cyber bullying

Due to the widespread availability of the internet, access to help
is never far away. If you are being cyber bullied or know someone
who is, do not hesitate to urge them to speak out or talk to someone. 
There are websites which can assist victims of cyber bullying to help
cope or overcome it.

Following is a list of reputed websites which can provide help:

• http://au.reachout.com/Counsellors

• http://www.kidshelp.com.au/teens/get-info/hot-topics/cyber-bullying.php

• http://www.cyberbullyhelp.com/

• http://www.thinkuknow.org.au/site/cyberbullying.asp

• http://www.stopcyberbullying.org/

• http://www.ncpc.org/cyberbullying

• http://www.cyberbullyhotline.com/

• http://humanrights.gov.au/bullying/factsheets/cyberbullying.html

• http://www.girlshealth.gov/bullying/whatis/cyberbully.cfm

Giovanna Plowman

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This case only happened a couple of days ago Giovanna Plowman who is a Florida teenager posted up a video in which she was sucking the menses from her own tampon. This video has gone viral all over the internet in such a short span of time and has attracted much criticism. Such inappropriate criticism can be seen in the above picture in which an internet user has created what is nowadays known as"memes".

This can effectively be seen as a way of cyber-bullying. Giovanna has now become a victim of cyber bullying and stalking. She has been receiving online death threats and other insults. This has led to rumours of her committing suicide (which however is not true). There is even a Facebook page named "R.I.P Giovanna Plowman" (a link to this page is provided below). This case shows how quickly a person's life can turn miserable through cyber bullying. Although the actions of the young girl have disgusted many internet users it is important to note hat such an incident should not be allowed to become a target for crime to occur. All internet users should be mindful of the possible ramifications of cyber bullying.

Giovanna's RIP facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/RIP-Giovanna-Plowman/444436665623958

Now we have looked at some of the cases of cyber-bullying that have occurred. In addition, we have also seen the growth of Cyber-Bullying and the prevention tips you guys can use to avoid it happening to you.

Do you guys really understand the distinct separations between Cyber-bullying and regular bullying?

Lets explore some aspects of both and show the difference.

How are cyber bullying and regular bullying similar and different?

Cyber bullying and regular bullying are similar because they are equally harmful to the victim. Also if an individual is being cyber bullied, chances are they are being bullied at school as well. Another similarity is that just like regular bullying, other people join in cyber bullying as well and it becomes a number of people against one.

The differences are that in cyber bullying, the bully isn't face to face with their victim and so they are even more encouraged to escalate their personal attacks than they would be in person. Also, cyber bullying can be done anonymously whereas regular bullying cannot. That is, cyber bullying can take place in an environment such as a chat room where the bully can remain anonymous but with regular bullying this is not the case. Cyber bullying can start and spread a lot quicker through social networks and the like than regular bullying can. Most importantly, the cyber bully has access to their victim 24 hours of the day while the regular bully can only bully their target during school hours. Lastly, regular bully can cause physical harm to their victim while cyber bullying cannot however the psychological affect is much more severe and long lasting than the physical harm done.

Luke's Story of overcoming cyber bullying

Now lets look at another case that we have come across. Luke's story is an inspirational one. Unlike the case with Ryan Halligan, Luke was able to overcome cyber bullying by learning and applying skills such as:

- resilience
- optimism

The article talks about how Luke could have gone either way, i.e. he could have become depressed, caused himself harm, leave school etc however he was able to learn skills from 'Optimistic Kids' and continued his schooling and attended university.

Luke's university friend was going through the same problems of cyber bullying and Luke was able to help him by passing on the the skills he had learnt himself. 

This shows that cyber bullying could occur in any age group and at any stage of life.

To read the article in more detail please visit:
http://www.parentwellbeing.com/blog/a-boys-real-life-struggle-with-cyber-bullying/

This is the organisation's site from which Luke received help:
http://www.optimistickids.com.au/index.html

How to prevent Cyber-Bullying

Cyber Bullying may take place in different shapes and forms. Therefore, there is not one correct solution to the problem.

Some of the most helpful tips to prevent and put an end to Cyber Bullying include:

1.Seek Help

2.Don't be afraid to Act

3.Don't Retaliate

4.Store evidence

5.Block Communication

6.Bystanders - Act on what you are witnessing

7.Set appropriate privacy settings and be 'web smart'

Growth of Cyber-Bullying

From what we have seen so far, anyone can be a victim of cyber-bullying. Nowadays, it is very important to know the begins of cyber-bulling and the consequences that it can end up with. 
Cyber-bulling is not becoming a narrower isues, but it is widening at an ever-increasing rate. 
We have just put together a few key aspects of Cyber-bullying, hope it provides a greater insight. These include:

• Cyberbullying is being experienced more commonly today than what we know.
• A rise in technology - with 75% of teenagers who have their own mobile phone, School children who are issued l
• As a result 1 in 5 children are being threatened with hateful messages either from their phones or through internet sites like Facebook. Laptops are able to access the internet both at home and at school - increasing the rate of cyberbullying over the years.
• It has been found that cyberbullying has increased by 60% in only the past two years. 
• The rate of cyberbullying being reported in countries such as United States and Canada has risen to 20%, much higher than Australia
• A Lot of teenagers who are being cyberbullied are often not reporting it, because they fear their technology will be confiscated. 
• Thus our rate of cyberbullying actually being reported is much lower and equates to approximately 10%.
• More than half of teenagers refuse to tell their parents they have been cyberbullied.

Have you encountered cyber bullying when working?

Now away from Cyber-bullying, here's some insights onto what cyber bullying can do when experienced at work! Yes cyber-bullying is not only faced by teenagers, it could happen to anyone, anywhere!

Online bullying, also known as cyber bullying, is a new phenomenon of the Internet age, which refers to the people use the Internet to make against individuals or groups, malicious, repeated, hostile injurious behavior, to make others hurt. When mentioned cyber bullying most of the killed objects that comes to mind are children and teenagers. However recently, research institutions from the United Kingdom found that this is not reality. Their survey showed that nearly 80% who have participated in the work of people said that they have experienced cyber bullying.

It is understood that, generally mentioned word when so-called cyber bullying is that who likes who, who do you think is more beautiful, which boss you want to be traded away. For example, former Apple senior executive Scott Forstall is fired by Apple. A lot of people within the company put him compared to the "Very demanding Woman".
The researcher said that cyber bullying just like above is less harmful than reality to the party. The most likely consequences is that people are no longer willing to talk with other people face to face, which is in order to avoid some negative impact on their own work.

Signs of Cyber-bullying 

Don't let cyber-bullying happen to you! 

These are the begins of what Ryan Halligan (from yesterday's case study) experienced in his case of cyber-bullying.

Be aware of some signs of cyber-bullying before they became a bigger problem. 

These include:
• Embarrassing photos
• Harassing calls, texts or emails
• Fake profiles
• People using your Facebook and/or Twitter to say humiliating things

CyberBullying - Story of Ryan Halligan

Here's our First case study we're going to show you guys.
Ryan Patrick Halligan has committed suicide at the age of 13 after being bullied from his classmates in real life and cyber-bullying online.
His father, for nearly 10 years, gives speeches at schools in other states about the story of his son.

What is cyber bullying?

Cyber bullying is any kind of bullying or harassment done using the internet and related technologies. It really sucks because it can be public, hard to take down, and may affect you all the time.

Hello everyone and welcome to this Cyber Bullying blog.

We are a team of five students who aim is to create awareness of the impacts of Cyber-Bullying on individuals and what can be done to prevent these issues. To extend our discussion with everyone, we have started this blog to make readers more informed about its issues.

If you like our initiative please feel free to contribute your views on Cyber-Bullying and do not hesitate to contact us at teamisys100@gmail.com. We will read all emails and respond to them as per appropriate.