Parents should not threaten to ban access to the Internet if bullying occurs. This takes you out of the firing line and enables you to study the bully and collect evidence. Although you may be the target of the bully’s anger, you can train yourself to act as an observer. The provoker watches, waits and stirs the pot.īecome an observer. A provocative comment is made and those who respond in irritation are encouraged to engage in conflict with those who respond assertively. Some cyberbullies 'troll' or play 'the baiting game'. Get help! No one can cope with this alone. Cyberbullies are cowards who often try to hide their identity and behave in nasty ways to build themselves up and to put other people down.Ĭyberbullying is a pathetic act. Recognise that you are not dealing with a person who has the same mindset as yourself. Trying to sort it out with them or asking them to stop won’t work. Accept that bullies don’t think like you do Create a new folder, called ‘Abuse’, and move hate mail and messages into this folder.
Be a responsible user of technologyīe honest with yourself. Your future employers, friends and partners can and probably will, trace your cyber-trail. Use the ‘nana rule’ - if you wouldn’t want your nana to know about it, don’t put it on the web! If you wouldn’t do it in real life, don’t do it online. Online actions have real life consequences. The following guidelines have been compiled from suggestions made by thousands of young people and may be useful to consider or use as a discussion point. Netiquette is about relationships and how people behave, rather than about particular websites or pieces of technology. We need to develop 'netiquette' - standards of behaviour for people online. In fast-paced heated interactions in chat rooms, people who are usually friendly and positive can post nasty and hurtful comments with devastating consequences. As we know, things published online are difficult, if not impossible, to remove.Īlmost two thirds of children have had a negative experience online and 20 percent feel badly about something they have done online. And unlike the real world, there is no forgetting about it. The only problem is that when things go badly online, they go really badly. The strength of online relationships mirrors the best and at times, the worst, of face-to-face relationships. As one young man commented: "I’d rather lose a leg than access to Facebook." On average, young people have 56 online friends.
Online friendships are so important to young people that many of them would endure pain rather than lose access to them.
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Learn how to manage your online relationships and develop good ‘netiquette’ Online interactions are becoming as important as face-to-face ones.
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