One-third of U.S. teens are victims of cyber bullying !!!!

This is a title in Tehran time newspaper on which was published at the morning . It shows that in each three teenagers one of them experienced cyber bullying and it is a horrible statistic. This cases can be threatening or sexual harassment , defamation and other types of bullying which has been discussed in the previous blogs, but there is two important unanswered questions :
1. What happened to this people , I mean the people who was getting bullied???
2. How many teenagers getting bullied and didn't tell anyone?

In my point of view , damages of cyber bullying get more serious when the victim keep it as a secret. In this situation there is a probability of commuting suicide or other things. Families , governments and police should be trusted for the teenagers as much as if the victim did something wrong , he/she can refer to one of them.
There is many cases of blackmailing that the victim can't go to the police and of course blackmailer taking advantage of the situation........

Limitation or Education????!!!!

I think "education or limitation" is one of the most serious challenges in every family , society and even country. Some countries like IRAN choose to limit people instead of educate people and some other countries like United states choose freedom with education and finally some countries like Malaysia choose limited limitation with education.
Of course each of these choices have advantages and disadvantages. For an instant limitation , in short run, can reduce the side effects of technology like cyber bullying but education will show its substantial results in the long run , but it has it's victims......
parents can make limitations for their children in internet usage or they can teach them how to use it, All in all this issue is a major problem in all levels from governments to families......
please leave your opinion as a comment..............

Some notes for parents.....

According to the past discussions , parents play an important role in preventing damages come from cyber bullying cases in their children. Here is some useful notes for parents who want to control and supervise their children activity in the cyber space :
1. Centralize the computer :
Assign a particular room for the computer and internet which you and your children use mutually. It will help you to have a insensible control on your children activities while working in the same room.


2.Consistent communication :
Discuss different issues with you children. Let them talk to you and express their problems. Assure them that there is no punishment when they express they faults with you.


3.Online experience and knowledge : 
It is necessary for the parents to be up to date an have knowledge and experience about computer issues. If you don't have knowledge , its not late , start today ;) .


4.Blogging, Chatrooms and social network sites : 
 Chat with your children , send them a funny email , create a facebook account and make them feel you in the cyber space. It will make them closer to you.


By using these advices , parents and children make a close relationship in the cyber space and it will make you the first one who get informed about the online problems like Cyber bullying....






Source : http://www.cyberbullyalert.com/blog/

Cyberbullying , Prevent or Cure ?

Recently i've read an article with this title :"Officer offers tips in avoiding cyberbullying" , It is an interesting article which is provided by www.signonsandiego.com . This police officer explains different ways for parents to deal with cyberbullying cases , but the point is that it is mentioned that there is no way to prevent cyebrbullying and all we can do as parents is to deal with it after it happens. 
In my point of view there is still some substantial ways to prevent cyberbullying for families and also government. The first step is to increase the degree of awareness of public about the consequences and punishments of the cyberbullying . When cyberbullying create cases like suicide for teenagers , the related punishments should be hard and harsh. 
The other point is that people should know there is nothing like anonymity in the cyberspace. When people know that if the will be detected and punished if they do something wrong in the cyber space , I think the number of cyber bullying cases will decrease in the long-run.
By the way this article has some useful tips and notes for parents........
you can read this article through this link :
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/nov/05/officer-offers-tips-in-avoiding-cyberbullying/

Written communication and cyber bullying....

After studying different cases of cyber bullying I asked this question from myself : "Why people do this? How they dare to insult each other like this? Why the cyber bullying cases become more important than traditional bullying???". 

I think a reason can be the nature of the written communication. When you send a message or write an email, you can insult or threat the receiver easily because you wont receive back the answer immediately. Imagine you want to tell your friend that you hate him face to face , you will think that what he will do after that. Cry?? , Slap you?? whatever it is , you prefer to send him a SMS or email to avoid the immediate feedback.

Another reason that people think that they have the anonymity advantage in the cyber space. In many cases offenders didn't estimate that they will be caught. So this idea help them to the things that they wont do in the real world......

I do believe that the only way to prevent cyber bullying is education. People should know that the consequences and conditions of doing the wrong things in the cyber space is same an even more than the real world...

How the law addresses cyber bullying

In this note , I'm going to explain the different aspects of cyber bullying and discuss the related law issues.Cyber bullying can be studied under the civil law and criminal law.
1. Civil law :
1.1 Defamation : If cyber bulling causes damaging reputation of a person it would be consider as defamation case. Temporarily damages called slander and the permanent defamation called libel. There is two probable defenses for the person who is accused of libel . The first one is that he can say that his statement was true. The second one is he can say that he just innocently reproduced the statement.


1.2 Creating unsafe environment : For example schools are responsible to provide a safe place for students. If any student threat his or her classmates and make an unsafe environment , school authorities should take any action to make the school a safe place.


2 Criminal law :
2.1 Harassment : It happens when what you said frighten someone else.There is no matter that a person has intention or not . He/she will charged for harassment.
2.2 Defamatory libel :Defamatory libel is punishable by up to five years in prison.




Reference : 
http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/resources/educational/teaching_backgrounders/cyberbullying/cyberbullying_law2_h4.cfm

Different forms of cyberbullying

As it has mentioned in previous blogs , cyberbullying has different types and approaches , what is important is that they must occur in the cyber space. In this article i'm going to define and discuss different types of Cyberbullying.


Harassment :
   When someone repeatedly send insulting and nasty messages to others.


Uploading :
    If you share a picture of your friends , classmates or other people , particularly in an embarrassing situation, without permission.
It also include sharing emails and personal notes without permission.


Targeting :
   Encouraging other people to attack a particular person.


Insulting :
   Distracting someone's reputation by posting spreading false information.


Identity theft :
    Introduce yourself as someone else and communicating under someone else identity.


Excluding :
   Pressuring people to exclude someone from a particular community.


These are all defined types of cyberbullying , in the FutureI will explain how criminal and civil law address different types of cyber bullying.......








Reference :
http://www.mediaawareness.ca/english/resources/educational/teaching_backgrounders/cyberbullying/cyberbullying_law2_h4.cfm