Preventing Cyberbullying & Safety from Online Predators

1. Online Responsibility
Preventing Cyberbullying & Safety from Online Predators

2. Bullying vs. Cyberbullying
Bullying
 At school or in public only
 In person
 Smaller audience
 You know the bully
 Small group of participants
Cyberbullying
 Continues at home
 From a distance
 Large audience
 Can be anonymous
 Many participants

3. What is Cyberbullying?
The use of electronic communication to harass, threaten
or intimidate.
Difficult to track and difficult to stop.
Can include threats, insults, racial slurs, LGBTQ shaming,
unauthorized access (hacking), disruption or denial of
service

4. Question
Why do you think
cyberbullying might be worse
than bullying?

5. Electronic Communication
Text Messages
Email
Facebook
Twitter
Instagram
Tumblr
Snapchat
Vine
Kik
Yik Yak
WhatsApp
Omegle
Yo
Wanelo
Ooovoo
Viber
Pheed
Qooh.me
Whisper
Ask.fm
imgur

6. Question
What are some examples of
electronic communication
that you use?

7. Types of Cyberbullying
Flaming
Harassment
Denigration
Impersonation
Outing and
Trickery
Exclusion
Cyberstalking

8. Flaming & Harassment
Flaming online fights with angry and
vulgar language
HARASSMENT repeated offensive, rude or
insulting messages

9. Denigration & Impersonation
Denigrationspreading cruel gossip or
rumors, turning real people into memes
Impersonation “catfishing” or hacking
to pretend to be someone else

10. Outing/Trickery & Exclusion
Outing/Trickerysharing a secret or
tricking someone into sharing a secret
Exclusion intentionally excluding
someone from an online group

11. Cyberstalking
Any repeated online activity that makes
someone feel unsafe. Such as crossing
platforms, contacting from multiple accounts,
circumventing blocks, ignoring requests to
cease communication, etc.

12. Question
Can you give some examples
of the different types of
cyberbullying?

13. Why do we cyberbully?
Attention
Retaliation
Entertainment
Vengeance
Carelessness
Sheeple

14. Question
If you have participated in the
past, what are the reasons you
may have cyberbullied?

15. Impact of Cyberbullying
Lower grades
Poor sleep
Lower quality of life
Troubled relationships
Self medicating
Lashing out
Psychological issues
Suicide

16. Question
How has cyberbullying
impacted your life or the lives
of your friends?

17. What can YOU do?
Teachers and parents aren’t enough.
You are the only one that can make a
difference.
We need one another, we are part of a
community.

18. Target of Cyberbullying
1. Tell them to stop.
2. Ignore, block or delete.
3. Save evidence.
4. Seek support from friends and family.
5. Contact parents, school or police.

19. Witness to Cyberbullying
1. Be courageous
2. Be supportive
3. Be a leader

20. Courage
“In the End, we will remember not the
words of our enemies, but the silence of
our friends.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.

21. Remember
Cyberbullying is a crime, you can go to jail for it.
Suicide is permanent.
School is temporary.
What kind of community do you want to create?
What kind of community do you deserve to live in?

22. Safety from Online Predators
Protect your information
Monitor your friends list
Assume every stranger is not who they claim to be
Confirm communication by voice

23. Protect Your Information
First name only public profiles
Region only public profiles
Avoid unique identifiers public posts
Understand privacy settings
No public posts tied to private information

24. Question
Give some examples of public,
public and private, and private
online communications.

25. Monitor Your Friends List
Never assume you know someone.
Mutual friends aren’t proof.
If you aren’t sure, don’t add.

26. You Can Be Anyone You Want Online
So can they.

27. Confirm Communication by Voice
Hackers can gain access to your friends accounts.
Don’t trust any purely online message for
meetings, appointments, personal information or
important data.

28. Questions
Any questions?