presented to East Harlem Tutorial Program

1. cyberbullying
latressa m. fulton, mph
East Harlem Tutorial Program
May 31, 2011

2. Introduction
● Latressa Fulton, MPH
○ seminars in health and awareness
○ completed various training in social media and marketing
○ social media for various organizations including:
● H.E.A.L.T.H for Youths, Inc was formed for the charitable and
educational purposes of assisting at-risk youth; combating community
deterioration and juvenile delinquency; and improving the quality of
education, health care and life-skills training offered to underserved
adolescents and young adults.
○ Health
○ Education
○ Academic
○ Life Skills
○ Training
○ Help

3. Quick and Dirty Overview of Today
● Cyberbullying
● What it looks like
○ overview of social media tools used
● Consequences of Cyberbullying
○ emotional distress
● What parents could do about Cyberbullying

4. Electronic Aggression or CyberBullying
● What's a Bully?
● What's a CyberBully?
● What does a CyberBully do?
○ mean messages
○ private information
○ pretending to be someone else
○ exclude individuals from groups
● How often is this happening?
● Where are the different ways kids tend to bully each other
on the internet?

5. Mean places and spaces
● Emails
● Instant messaging
● Text or digital imaging messages sent on cell phones
● Social networking sites (Facebook, Twitter, Myspace)
● Web pages
● Blogs
● Chat rooms or discussion groups

6. ● Social networking site (2004)
● 600 million users (as of January 2011)
● platform to add other users as friends, tell personal
information about yourself
● FREE

8. ● Social networking site (july 2006)
● users send and read messages called tweets
● text based limited to 140 characters
● approximately 200 million users

9. http://twitter.com/#!/nickiminaj

10. example
http://twitter.com/#!/nickiminaj

11. What can you do?
Prevent It Dealing with it
● agreement ● tell your child not to respond
● confine internet activity to a ● try to identify the individual who
public space is doing the cyberbullying
● bullying is unacceptable ● block future contact
behavior ● if the cyberbully is in their
● filter software/monitoring school, notify Administrators
software

12. This is Janelle Herbert, 12 year old writer
who has a few words about how parents
should help their children with bullying:
● talk to you child
● listen to your child's troubles
● dont allow the bully to trigger a
reaction
● tell them you love them everyday
http://mybrownbaby.com/2011/05/how-parents-can-help-stop-bullies/

13. Additional Steps
Privacy setting
Facebook - where is find it: http://www.facebook.
com/privacy/explanation.php
sample of facebook page
Resources:
● The Columbia Center for Youth Violence Prevention
● 722 West 168th Street, Floor 16
New York, NY 10032
Tel: 212-305-8213
Fax: 212-342-5169
mlp2151@columbia.edu
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