Message Boards and Cyber Bullying
Message Boards and Cyber Bullying
A message board is a place where a group of people that have similar interests hang out and have discussions within the group. There is usually not much talk about this in the way of cyber bullying, but this should be something that every parent is aware of.
Message boards are not much different than hanging out with social groups in school. Some of the people that post message or threads are nice people and others are not so nice. Because there are usually hundreds of members on these message boards cyber bullying is common.
This is how they can get started on the group bullying.
A child registers to become a member to a message board about playing a video game on the X-Box. They start to respond to some of the threads that are on the message board. One of the “not so nice people” for one reason or another wants to flex their Internet muscles and intimidate, harass and run the victim off of the message board.
So the one doing the bullying responds to every one of the victims threads saying negative things, pointing out faults in what they are saying, and in general trying to humiliate the victim.
Most victims realize this and decide to respond by saying “hey, leave me alone” and that is exactly what the bully wanted and then starts to really harass that person in the forums (another name for message board). They can make up lies, Photoshop an image, try and hack their email, and many other things.
Before you know it, the other members that thing what the bully is doing might be funny if they joined in start doing the same exact thing to the victim. This kind of social rejection is something that nobody should have to be subject to, let alone a child.
In many cases if you talk to the bullies’ parents about what is happening, the issue will resolve itself, but if necessary you will have the ability to print out the recorded events and provide them to your local law enforcement agency, or your child’s school guidance counselor.
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Is online bullying fun?
Cyber bullying may seem like a fun thing for the person that is doing the bullying, but this most likely leaves the victim feeling isolated and depressed. As a parent you need to take every possible action to prevent this kind of behavior affecting your child’s life.
Is cyber bullying a group effort?
In many instances cyber bullying can be a group effort. It may be initiated by one person, but before too long there are others that take it upon themselves to intimidate the victim. This can often leave a child feeling very "small" when a group of bullies are on the prowl.
Learn what to do
With proper planning, talking to your children about cyber bullying is not as difficult as you may think. In fact, taking the first steps to resolving or discovering this kind of activity will diminish the chances that they will encounter it in the first place.
Testimonials:
"When bullying is done over the Internet you think you can get away with it because you don't see the emotional reaction as if it were done face to face. You don't see the person crying and being upset. So it is much easier to be more mean and hurtful. When I received those e-mails It took me long to recover but thank to my Mom who found out right on time I'm back to being my self."
- Victim of Cyber Bullying
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