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.

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