Cyberbullying

= What Is Cyber-Bullying ? = = = //**Cyber-bullying**// is “any time someone is teasing or embarrassing or making threats to someone else online or with the use of technology". Most cyber-bullying is present on social networking sites (facebook, myspace), online chatting programs, (Yahoo, Microsoft and American Online instant messengers), and through email. Many times cell phones are used via text message or a vicious phone call. Now, even videos are posted on popular sites like YouTube that show fights, or what would happen through a threat.

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  //Do this check list to see if you are a cyberbully.//

 Often, people who are victims are also bullies. Before you feel too bad for yourself, take the quiz below to find if you, too, are part of the cyberbullying problem! Rate yourself on the following point scale according to if, and how many times, you have done the below activities. Give yourself 0 points if you’ve never done it, 1 point if you have done it 1 or 2 times, 2 points if you have done it 3-5 times, 3 points if you have done it more than 5 times.


 
 *  Signed on with someone else’s screen name to gather info?
 *  Sent an e-mail or online greeting card from someone’s account?
 *  Impersonated someone over IM or online?
 *  Teased or frightened someone over IM?
 *  <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive">Not told someone who you really are online, telling them to “guess”?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive">Forwarded a private IM conversation or e-mail without the permission of the other person?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive">Changed your profile or away message designed to embarrass or frighten someone?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive">Posted pictures or information about someone on a Web site without their consent?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive">Created an Internet poll, either over IM or on a Web site, about someone without their consent?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive">Used information found online to follow, tease, embarrass or harass someone in person?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive">Sent rude or scary things to someone, even if you were just joking?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive">Used bad language online?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive">Signed someone else up for something online without their permission?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive">Used an IM or e-mail address that looked like someone else’s?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive">Used someone else’s password for any reason without their permission?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive">Hacked into someone else’s computer or sent a virus or Trojan horse to them?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive">Insulted someone in an interactive game room?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive">Posted rude things or lies about someone online?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive">Voted at an online bashing poll or posted to a guestbook saying rude or mean things?

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive">Now calculate your total score <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive">
<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"> //0 – 5 Points: Cyber Saint// Congratulations! You’re a cyber saint! Your online behavior is exemplary! Keep up the good work!

//6-10 Points: Cyber Risky// Well, you’re not perfect, but few people are. Chances are you haven’t done anything terrible and were just having fun, but try not to repeat your behaviors, since they are all offenses. Keep in mind the pain that your fun might be causing others!

//11-18 Points: Cyber Sinner// You’re online behavior needs to be reproached! You have done way too many cyber no-no’s! Keep in mind that these practices are dangerous, wrong, and punishable and try to be clean up that cyber record!

//More than 18: Cyber Bully// Put on the breaks and turn that PC/MAC/text-messaging device around! You are headed in a very bad direction. You qualify, without doubt, as a cyberbully. You need to sign off and think about where that little mouse of yours has been clicking before serious trouble results for you and/or your victim(s), if it hasn’t happened already!

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"> For More Information On Cyberbullying Check Out The Links Below:

 * [|Stop Cyberbullying]
 * [|Wikipedia Cyber-Bullying]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive">[|A Public Advertising Campaign Aimed At Preventing Cyberbullying]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"> [|Cyberbullying: The New Way Kids Are Hurting other Kids]

Brought to you by CS211A 2008 (Danny and Emily)