CYBERBULLYING

PEREZ, MICHAEL FYEL R.

DEFINITION OF TERMS
Anonymizer – an intermediary web site that hides or disguises the IP address associated with the
internet user. Generally, the sites allow a person to engage in various Internet activities without
leaving an easily traceable digital footprint.
Bullying – repeated and deliberate harassment directed by one in a position of power toward one
or more. It involves physical threats or behavior, including assault, or indirect and subtle forms
of aggression, including rumor spreading.
Cyberbullying – is a form of harassment that occurs via the Internet
Digital Immigrant – a person who has not grown up with digital technology, such as computers,
cell phones, and the Internet, but has adopted it later.
Digital Native – a person who has grown up with digital technology, such as computers,
cellphones, and the Internet.
Happy slapping is a fad originating in the UK in which one or more people attack a victim for the
purpose of recording the assault (commonly with a camera phone or a smartphone).
Internet – a worldwide network of computers communicating with each other via phone lines, satellite
links, wireless networks, and cable systems
Internet Meme – may take the form of an image, hyperlink, video, picture, website, or hashtag. It may
be just a word or phrase, including an intentional misspelling. 
Newbie – someone who is new to, and experienced with, an internet activity or technology. Also
referred to as a newb, n00b, nob, noob and nub.
Offender – the one who instigates online social cruelty. Also known as the “aggressor”
Shoulder Surfing – peering over the should of someone to see the contents on that person’s computer or
cellphone screen
Spam – unsolicited electronic mail sent from someone unknown to the recipient
Victim – the person who is on the receiving end of online social cruelty. Also know as the “target”
CYBERBULLYING
Cyberbullying is when a child, preteen or teen is tormented, threatened, harassed,
humiliated, embarrassed or otherwise targeted by another child, preteen or teen using
the Internet, interactive and digital technologies or mobile phones.
Technologies such as:
• email,
• cell phone
• pager
• text messages,
• instant messaging (IM),
• defamatory personal web sites
• defamatory online personal polling web sites
FORMS OF CYBERBULLYING
The following reflect the most common forms of cyberbullying, though this list is not exhaustive.
Flaming – Online fights using electronic messages with angry and vulgar language.
Harassment – Repeatedly sending offensive, rude and insulting messages.
Cyberstalking – Repeatedly sending message that include threats of harm or are highly intimidating;
engaging in other online activities that make a person afraid for his or her safety.
Denigration – “Dissing” someone online. Sending or posting cruel gossip or rumors about a person
to damage his or her reputation or friendships.
Exclusion – Intentionally excluding someone from an online group, like a “buddy list” or a game.
Trolling – Intentionally posting provocative messages about sensitive subjects to create conflict,
upset people, and bait them into “flaming” or fighting.
Impersonation – Breaking into someone’s account, posing as that person and sending messages to
make the person look bad, get that person in trouble or danger, or damage that person's reputation or
friendships.
Outing and trickery – Sharing someone’s secrets or embarrassing information online. Tricking
someone into revealing secrets or embarrassing information, which is then shared online.
“INTERNET MEMES”
SIGNIFICANCE
32% of online teens say they have been targets of a range of annoying online
activities.

15% of teens overall say someone has forwarded or posted a private message
they’ve written, 13% say someone has spread a rumor about them online, 13% say
someone has sent them a threatening or aggressive message, and 6% say someone
has posted embarrassing pictures of them online.

38% of online girls report being bullied, compared with 26% of online boys. In
particular, 41% of older girls (15-17) report being bullied—more than any other
age or gender group.

39% of social network users have been cyberbullied in some way, compared with
22% of online teens who do not use social networks.
WHY CYBERBULLYING IS DIFFERENT?
People who are being cyberbullied are often bullied in
person as well. Additionally, those who are cyberbullied
have a harder time getting away from the behavior.
• Cyberbullying can happen 24 hours a day, 7 days a
week, and reach a kid even when he or she is alone. It
can happen any time of the day or night.
• Cyberbullying messages and images can be posted
anonymously and distributed quickly to a very wide
audience. It can be difficult and sometimes impossible to
trace the source.
• Deleting inappropriate or harassing messages, texts, and
pictures is extremely difficult after they have been
posted or sent.
CAUSES OF CYBERBULLYING
What Causes people to
participate in cyberbullying?
• Children do it for revenge of
other peers
• Children do it simply for
entertainment purposes
• Some do it to boost their ego
• Children do it to get a laugh
from their peers
• Children do it to help bolster or
remind people of their own
social standing
EFFECTS OF CYBERBULLYING
Persons who are cyberbullied are more likely to:

• Use alcohol and drugs

• Skip school
• Experience in-person bullying
• Be unwilling to attend school
• Receive poor grades
• Have lower self-esteem
• Have more health problems
CYBERBULLYING; A SOCIO-
ECONOMIC ISSUE
Cyber-bullying via social media seen as crime.

Cyber-bullying is one such problem that the advancement in technology

and social media has generated. It can potentially affect not only school-
aged children, but also any individual who has access to a mobile phone
or the internet.
As a result, “Internet bashing” has become a culture among Filipino
Internet users and even spawned problems that involve hostility and
aggression.
LAWS FOR CYBERBULLYING
Republic Act No. 10175 Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012
An act defining cybercrime, providing for the prevention, investigation, suppression and the imposition
of penalties therefor and for other purposes.  It aims to address legal issues concerning online interactions
and the Internet in the Philippines. Among the cybercrime offenses included in the bill
are cybersquatting, cybersex, child pornography, identity theft, illegal access to data and libel.

House Bill No. 6166 Anti Cyber Bullying Act of 2012

An act of defining and penalizing the crime of cyberbullying. This bill seeks to bring the country’s laws
up-to-date, give bullies a concrete reason to quit their online antics, and provide victims protection
against this new breed of bully. Cyber bullying has become a serious problem and we need a law to
combat it.
RECOMMENDATION AND SOLUTIONS
• We should learn and be aware of using internet properly.
• We should be oriented on the benefits as well as the consequences of using the internet.
• We are advised to choose and analyze the kind of message we are going to post or send in the
internet, consider its effect to the possible reader or receiver; and assure that it will not give
any harm or damage to others.
• More parental supervision must be put into practice to be sure that that internet is not being
use the wrong way like in cyber bullying.
• Establish effective responses to reports of cyber bullying.
• Think Before We Click!
CONCLUSION
C Y B E R B U L LY I N G I S A G R O W I N G
PHENOMENON IN OUR SOCIETY AND THE
N E E D T O H AV E C O N T I N U E D V I G I L A N C E I N
H A LT I N G I T S P R O G R E S S I O N I S A TA S K T H AT
E V E RY O N E M U S T U N D E RTA K E . A S A N E W
F O R M O F B U L LY I N G W I T H M A N Y O F T H E
S A M E R E S U LT S I N T E R M S O F O U T C O M E S F O R
I T S V I C T I M S , S O C I E T Y I S C U R R E N T LY
A D A P T I N G T O A S O C I A L I Z AT I O N P R O C E S S F O R
C H I L D R E N A N D Y O U T H T H AT I N C L U D E S T H E
G R O W I N G S PA N O F U N P L E A S A N T R E A L I T I E S
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T H AT T H E R E A R E U N I Q U E AT T R I B U T E S T H AT
C H A R A C T E R I Z E C Y B E R B U L LY I N G A N D T H AT
S O C I E T Y M U S T D E V E L O P A N AWA R E N E S S O F
I T S S I G N S , I N C I D E N C E , A N D I M PA C T.
SOURCES

http://www.stopbullying.gov/cyberbullying/what-is-it/
http://archive.adl.org/education/curriculum_connections/cyberbullying/glossary.pdf
http://cyberbullyingbook.com/Cyberbullying_Glossary.pdf
http://tameshaveasley-cyberbullying.blogspot.com/2011/03/cause-and-effects-of-cyberbullying.html
www.stopbullyingnow.hrsa.gov
http://tameshaveasley-cyberbullying.blogspot.com/2011/03/cause-and-effects-of-cyberbullying.html