Cyberbullying and Sexting

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Cyberbullying and Sexting

• Seneca Middle School

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Technology Pros and Cons

• Positive Aspects
• Schoolwork
• Learning/ Cultural Opportunities
• Self expression
• Communication

• Negative Aspects
• Disturbing/ offensive materials
• Predators
• Illegal Activity
• Bullying

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Why do kids bully other kids online?

• You cant see me/ I cant see you
• Cyberbullies feel they can act anonymously
• It is more difficult for them to feel empathy
• Is often done rapidly, with little time to think.

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Cyberbullying Quiz

• Are you 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 following activities.
• Give yourself
• 0 points if youve 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.

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Cyberbullying Quiz - 2

• Have you ever...
• ___Signed on to someone elses screen name to
  gather info?
• ___Sent an e-mail or online greeting card from
  someone elses account?
• ___Impersonated someone over IM or online?
• ___Teased or frightened someone over IM?
• ___Not told someone who you really are online,
  telling them to guess?
• ___Forwarded a private IM conversation or e-mail
  without the permission of the other person?
• ___Changed your profile or away message so as to
  embarrass or frighten someone?
• ___Posted pictures or information about someone
  on a Web site without their consent?
• ___Created an Internet poll, either over IM or on
  a Web site, about someone without their consent?

• ___Used information found online to follow,
  tease, embarrass or harass someone in person?
• ___Sent rude or scary things to someone, even if
  you were just joking?
• ___Used bad language online?
• ___Signed someone else up for something online
  without their permission?
• ___Used an IM or e-mail address that looked like
  someone elses?
• ___Used someone elses password for any reason
  without their permission?
• ___Hacked into someone elses computer or sent a
  virus or Trojan horse to them?
• ___Insulted someone in an interactive game room?
• ___Posted rude things or lies about someone
  online?
• ___Voted at an online bashing poll or posted to a
  guestbook saying rude or mean things?

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Cyberbullying Quiz - 3

• Now calculate your total score ___________
• What your score means
• 0 5 Points Cyber Saint
• Congratulations! Youre a cyber saint! Your
  online behavior is exemplary! Keep up the good
  work!
• 6-10 Points Cyber Risky
• Well, youre not perfect, but few people are.
  Chances are you havent 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
• Your online behavior needs to be improved! You
  have done way too many cyber no-nos! Keep in
  mind that these practices are dangerous, wrong,
  and punishable, and try to clean up that cyber
  record!
• More than 18 Cyber Bully
• Put on the brakes 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
  hasnt happened already!

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Videos

• Talent Show
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vseOQyMvG99wfeature
  related
• http//adcouncil.wmod.llnwd.net/a540/o1/adcouncil/
  tv/bullying/cyber_TalentShow_ViralVideo.wmv
• Kitchen
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vQYaWNYXpBisNR1
• http//adcouncil.wmod.llnwd.net/a540/o1/adcouncil/
  tv/bullying/cyber_Kitchen_ViralVideo.wmv

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Cyberbullying Tragic Consequences

• Megan Meier, 13, began receiving nasty messages
  from a boy after a few weeks of an online
  flirtation with him via her MySpace account,
  ending with one that suggested the world would
  be a better place without her. Megan, believing
  she had been rejected by "Josh," committed
  suicide in her home.
• Six weeks after Megans death, her parents
  learned that "Josh Evans" never existed. He was
  an online character created by Lori Drew, then
  47, who lived four houses down the street and was
  the mother of one of Megan's former friends.
• In a highly unusual use of a federal law
  generally employed in computer fraud cases, a
  federal grand jury indicted Ms. Drew in May 2008
  on charges that she had used a phony online
  identity to trick and taunt Megan. She pled not
  guilty to the charges and the case went to trial
  in November 2008.
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vHFsfDLCkfQU
• http//www.meganmeierfoundation.org/media/

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Cyberbullying Video

• Lets Fight It Together
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vfNumIY9D7uYfeature
  related
• or
• http//www.digizen.org/cyberbullying/fullfilm.aspx
  

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Sexting

• Is the use of a cell phones text message
  function to send lewd pictures or messages to
  others
• Can cause embarrassment, ridicule, and bullying
• Can wind up on the Internet or in the hands of
  sexual predators
• Is child pornography, which can be prosecuted as
  a state or federal crime

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Sexting - 2

• In Chippewa Falls, Wis., police in October
  charged a 17-year-old boy with using his cell
  phone to circulate images of a 16-year-old former
  girlfriend. In the case, which is still pending,
  the boy faces a state felony charge of exposing a
  child to harmful material.
• In January, 2009, police in Greensburg, Pa.,
  arrested six teens on child pornography charges.
  Three girls under 16 are charged with
  manufacturing, disseminating or possessing child
  pornography. Three males who attend the same high
  school are charged with possessing child
  pornography.

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Sexting - Tragic Consequences

• March 6 18-year-old Jesse Logan took her own
  life after a
• nude picture of her was passed around by e-mail.
• The image was blurred and the voice distorted,
  but the words spoken by a young Ohio woman are
  haunting. She had sent nude pictures of herself
  to a boyfriend. When they broke up, he sent them
  to other high school girls. The girls were
  harassing her, calling her a slut and a whore.
  She was miserable and depressed, afraid even to
  go to school.
• And now Jesse Logan was going on a Cincinnati
  television station to tell her story. Her purpose
  was simple I just want to make sure no one else
  will have to go through this again.
• The interview was in May 2008. Two months later,
  Jessica Logan hanged herself in her bedroom. She
  was 18.
• http//www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/295462372
  9546237

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Video

• Think Before You Post!
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vrvp-kZeoWW0NR1
• mms//a974.v167312.c16731.g.vm.akamaistream.net/7/
  974/16731/1174419/stream-1.onstreammedia.com/cdn_s
  tream/multivu/9352/26474_Bulletin_Board_300k.wmv
• http//adcouncil.wmod.llnwd.net/a540/o1/adcouncil/
  tv/online_sexual_exploitation/ose_bulletinboard.wm
  v

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School Consequences

• If you are caught sexting or cyberbullying
  another student, please keep in mind
• You can be suspended for a very long time
• You can be arrested and face criminal charges
• This IS the schools business and administrators
• WILL investigate any reports of
• cyberbullying or sexting

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Strategies for Kids

• CYBERBULLYING
• How to Prevent Respond to it
• 1. Always respect others
• When you send a message, you cannot see the
  impact that your words or images have on the
  other person. That is why it is important to
  always show respect to people and be careful what
  you say online and what images you send. If you
  receive an inappropriate picture or rude or nasty
  message about someone, do not forward it because
  then you become part of the cyberbullying.
• 2. Think before you send
• It is important to think before you send any
  images or text about yourself or someone else by
  email or phone and before you post information on
  a website. What you send can be made public very
  quickly and could stay online forever.
• 3. Treat your password like your toothbrush
• Dont let anyone know your passwords! Choose
  hard-to-guess passwords with symbols or numbers.
• 4. Block the bully
• Most responsible websites and services allow you
  to block or report someone who is behaving badly.
  Make use of these features they are there for a
  reason.
• 5. Dont retaliate or reply!
• Replying to the bullying messages, in any way,
  is just what the bully wants.

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Strategies for Kids - 2

• 6. Save the evidence
• Learn how to keep records of offending messages,
  pictures, or online conversations. These will
  help you demonstrate to others what is happening
  and can be used by your school or police to
  investigate the cyberbullying.
• 7. Make sure you tell
• You have a right NOT to be harassed and bullied
  online. To get help, tell
• -An adult you trust
• -Your school
• -The police
• 8. Dont just stand there!
• If you see cyberbullying going on, support the
  victim and report the bullying. How would you
  feel if no one stood up for you?

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Strategies for Parents

• Combating Cyberbullying -
• Tips for Parents
• To help keep students safe online, parents have
  to be aware of the types of activities kids are
  engaged in online and teach teens about
  cyber-ethics, responsibility, and Internet
  safety.
• The following are some topics to have a
  conversation about with your child
• The risks and benefits of the internet
• Examples of inappropriate incidents that can
  happen online, which teens may view as harmless
  or normal
• What they are doing online
• That they should never give out personal
  information online
• (name, address, phone number, school name,
  etc.)
• Cyberbullying and how to react if they are
  cyberbullied
• Keeping computers in highly trafficked rooms in
  the house
• Despite our collective efforts to teach teens
  about cyber safety, they can still be victimized
  by others who cyberbully. Parents can help teens
  who are cyberbullied by teaching them methods
  that can prevent bullying

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Strategies for Parents - 2

• Teach teens not to respond to cyberbullies
• Tell teens that they should never try to seek
  revenge on a bully or cyberbully
• Let teens know that they can report bullying
  incidents to website moderators
• Remind your teens to keep their passwords a
  secret from everyone except you
• Tell your teens that its not their fault if
  they become victims of cyberbullying, but it is
  important for them to tell you if they are
  victimized. Assure them that you will not revoke
  their Internet privileges if they are
  cyberbullied
• Help keep a record of bullying incidents
• To Learn More about Cyberbullying, Check out
  These Websites
• www.sachem.edu/schools/seneca
• www.ncpc.org
• www.wiredsafety.org
• www.stopcyberbullying.org
• www.ikeepsafe.org