CYBERBULLYING

Cyberbullying is when someone uses

technology to send mean, threatening, or
embarrassing messages to or about another
person.
Cyberbullying can be anonymous, which
can sometimes make it even worse. It also
has a wider audience, and can spread
quickly.
 DIFFERENT FORMS OF
CYBERBULLYING
 FLAMING
Flaming is a hostile
and insulting interaction between persons
over the Internet, often involving the use
of profanity.
It can also be the swapping of insults
back and forth or with many people teaming
up on a single victim.
 DENIGRATION
Denigration is used in both classic and
cyber bullying, denigration is a term used to
describe when cyber bullies send, post or
publish cruel rumors, gossip and untrue
statements about a target child to
intentionally damage their reputation or
frienships.
 EXCLUSION

Exclusion is a cyberbullying tactic that is

highly effective and directly targets a child’s
development need to feel accepted and part
of a social construct.
 OUTING

Outing is a term that includes the public

display, posting, or forwarding of personal
communication or images by the cyber bully
personal to the target child.
 IMPERSONATING
Impersonation or “imping” as a tactic in
cyber bullying can only occur with the “veil
of anonymity” offered by digital
technology.
Cyber bullies impersonate the target child
and make unpopular online comments on
social networking sites and in chat rooms.
 HARASSMENT
Cyber harassment refers to online
harassment.
Cyber harassment or bullying is the use
of email, instant messaging, and derogatory
websites to bully or otherwise harass an
individual or group through personal
attacks.
 HARASSMENT

Cyber harassment can be in the form of

flames, comments made in chat rooms,
sending of offensive or cruel e-mail, or even
harassing others by posting on blogs or
social networking sites.
*
 CYBERSTALKING

Cyberstalking is a criminal practice where

an individual uses the Internet to
systematically harass or threaten someone.
PERSONAL HUMILIATION
Involves posting images or videos intended
to embarrass or humiliate someone, it can
involve users sharing and posting images or
videos of victims being abused or humiliated
offline, or users sharing personal
communications such as emails or text
messages with a wider audience than was
intended by the sender.