2. What?
When a child, preteen or teen is tormented by another child, preteen or
teen using the Internet, interactive and digital technologies or mobile
phones. It has to have a minor on both sides, or at least have been
instigated by a minor against another minor.
How?
The methods used are limited only by the child's imagination and access to
technology (Social networks, phones, chats…)
www.stopcyberbultying.org
3. Criminal case upon which Lori Drew was
convicted of Computer Fraud and Abuse over
the cyber-bullying of 13 year old Megan Meier.
Drew, a 49 year old woman living in
Missouri, created a fake myspace account with
the alias name Josh Evans to befriend Megan
Meier
“Evans” and Meier began a flirtatious
relationship that turned sour fast
Megan Meier hung herself because of the
remarks made by “Evans”
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=3882520&page=1
4. 20% had someone pretend to 45% of all teens have
be someone else in order to
trick them into revealing been cyberbullied in
personal information
17% were victimized by the past year alone
someone lying about them
online
13% learned that a
cyberbully was pretending to
be them while
communicating with
someone else
10% were victimized by
someone else posting
unflattering pictures of them
without permission
www.ncpc.org
6. Middle and High Schools
Faculty
Parents of students
Students
Create separate packets for each group
Community
7. Needs the most information
Include background data so they can create
their own presentations based on class needs
Topics:
How to tell if a student is being bullied online
What to do if you suspect cyber bullying
How you can prevent cyber bullying as a faculty
member
8. Also require a lot of background data. Focusing
on prevention and signs
Topics:
How to prevent your child from becoming a target
of bullying
What to do if you find your child is being targeted
How to know if your child is a bully online, and how
to stop it
9. Require the most targeted information on how
to deal with being targeted
Topics
What to do if you are being cyber bullied
How to prevent being targeted by cyber bullies
How to be respectful of others online
10. With the communities help we can create
enough awareness to eventually stop cyber
bullying
Together we can decrease the statistics of cyber
bullying
Cyber bullying is too big of an issue to handle
alone
Make official laws against cyberbullying
11. Join local PTA‟s
Write letters to lawmakers
Flag cyberbullying on social media sites
Join movements/organizations
http://www.socialsafety.org/law_enforcement_cyberbullying.html
12. E-mails,
Instant messaging,
Text or digital imaging messages sent on cell
phones,
Web pages
Web logs (blogs), Chat rooms or discussion
groups
Social Networking sites
13. Start a anti cyberbullying campaign
School involvement
Special events
Public speakers and personal testimonies
Pledging to not bully
PSA involvement
Advertisement on Facebook
You tube video
14. Place a permanent ad on Facebook raising cyberbullying awareness and
prevention
15. Educate social media
users on how to
recognize, handle, and
prevent cyberbullying
Show people the effects of
cyberbullying
Inform people on how to
report or go to higher
authority if needed
Get people involved in the
anti cyberbullying
movement
No more anonymity
Get laws passed making
cyberbullying illegal
16. Facebook‟s marketing director Randi
Zuckerberg says the best way to end
cyberbullying is to not allow anonymous or
spam accounts
“people hide behind anonymity and feel like
they can say whatever they want behind closed
doors”
Eric Schmidt, former Google CEO has made
this suggestion in the past and predictes
“govenments will eventually „demand‟ that
people use their names for all online activity”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mobileweb/2011/07/27/ra
ndi-zuckerberg-anonymity-online_n_910892.html
17. Conditions and terms of use agreement before
accessing a Social media site
Public record of your social media account
Monitor Activity
Point system like drivers when flagged or reported.
18. Our optimal plan will be to pair with a
nonprofit and use their financial backing to
help get our program off the ground. If not, we
have several options:
Bootstrapping: Generate funds ourselves
Small bank loans
Partner with similar programs of size or scope
19. How are we going to measure our success?
Indicators:
Social media monitoring: Are kids talking about the
issue?
Website traffic: Is our website generating views?
Number of participants: How many
schools, faculty, parents, and/or students are
participating?
Focus on effectiveness more than efficency