Santiago Ravaglia, Theo Offer and Tadeo Bottos CYBERBULLYNG Santiago Ravaglia, Theo Offer and Tadeo Bottos

Cyberbullyng Cuestionary Cyberbulling is the use of technology to harm or harass other people in a deliberated, repeated and hostile manner. According to the U.S. legal definitions, cyberbullyng could be limited to post rumours or grossips about a person in the internet. Cyberbullyng has become increasingly common, especially among teenagers.

The diferent types of cyeberbullyng are the next ones: Harassing Someone: It consist in posting rumor son social networks such as Facebook or Twitter or sending text messages to a victim making harass, threaten or embarrass them.

Impersonating Someone: It consists in making a false acount similar to victims acount or steal the victims acount and posting rude or hurtful things, talk bad to friend and parents of the, changing victims profile to put sexual, racist or other inapropiated things.

Using Photographs: It consist in taking nude photograps of the victim without his or her permission and post them, threatening to share embarrasing potos of the victim as a way to control him or her.

Creating Websites, Blogs, Polls and More: it consist in develop a website with humillating thing for the victim, spreading rumors of the victim in website or blogs, posting personal information and pictures on a website, creating a blog about the victim that is embarrasing, insulting or humillating.

Participating in “Happy-Slapping”: it consist in using a camera or pone to videotape one or more kids slapping, hitting, kicking or punching the victim, uploadit to youtube or sharing it via mass e-mail or text message.

Cyberbullying can affect anyone in the world Cyberbullying can affect anyone in the world. Some laws have been created and stablished that go againts this crime. It usually affects kids or teens that may have divorced parents,personality problems, weight problems, sexuality issues, etc. We are all in danger with these problems because it doesn’t only affect kids or teens, it also affects adults in their Works or in social networks.

A lot of countries have begun updating anti-bullying laws againts these problems. In Argentina, the government has created a law againts cyberbullying. Since 2008, the users from Argentina are protected by the law N° 26.388; this law introduced the cybercrimes to the national penal code. The problem with this law is that it doesn’t punish the identity theft, which grants pedophiles a safe environment to contact with kids and commit cybercrimes.

One winter evening, Ramiro sat on his computer to chat with friends as he used to do every day. For a 15 year old boy, connecting to the Internet and exchange messages, pictures and music is the closest thing to breathe. He entered in a popular web site, where users without registration and anonymously, could exchange gossip of any college. One afternoon he saw his picture published. His face, in the foreground, occupied a quarter of the screen. Below, an anonymous message attack: THIS IS FOR RAMIRO AN ASSHOLE, FOR WHICH DO NOT KNOW. A few hours later, another photo showed him trick with a clown nose, a fluorescent wig and a drawing of a penis in his mouth.

Some of the consequences of cyberbullying are: _ Lost of self-confidence _ Impotence _ Humillated kids _ Aמxiety _ Going outside(to the Street) fear _ Isomnia _ Low califications at school _ Backache _ Depresive states _ Anger _ Suicide _ Lost of self-steem _ Fatigue _ Emtionals sequelae

To deal with cyberbullyng: Save every message. Never participate To deal with cyberbullyng: Save every message. Never participate. Identify the person doing it. Approach them in person. If the case is severe, press charges. For more Information visit: www.wikihow.com/Handle-Cyber-Bulyng/ www.bullyng.co.uk/cyberbullyng/how-to-deal-with-cyberbullyng