1. If you see it don’t support it! RECOGNISE IT, REJECT IT, REPORT IT!
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BULLYING
IS DELIBERATE, REPEATED HURTFUL BEHAVIOUR
If you see it don’t support it!
RECOGNISE IT, REJECT IT, REPORT IT! 1

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Bullying behaviour is no longer restricted to the
school yard.
It can be by phone or online and out of sight and earshot of both teachers and parents.

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Your home should be a safe place where you can be away from bullying and harassment . . .
. . . but Cyber Bullying by phone and online can affect you even when you are at home . . .

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Being cruel, leaving in circulation material hurtful to others or about others using technological means
Cyber Bullying is repeatedly using computers, mobile phones, smart phones or any other technology to cause hurt or embarrassment to another person

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Cyber Bullies may:
Spread lies about students
Spread rumours about students
Circulate pictures without consent
Circulate altered pictures without consent
Trick people into revealing personal information
Circulate personal information about someone without consent

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“Flaming”: Online fights using electronic messages with angry and vulgar language
“Harassment”: Repeatedly sending offensive, rude, and insulting messages
“Cyber Stalking”: Repeatedly sending messages that include threats of harm or are highly intimidating or engaging in other on-line activities that make a person afraid for his or her own safety
“Denigration”: ‘Dissing’ someone online. Sending or posting cruel gossip or rumors about a person to damage his or her reputation or friendships

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“Impersonation”: Pretending to be someone else and sending or posting material online that makes someone look bad, gets her/him in trouble or danger, or damages her/his reputation or friendships
“Outing and Trickery”: Tricking someone into revealing secret or embarrassing information which is then shared online
“Exclusion”: Intentionally excluding someone from an on-line group, like a ‘buddy list’

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Mobile/smart phones
Text messages
Instant messaging / MSN
Social networking sites
Chat rooms
These can be like well-designed playgrounds at night with no adults and with a few troublemakers hanging around
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People who Cyber Bully:
May pretend it’s “a joke”
May think it’s “no big deal”
May be encouraged by friends
May pretend everybody does it
May not think about consequences
Think they won’t or can’t get caught
If so, as you will see they should definitely think again!

10. Anti-Bullying Campaign “But we were just slagging!”
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“But we were just slagging!”
“We didn't mean it!”
Slagging is …
When the student targeted is in on the joke
When student targeted also laughs
When it ends quickly
When all are on the same level
When there is no discrimination
When there is no fear or threat
Any hurt or upset is accidental
(Cyber)-Bullying is …
Unwanted
Repeated over time
A power imbalance
Victim feels socially excluded
A threat
Deliberate
Used to upset people

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Before this issue arises - Be Proactive
Cyber Bullies like:
Pictures of you So . . .
Your Private information So . . .
Your Personal information So . . .
Your Passwords So . . .
Worries you have So . . .
Knowing what upsets you So . . .
Using these to embarrass you So . . .
Sharing these with THEIR friends who are not your friends and . . .
who may share them with their friends . . .
who do not even know you and . . .
who may share them with their friends So . . .

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One of the most worrying aspects of Cyber Bullying is that . . . ? ? ?
. . . You can’t see who is doing it so you think you don’t know who it is. ? ? ?
But as we will see you can find out . . .

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Research shows that those who Cyber Bully are usually the same people who bully people directly . . .
so you may know who they are . . .
But to prove it you will need evidence . . .
and cyber-bullies leave lots of electronic “fingerprints.”
So, to outsmart them . . .
don’t be angry be clever!

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A victim of Cyber Bullying by phone should:
Never reply to bullying or harassment by phone
Put yourself in control - store the messages as evidence
Block the sender - phone networks allow you to do this
Tell someone you trust that the bullying is going on
If Cyber Bullying continues, report the problem to parents/teachers and depending on severity, bring the evidence to the Gardaí.
Even if the sender’s number is hidden the exact time and date are attached to messages and enable the Gardaí to check with the service provider and trace the sender of the message

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A victim of Cyber Bullying online should:
Never reply to online bullying or harassment even if tempted
Put yourself in control - store and print out messages and keep them as evidence, noting exact time and date if possible
Block communication with the Cyber Bullying person:
(a) by , by adding her/him to your “blocked list” and
(b) on social networking sites (e.g. Facebook) by
(i) reporting it to the site administrators (ask a friend/adult to do so too) - giving details of why it is so “harmful” and
(ii) changing your privacy settings to exclude her/him
If Cyber Bullying continues, report the problem to parents/teachers and depending on severity, bring the evidence to the Gardaí.

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Something everyone
who uses social media
should know:
Under the Department of Education’s
new anti-bullying procedures:
“ Placing a once-off offensive or hurtful public message, image or statement on a social network site or other public forum where that message, image or statement can be viewed and/or repeated by other people will be regarded as bullying behaviour.”
This makes sense because every extra hour/day
you choose to leave such a thing in place
is like a repetition of the original act.

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Useful rules to live by:
If you wouldn’t say it in person don’t say it in a message
Before you send a message remember everything that is sent is traceable - even if you send it anonymously
If it is nasty, if it is mean don’t send it, don’t forward it, don’t let it be seen
Ask your friends to help, to . . .
Adapted with kind permission of Caroline O’Doherty, Loreto, Beaufort 17