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Topic : Cyberbullying. Have you grab PC Magazine-March 2007 edition. If you did, skip this topic. If you dont, stay :)

There is article about cyberbullying [buli-siber]. What is that?

According to Wikipedia, it refers to : Cyberbullying is the term used to refer to bullying and harassment by use of electronic devices though means of e-mail, instant messaging, text messages, blogs, mobile phones, pagers, and websites.

Other terms for cyberbullying are “electronic bullying,” “electronic harassment,” “e-bullying,” “sms bullying,” “mobile bullying,” “online bullying,” “digital bullying,” or “Internet bullying”.

It can constitute a computer crime. For example, in the United States it is a federal crime to anonymously “annoy, abuse, threaten, or harass any person” via the internet or telecommunication system, punishable by a fine and/or up to two years imprisonment.

[1]Cyberbullying is willful and involves recurring or repeated harm inflicted through the medium of electronic text. According to R.B. Standler

[2]bullying intends to cause emotional distress and has no legitimate purpose to the choice of communications. Cyberbullying can be as simple as continuing to send e-mail to someone who has said they want no further contact with the sender. Cyberbullying may also include threats, sexual remarks, pejorative labels (i.e., hate speech)

Bit blur. Me too! SO I catch-up this simple explanation about cyberbullying!

Cyberbullying is sending or posting harmful or cruel text or images using the Internet or other digital communication devices.

The stories are heart breaking. Teens who are:

  1. Sending cruel, vicious, and sometimes threatening messages.
  2. Creating web sites that have stories, cartoons, pictures, and jokes ridiculing others.
  3. Posting pictures of classmates online and asking students to rate them, with questions such “Who is the biggest ___ (add a derogatory term)?”
  4. Breaking into an e-mail account and sending vicious or embarrassing material to others.
  5. Engaging someone in IM (instant messaging), tricking that person into revealing sensitive personal information, and forwarding that information to others.
  6. Taking a picture of a person in the locker room using a digital phone camera and sending that picture to others.
  7. Cyberbullying is emerging as one of the more challenging issues facing educators and parents as young people embrace the Internet and other mobile communication technologies.

Cyberthreats are a related concern. A cyberthreat is online material that threatens or raises concerns about violence against others, suicide, or other self-harm.

There are two kinds:

  • Direct threats are actual threats to hurt someone or commit suicide.
  • Distressing material provides clues that the person is emotionally upset and may be considering hurting someone, hurting him or herself or committing suicide.
My simple question : Did you ever do that on anybody else????? Dont ever do that. Think of this : intends to cause emotional distress. SPAMMERS do give me this feeling!

Think. Think. Act