Wednesday 8 January 2014

Cyber bullying assignment - part 2

Part B:

1.) I would tell Teresa to keep all of her information private because anyone can find out so much personal information about you in a matter of 20 minutes. Even something as simple as putting your exact birthday and name can lead to someone figuring out your phone number and where you live.

2.) I limit my privacy settings so only friends see, but I do not use Facebook very often.

3.) You should always consider that whatever you post cannot be deleted from the entire internet, even when you think you've deleted it someone could have took a picture of your picture and they could have it forever.

Key Questions:

Who will be able to see my profile?
Am I at risk if I send this text/post this picture?
Can anyone besides my friends see this?
Even if I delete it, where will it go?
Am I sharing things about anybody else, that may not want to be in my post?
Will my post offend people?
Will my post still be here in a decade?

Monday 6 January 2014

Cyber bullying Assignment

1.) Done

2.a.) Quoted from the article. "Cyberbullying is when a child, preteen or teen is tormented, threatened, harassed, humiliated, embarrassed or otherwise targeted 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. Once adults become involved, it is plain and simple cyber-harassment or cyberstalking. Adult cyber-harassment or cyberstalking is never called cyberbullying."

b.) The kind of threat, the frequency of the threats, the source of the threats and the nature of the threats

c.) The first thing that I would do if I was stuck in a situation like this would be to tell someone that I trust for example: teacher, mother, brother. One thing that I would make sure I did before I blocked the cyber bully/ harasser is to save the chat log and gather all of the information that was passed along to me so that I have evidence. I would not want to retaliate because it could possibly make things worse.

d.) Everyone has different reasons as to why they cyber bully, most kids cyber bully each other because they are often motivated by anger, revenge or frustration. It is much easier to cyber bully with technology because they are not affected by the physical reaction of whom you are bullying over the internet.

e.) The two main categories of cyber bullying are cyber bullying by proxy and direct attacks.

f.) I think that Instant Messaging/Text Messaging Harassment, Internet Polling and Stealing passwords are the most serious types of cyber bullying.