No one likes a bully but now we have Cyber bullies? My space and others like are aiding this how to stop?

Question

We had a young girl in my daughters school try to commit suicide because of a my space blog, then my daughter had the same type of thing happen to her. My daughter got mad and took it to school but the principle has said there is nothing they can do. NOW I AM MAD. Any suggestions? I know that the legislators are trying but even then I think we as parents need to except the responsiblty of are childrens actions and monitor them more closely when They are on the Net!

Answer 1

I agree and, contrary to many people's credo, you can NOT simply log off and run away from the issue...and I'm a Masters in Information Systems (IT) so I've seen nearly every trick in the book.
Someone can post a myspace page, EVEN a permanent fake profile impersonating the person they are bullying, mail it to half the school, and start a chain of rumors and harrassment that make concentrating at everything else at school (social experiences, grades, teamwork, etc.) infinitely tougher. They can also spread rumors via IM regardless of whether the offendee is "blocked" or "logged off".

My response to the principal would be, YES YOU CAN DO SOMETHING. Simply put, if a student finds an offending myspace page, for example, send an e-mail to myspace requesting they take down the site and record who has been accessing it. And, if more "impersonation" pages are put up (and identified by MySpace as coming from the same person), tell the principal to request MySpace ban the user from the site and, ideally, to trace the IP down to a person so that offender can be suspended from the school (all parents should be noted this watch would be in effect so parents will, as you said, be forced to take responsibility for their kids' actions and SHOULD, as you said, watch over their kid's online activities (with the help of software like key-loggers that track all keypressed their kids make on their PCs) to aid in reporting to sites like myspace and yahoo).
Sending all these e-mails shouldn't take the principal more than 15-30 minutes. Same goes if your daughter hears people are IM'ing nasty rumors about her around the school...except in this case AOL or Yahoo, for example, should be notified and sent screen shots of the IMs as evidence.

When people get bullied on the job, any good manager will review the evidence and take action to reconcile the working enviroment. Same goes with school. Best luck with your campaign I'm hopeful it will have quite an impact.

Answer 2

i think of cyber bullying is a severe subject in this international. i think of its easily basically as undesirable as bullying at school/paintings because of the fact words do harm, despite if its reported on your face or on the pc. And no I even have in no way been cyber bullied, yet i nonetheless experience strongly against it.

Answer 3

Jesus these kids have to learn that they can make the so called "Cyber Bullies" go away by turning off the computer. These little teen girls get so worked up about myspace. The solution to this problem is for immature teenage girls to not use myspace.

Answer 4

Some of the things they are doing are illegal. I've heard of this. And it makes me sick. If they did that to my child once it'd be the last time they did it.