Design Brief

What Is Cyber bullying?
Cyber bullying is 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.

How does Cyber bullying work?
Direct Attacks: Messages sent directly by the victim
1. Web sites
2. Interactive gaming
3. Impersonation blogs
4. Internet polling
5. Stealing passwords sending picture through e-mail and cell phones
6. Sending inappropriate and others junk e-mail and IMs internet polling
7. Sending pictures through e-mail and cell phone
8. Instant messages/Text messaging harassment
9. Blogs
10. Sending malicious codes

Proxy Attacks: Getting someone else to do the dirty work for the attacker.
When someone gets a hold of the victim's password and personal on-line
accounts and does or says something bad to some or all of the victim's friends
pretending to be the victim.

Why does Cyber bullying happen?
The most common reasons why cyber bullying happens is due the attacker
being motivated anger, revenge or frustration. Unfortunately sometimes it is
because they think it's funny and want to be amused.

Why do kids cyberbully each other?
Who knows why kids do anything? When it comes to cyberbullying, they are
often motivated by anger, revenge, or frustration.

Statistics http://www.isafe.org/
42% of kids have been bullied while online. One in four has had it happen more
than once.
35% of kids have been threatened online. Nearly one in five had had it happen
more than once.
21% of kids have received mean or threatening e-mails or other messages.
58% of kids admit someone has said mean or hurtful things to them online.
More than four out of ten say it has happened more than once.
58% have not told their parents or an adult about something mean or hurtful
that happened to them online.

How can Cyber bullying be prevented?
Keep your home computers in easily viewable place such as the kitchen and
living room. Talk regularly with your child about on-line activities they are
involved in. Talk specifically about cyber bullying and encourage your child to
tell you immediately if he or she is the victim of cyber bullying, or cyber
stalking.
Be careful where you post personal information- By cutting down the number of
peoople who have access to your contact infromaion about your interests or
habits. You limit your expouser to bullies that you do not know. This may
reduce your risk of becoming a victim and make it easier to identify the bully if
you are victimized.

A 2006 survey by Harris Interactive reported: 43% of U.S. teens having
experienced some form of cyber bullying in the past year.

Similarly, a Canadian study found: 23% of middle-schoolers surveyed had been
bullied by e-mail
35% in chat rooms
41% by text messages on their cell phones

51% of preteen but only 35% of teenagers who had been cyber bullied had told
their parents about their experiences
only 9% of teenagers who had been cyberbullied had told a teacher.
72% of teenagers had been cyberbullied have tolod a friend
35% of teenagers who have been cyberullied have told a brother or sister.
16% of teenagers who had been cyberbullied have told no one.

Online Polls

Again, almost 93 per cent of children use the internet.

Imagine seeing yourself the subject of an online vote to see if your friends and
your peers think that you are the 'biggest geek' or the 'sluttiest girl'.
It is so easy for a bully to do, yet so destructive to the victims involved,
especially the person who gets the most votes.