What is Bullying?
- Bullying is unwanted, aggressive behaviour.
- Involves one person feeling less powerful, smaller, or not as important.
- The behaviour is done again and again or it can be done again and again.
Three types of bullying
- With words - teasing, name calling, rude or sexual comments, threatening to hurt you or someone else you care for or your things.
- Social bullying - leaving someone out on purpose, spreading rumours, or changing the way someone thinks about you.
- Physical bullying - hurting your body or things.
Differences between bullying and Cyberbullying
Bullying
- Face to Face
- Can find a safe space or escape
- Limited to onlookers
- Bully can be identified
- Can see facial and body reaction of target and onlookers
- Limited to the immediate space around you
Cyberbullying
- 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days per year
- No safe space, completely surrounded
- Shared by a wide audience - can go viral in a matter of seconds
- Bully can be anonymous
- Harder to empathize with the target
- No geographical limitations - world wide
What do I do if I am bullied online?
- Talk about it. Have your parents, teacher or an adult you trust help
- Never do it back
- Save the evidence
- Block the bullies
- Report it to the content provider
- Never pass along messages from a bully
- Call the police 519-570-9777 and make a report
- It's OK not to like someone. It's not OK to bully them.
- If you see something online that's meant to hurt someone, don't "like" or share it. Think about how you'd feel if someone did that to you.
- If someone cyberbullies you, you may want to send a mean comment back, but it could make this worse. Instead, save the evidence and report it.
- Being a good digital citizen means standing up for others. Take steps to help peers being cyberbullied (Ex: post nice comments, sit with them at lunch, report the harassment, etc.).
Never feel like you have to respond to a message. It is ok to not respond.
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