Cyber bullying is similar to other types of bullying, except it takes place online and through text messages sent to cell phones. Cyber bullies can be classmates, online acquaintances, and even anonymous users, but most often they do know their victims.

1. What kids and
parents should
know

3. What is Cyber Bullying?
Cyber bullying is similar to other types of
bullying, except it takes place online and
through text messages sent to cell phones.
Cyber bullies can be classmates, online
acquaintances, and even anonymous users, but
most often they do know their victims.

4. Where Does Cyber Bullying Take Place?
Cyber bullying is bullying that takes place
using electronic devices such as:
• Communication tools like
social media sites
(FACEBOOK), text
messages, chat lines …
and more
• Cell phones
• Computers
• Tablets
• And websites

5. Some examples of ways kids bully
online:
• Sending someone mean or threatening emails,
instant messages, or text messages
• Excluding someone from an instant messenger
buddy list or blocking their email for no reason
• Tricking someone into revealing personal or
embarrassing information and sending it to others
• Breaking into someone's email or instant message
account to send cruel or untrue messages while
posing as that person
• Creating websites to make fun of another person
such as a classmate or teacher
• Using websites to rate peers as prettiest, ugliest, etc.

6. Common Forms of Cyber Bullying
Trolling – sending or posting hostile messages
intended to “inflame” the emotions of others
Happy-Slapping – recording someone being
harassed or bullied in a way that usually involves
physical abuse, then posting the video online for
public viewing
Photo shopping – doctoring digital images so
that the main subject is placed in a compromising
or embarrassing situation

7. Identity Theft / Impersonation – stealing
someone’s password and/or hijacking their
online accounts to send or post incriminating or
humiliating pictures, videos, or information
Physical Threats – sending messages that
involve threats to a person’s physical safety
Rumor Spreading – spreading gossip through
e-mail, text messaging, or social networking
sites
More Common Forms of Cyber Bullying

8. Is your child being cyber bullied?
Tips for Parents
• Avoids the computer, cell phone, and other technological
devices or appears stressed when receiving an e-mail,
instant message, or text
• Withdraws from family and friends or acts reluctant to
attend school and social events
• Avoids conversations about computer use
• Exhibits signs of low self-esteem including depression
and/or fear
• Has declining grades, poor eating or sleeping habits

9. How to STOP a Cyber Bully
TIPS for students

10. Learn to recognize cyber bullying.
Cyber bullying is when technology is abused to
harm others by repeat attacks and threats.
Instead of physical abuse, cyber bullying is
usually used to inflict emotion pain and to
degrade a person or group of people.

11. Figure out when the cyber bullying began
and the cause.
Maybe you started out as friends and they
turned on you. Maybe you have become
unfriendly to them without knowing it,
prompting them to lash out on you.

12. Ignore the bully.
Don't give them attention for being ugly.
Remember that all types of bullies want the
attention. Do not give them the attention they
are hungry for, this will just cause them to
continue to harass you.

13. Block the bully.
This can make it easier for you to ignore them.
They may become upset because you blocked
them, but they'll soon get over it.
• Don't continue to read their posts once you
block them. This will only make you upset
and more likely to retaliate.

14. Tell a trusted adult, parent, or teacher, as this
will give you an outside perspective to
support you.

15. Don't delete the messages. If this continues,
you will need proof to prove you are being cyber
bullied. Save them to your computer and be
sure to print out all messages. Do not only print
the mean ones, print the conversation to show
someone the proof of how the discussion turned
into a fight and bullying fest!

16. Deactivate social networking accounts and
change your email address and/or cell
phone numbers if the bullying persists.
Sometimes the best way to end the bullying is
to stop any contact they can make with you.

17. Report the person. Tell a parent, your
principal, or in severe cases, the police. If this
person is someone you know, sometimes all
they need to stop is interference from their
school.
• Report it to the website. Their accounts can
be blocked if they are reported often by
different people.

18. Don't retaliate (get even with them), you may
find yourself in an even worse position. You'll
just anger them more, therefore leading to more
bullying. You could even be just as at fault as
they are if you also cyber bully them.

19. Cyber Bullying Prevention Tips

20. http://www.parl.gc.ca/Content/SEN/Committee/411/ridr/rep/Cy
berBullyingParentGuide-e.pdf
A guide for parents from the Standing Senate
Committee on Human Rights
Senate of Canada