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Cyber Bullying Practical Tips for Victims and Bystanders

Goals• Practical Prevention Tips•Password Safety

•Manage your settings in Facebook•Lie to your BF/GF!

• Practical Reporting Tips•To website•To school•To police

Class Poll•Open up Internet Explorer•Click on “Favorites” and select “Socrative”•Enter in the room number 221adams

Password Safety•Never give out your password • (except to a parent/guardian)

•Already gave it out? Make a new one•Use 8 characters including a number, symbol, and capital letter•Use the first letter of a sentence

Password Safety

• For example•I Really like learning about cyberbullying everyday becomes…

•!Rllac3• Try it! • Show it to a neighbor

Really? You showed it to someone?!!!

Facebook Safety

• Protect yourself from•Bullies•Creepers•“Friends”•Future problems•???

Custom Privacy• Make posts

visible to your actual friends• Create a list• “Make this visible to”• “Specific People”

• Hide posts• Create a list if you can’t just unfriend them

Friends (Or “Friends”) Lists

• Lists allow you to control exactly who sees what

Avoiding Unwanted Contact

• Only friends need to be able to contact you• “Friends of Friends” might overlap

Timeline and Tagging

• Take control of who can post on and view your timeline

• Review which posts and pictures you’re tagged in

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Audience Override

• New friends don’t always need to see your old stuff

Duh.

When All Else Fails…

• There’s no shame in blocking a jerk once in a while

• Don’t be afraid to report abusive behavior

Another less effective option

Sexting

• Think of worst person to see picture•They will most likely see it

•Getting pressure to send something? •Tell them your parents use MobileSpy, FlexiSpy or Mobistealth to monitor your use

Reporting to school

• Detective Balough recommends keeping it in school first• Document the abuse•Save text messages•Print out Facebook or other pages•Copy URLs (web addresses)

Reporting to school

• Copy and paste images into PowerPoint if possible• Use Snipping Tool or click Control and PrtSc

keys on keyboard (F14 key on these computers)• Look for PrtSc button on keyboard on PC• Press Command-shift-3 on a MAC• Copy URL of any websites

• Bring everything in to Mr. Arty• Let’s try it!

Reporting Tips – To a Website

• Don’t know their address, or it was a more serious offense?• Go to Cybertipline.com•Enter report•Goes right tolaw enforcement

Reporting Tips – To a Website

•Know their email address? Report it to abuse@[isp].com. •Replace ISP with AOL, Gmail, Verizon or whatever comes after the @ symbol.

In Conclusion

• Prevent Bullying•Use strong, secret passwords

•Only share with friends on Facebook• Just don’t sext

• Practical Reporting Tips•To school•To police•To website

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