Cyberbullying and Trolling

• Cyberbullying is when someone uses social media to deliberatley harm someone else
• Cyberbullying involves trying to intimidate or insult someone , or trying to humiliate or defame them (damage their reputation)
• Cyberbullying can cause serious distress - people have been driven to suicide because of these attacks
• Trolling is when someone tries to cause public arguments with someone online
• A troll may take part in a political discussion online , but only to make statements which would frustrate the other members of the discussion
• Trolls cause public arguments for their own amusement or to gain attention
• Problems like cyberbullying and trolling may be a result of the anonymity that the Internet gives people - They say things online that they wouldn't say if talking to someone face-to-face
• The internet has made it easier for children to access inappropriate material (e.g., pornography, drugs and gambling)
• Parents and schools can use parental-control-software to try and stop children from seeing inappropriate material
• Sexting involves sending sexually explicit images or messages to other people
• Sexting is more common as smartphones and video messaging applications have become more popular
• Sexting can be dangerous as the person recieving these images may not be trustworthy
• Sexting is dangerous as social media allows the person who recieves the images to forward someone else's images to anyone they want - There are now laws which try to prevent this