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In our first video on cyberbullying get a general overlook of what this series of videos will offer.
In this video from our cyberbullying course, learn that the perfect cyber crime isn't so perfect afterall.
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In this video from our cyberbullying course, learn all about how to deal with cyberbullying when you are the victim.
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- 00:00
Thank you We sneak in cyberbullying Allah shmoop how to
- 00:06
deal with being cyber bullied let's say you get an
- 00:10
email from some unknown address telling you to choke on
- 00:14
the barrel of a handgun Okay pretty sick but you
- 00:17
figure it's just one of those random spam things like
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- 00:20
from the king of nigeria who really needs your financial
- 00:23
advice So you ignore it but then you get the
- 00:26
same thing texted to your cellphone Some twisted individual is
- 00:30
messing with you You specifically same thing gets posted on
- 00:34
your facebook wall and you even get a photo of
- 00:37
yourself photo shop so it looks like you've got a
- 00:40
gun in your mouth Still you let it go But
- 00:43
a week later there's some story on the news about
- 00:45
some kid who is getting threatening messages and he ended
- 00:49
up killing himself by sticking a gun in his mouth
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It could be a coincidence but deep down you know
- 00:56
it isn't nice job letting mr nutjob carry on his
- 00:59
important work How's sleeping at night working out for you
- 01:03
this week Well here's the good news for anyone who
- 01:05
reports a cyber bully you're not a snitch in the
- 01:08
mob if someone is bullying you online and you tell
- 01:12
someone about it you are not a snitch When you
- 01:14
were younger you got flagged for tattle in your sister's
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not going extra cookie after dinner and you tattled to
- 01:19
your parents blah blah when a serious and repeatable crime
- 01:23
is being committed It isn't tattle ing it's reporting your
- 01:27
saving someone else Isn't there a social responsibility We have
- 01:31
to protect each other on this planet Have we grown
- 01:33
that large as a country that we don't have atleast
- 01:36
an obligation to be responsible the one another There is
- 01:39
no tattle ing on ly communication intended to help not
- 01:44
harm So now take that sense of personal obligation to
- 01:47
your brothers and sisters on this earth and apply it
- 01:50
to cyber bullying Little trudy tompkins gets repeatedly harassed by
- 01:54
the same bully for over a year death threats in
- 01:58
an inbox Rumors spread online about her having a congenital
- 02:01
twin removed from her neck at birth Lovely pictures posted
- 02:05
on her facebook wall Okay true Just got a few
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options Well let's See what's behind door number one Do
- 02:10
nothing Keep it inside Everything is awesome Sounds like a
- 02:14
great plan We can already see the therapy bills Door
- 02:18
number two Tell her best friend Well telling your friend
- 02:22
might not do much since they're not a responsible adult
- 02:26
and there might even be a backfire risk here Her
- 02:28
friend told everyone in the school and well now others
- 02:32
air harassing her for being a whiny baby and it's
- 02:35
just tick the bully off So now the bullying escalates
- 02:38
Great job friend Or alternatively that friend has the key
- 02:42
to daddy's gun collection and one day decides she needs
- 02:45
some vigilante target practice now to door number three Tell
- 02:50
her parents Well this is a good option if trudy's
- 02:52
parents are the responsible proactive type But in trudy's case
- 02:57
she tells your mom does your mom even believe her
- 03:00
That he's also behind door number three But trudy's dad
- 03:04
drinks and has a nasty temper No telling what he
- 03:07
might do Oh and a big gun collection don't want
- 03:10
that How about door number four Tell a teacher boom
- 03:15
that does the trick Her teacher is likely emotionally disengaged
- 03:19
and will not go nuts or react irrationally So the
- 03:22
teacher contacts the law enforcement people they tracked down her
- 03:25
Bully and he's out of her life or at least
- 03:27
the consequences get massively severe if he now re enters
- 03:32
All right what about door number five Five little works
- 03:35
go directly to the cops They're not going to ignore
- 03:37
the bowling stuff Not anymore They've seen it go south
- 03:41
too many times knowing where to go to report Bowling
- 03:44
is just a cz important is reporting it at all
- 03:47
Tell someone who has a clue but if trudy goes
- 03:49
with door number one and doesn't tell anyone on the
- 03:52
bull you'll simply swooped down on other victims Make dozens
- 03:55
of other people miserable make it lead to a suicide
- 03:58
or two house keeping a low profile working out for
- 04:01
you now trudy Well if you want something like that
- 04:04
down your head go ahead and keep it a secret
- 04:07
Stay all safe and protected in your little private cocoon
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but unless you have really crappy parents and teachers they'll
- 04:12
have your back The bully will be caught and punished
- 04:15
and if they get punished severely or often enough or
- 04:17
both well they might just get the hint Start leaving
- 04:20
people the heck alone and our guess is that society
- 04:23
Will soon have zero tolerance laws for this stuff you
- 04:26
get caught bullying in his permanent record Good luck getting
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that job you always wanted All right So when should
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you report a cyber bully Well okay there's A line
- 04:36
drawn here If you're chatting on a facebook thread and
- 04:38
you say my dad told me that santa was really
- 04:42
and then melanie from your brit lit class responds by
- 04:45
saying your dad is an idiot that is not cyber
- 04:48
bullying In fact you may want to listen to this
- 04:50
kid Sounds like she knows what's up But if melanie
- 04:53
tracked you down to the website you were on followed
- 04:55
you from one room to another and told you and
- 04:57
everyone else that your dad was an idiot kind of
- 04:59
out of the blue Maybe said he was a klansman
- 05:02
who's looking for crosses to burn and then gives your
- 05:05
home address Well then yeah she's a cyber bully who
- 05:09
needs to be stopped And you're the only one who
- 05:11
can stop her Which sort of makes you a little
- 05:13
bit of superman You have to ask yourself what's the
- 05:15
worst That can happen if i report a bully You
- 05:18
tell your dad hey dad This jerk from school's been
- 05:21
hounding me on social media sites and keep saying offensive
- 05:24
things to me and your dad says so What Grow
- 05:27
a pair Well yeah not the reaction you were open
- 05:29
for Well you're right back where you started Now what's
- 05:34
the best that can happen when you report a bully
- 05:36
You you tell your dad and he takes action alerts
- 05:38
law enforcement or teachers or somebody important And they tracked
- 05:42
down the bully bully gets expelled maybe even some time
- 05:45
in juvie pulling parts on his record And if he's
- 05:47
caught a second time it's jail hard time to get
- 05:51
some help Maybe some positive reinforcement Maybe he sees the
- 05:55
error of his ways Maybe he stopped fooling people Yeah
- 06:00
well somewhere in southern indiana there's Some poor frail hearted
- 06:03
girl Who's still alive because of you You may never
- 06:06
know how you save that life but it could really
- 06:09
happen Okay have away the upside and downside Enough here
- 06:13
Easy call right Yeah So now that you've decided not
- 06:16
to sit on your hands well what steps do you
- 06:19
take when dealing with a bully Well first thing do
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Not respond Cut off all communication finito Block him If
- 06:27
you can don't delete what they sent you Keep that
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stuff is evidence Next whatever site you're on when you
- 06:33
got bullied Well they probably have a place for you
- 06:35
to click here or here and report him Let him
- 06:39
know you're being bullied bad for their rep if they
- 06:41
let it continue so they'll probably boot that player off
- 06:44
the site Finally tell a trusted adult your parents a
- 06:48
teacher If you've been getting threatened with physical violence bring
- 06:51
in the law enforcement Those guys were just busy directing
- 06:54
traffic and eating doughnuts anyway right guys we're just kidding
- 06:58
We love you What if you tell someone you've been
- 07:07
cyber bullied and they do call you a snitch If
- 07:10
you report a bully what are the chances they'll come
- 07:13
after you for reporting them How do you know if
- 07:16
someone is a good person to tell what's an example
- 07:20
of something that's not quite cyberbullying but is close to
- 07:24
cyber bullying Is it a good idea to report a
- 07:27
belief directly to law enforcement even if the bully hasn't
- 07:30
threatened you physically How's Sleeping at night working out for 00:07:37.133 --> [endTime] you this week
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