Consulta Jove: CYBERBULLYING

The issue of violence among young people is a very relevant issue and more present than many of us would like. Recently in the newspaper I read a case of an American boy whom his roommate had recorded while having sex with another boy and put the recordings around the university, a situation that caused him to commit suicide by jumping a bridge and now the stalker is accused of homicide. On the internet we have enough information about more and more young people who commit suicide due to these two types of violence:

El bullying It is a kind of violence that, according to professor of psychology Rosario Ortega is defined as "Unjustified phenomenon of interpersonal violence exercised by a person or group against their peers and having effects of victimization recipient. It is structurally an abuse of power among equals ". It is not exclusive to the school environment, although it is this area where researchers have studied more.

El ciberbullying It is when such means are used as mobile phone, internet or online games to psychologically harass an equal among minors. If adults involved is no longer called that, but cyberbullying.

According to a survey network EU Kids OnlineFunded by the European CommissionWhich has analyzed the ciberbullying among other online risks for children, it has found that in Spain the 15% of Spanish Internet users have felt annoyed or upset about something that happened on the Internet. And a 4% of Spanish children between 9 and 16 years claim to have suffered cyberbullying. Several examples:

• Leave offensive comments in forums or participate in chats usurping the personality of the victim, so then the others go against him.
• Giving your mail or mobile phone in various places so you can call them strangers, for example I remember a case that put a girl's photo and her phone on a dating page.
• Hang on Internet photos or videos compromised or photomontages, or various intimacies and publish it among his friends.
• Enlist the person putting his picture on a website where you try to vote for the person in a pejorative and give many points to be the one to win (the fattest, the ugliest, the most pigheaded).
• Create a fake profile on behalf of victims in different social networks or forums where you write your name in different things, for example, seeking sexual contacts, giving your data.
• Get your email key and read your mail, answer on your behalf or change the password so that the owner can not access.
• Virtual communities or chats that have a moderator, causing the victim to get it explodes and then report it to expel the person from.
• To circulate rumors about the victim to others without contrast with the truth, it will create and run voice and admonishing or harassing the victim.
• Threatening through the mail or message to the mobile
• Harassing the victim in places where it relates internet ..

Ten basic tips against cyberbullying (see www.ciberbullying.net)

1. Do not respond to provocations, ignore them. Count to one hundred and think about something else.

2. Behave politely on the Web. Use the Netiquette.

3. If they disturb you, quit the connection and ask for help.

4. no facilites personal data. You will feel more protected / a.

5. Do not do on the Web what you would not do in the face.

6. If you are harassed, keep testing.

7. When hassled by using an online service, ask for help to his manager / a.

8. Do not think you're quite sure / to the other side of the screen.

9. He warns that the abuser is committing a crime.

10. If there are serious threats for help urgently.