This type of virtual bullying has found an easy development thanks to all the new forms of communication, such as social networks, forums, chats and other messaging services.
This phenomenon is growing rapidly, especially among the very young. Research conducted by Save The Children says that three out of ten kids engage in violent behavior online, with as many as 72% of teenagers seeing this social phenomenon as the most dangerous at the moment.
The number of these poor victims is constantly increasing and these boys are often targeted for various reasons, such as their presumed sexual orientation, romantic relationships, physical appearance and way of dressing.
This type of virtual bullying has found an easy development thanks to all the new forms of communication, such as social networks, forums, chats and other messaging services.
This phenomenon is growing rapidly, especially among the very young. Research conducted by Save The Children says that three out of ten kids engage in violent behavior online, with as many as 72% of teenagers seeing this social phenomenon as the most dangerous at the moment.
The number of these poor victims is constantly increasing and these boys are often targeted for various reasons, such as their presumed sexual orientation, romantic relationships, physical appearance and way of dressing.
Cyberbullying or online bullying is characterized by
Intrusiveness: you will always find the cyberbully on the various technologies used.
Anonymity: possibility of hiding behind nicknames. This option offers online bullies an extra weapon to attack their victims.
The breadth of reach: a very high transmission power, messages are transmitted and retransmitted and amplified beyond the circle.
The minimization: almost all the attacks are labeled as “it was just a joke”.
Diffusion of responsibility: It’s not my fault, everyone was doing it, I just posted a message, I didn’t do anything.
There are differences between bullying and cyberbullying. Bullies are usually classmates of the poor victim, bullying is limited to a certain environment, usually the school one. Cyberbullies, on the other hand, are children or even adults who can operate from any part of the world, being online there is no limit. The cyberbully can act over a very large territory being online and can act at any time of the day.
bullies are students, classmates, or institute mates, known to the victim.
cyberbullies can be anonymous. Or they may pretend to be anonymous and solicit the inclusion of other anonymous “friends”, so that the person is often not even aware of the identity of those with whom they are interacting. Bullying actions are usually told to other students in the school in where the events occurred but, in any case, remain in fact quite limited.
cyberbullying material can be spread around the world.
in bullying it is easy to find a medium disinhibition prompted by the dynamics of the class group and by the mechanisms of moral disengagement. The bully manages to disengage from his moral self-sanctions while managing to maintain, however, a subtle sense of integrity.
in cyberbullying there is a high level of disinhibition. Cyberbullies tend to do things online that they wouldn’t do in real life
The law provides that the minor victim of the phenomenon (if he is over 14 years old, otherwise his parents on his behalf), can ask the manager of the social media site to obscure, remove or even block the contents spread online.
If action is not taken within 48 hours, the victim can contact the Privacy Guarantor who will intervene directly within the next 48 hours.
It is also possible to pursue the path of appealing to the authority for criminal protection, on the web it is different depending on the conduct, the penalties are various and range from 6 months to 5 years for an adult and 6 months for a minor, or it is a fine of 516 euros was applied.
Don’t respond to provocative messages
Block unwanted users
Make a copy of the messages received to use for a subsequent complaint
Report the author’s content to the platform, so that they can intervene by deleting or blocking the user.
For stalking content on the internet, we can ask Google to remove it from the search engine, same request to the site manager and its hosting provider.