Beware of Cyber Bullying
Due to Covid pandemic now more people are utilizing online transaction facilities and social media interactions. Learners are also utilizing online platform more than ever. Now its our responsiblity to make our virtual spaces safe and secure.
Virtual worlds are sometimes polluted with cyber bullying. Cyber bullying an electronic attack. cyber bullying is bullying online. We should be aware of identifying and protecting overselves against the dangerous techniques of cyberattack widely used in our social spaces.
i.Harassement: Target is personally insulted online.
ii.Fraping: publishing the distored photos of the victimes to humiliate the target.
iii.Exclusion: leaving someone out deliberately.
iv.Doxing (Outing) :revealing privacy with out consent.
v.Trickery: deceptively abusing the trust of the victim.
vi.Stalking: following the victim and attacking.
vii.Masquerading: made up profile with fake identity is created to bully.
viii.Dissing: spraeding cruel information about their target through public posts and messages by the bully to ruin the reputation of the victim.
ixFlaming: Posting about or directly sending insults and profanity to their targets.
x.Trolling: It need not be a cybercrime in normal cases. but only when posting inflamatory comments online with malicious and harmful intention trolling becomes cyber bullying.
Say 'No' to Bullying
Bullying causes significant emotional and psychological distress. The victim feel overwhelmed, powerless, humiliated, worthless, vengeful, disinterested, isolated, depressed and sometimes physically sick and in extreme cases even scuicidal. Bullying is not a joke but a serious punishable offence. In the educational institutions, bullying (ragging) is prohibitted through working of antiragging cells and Anti bullying Laws.
Bullying never happens in isolation. It actually reflect the socio- cultural ambience of the socity. We should be able to diagnose such social symptoms in advance and cure them to avoid spreading a culture of violence, attack and rape.
"Treat others the way you would want to be teated" is the maxim of Anti Bullying Helpline India. a charitable organization. Let us be get sensetized to the issues of online bullying and be empowered to protect ourselves from such malicious attacks. let's make our social and virtual spaces more safe and secure for a better future.
Reference:
Securly.(2018).Retrieved from blog.securly.com
Anti Bullying Helpline India
