If you are being cyber bullied online, who would you tell and why?

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Answer 1

Tell your parents or a teacher or anyone you trust. You should probably tell the school too if you have to. They would know how to handle the situation. Is it someone you actually know from school or something? If any case, you should ignore this person, do not give out any personal information including your email. Block this person and report it to the website you are using.

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We had this thing where some people came to our school to show use how to deal with bullying.

Answer 2

Cyber bullying doesn't effect me too much. Anyone tries to be mean and/or vindictive to me over the internet, I am a master of sarcasm and have wit as sharp as the devils tongue.
Anything bigger, I just use my good friend the delete button. Works every time.

Really, who cares what some idiots on the internet say? They only use this median, because their own lives have been judged to be so insignificant in the real world to count for anything.

Answer 3

I'd tell the person who's cyberbullying me to piss off and get a life.

And then I'd go and tell my friends about this noob who was trying to start something over the internet...

Answer 4

I'd tell my mum. Just because I know she would be the only one to take it seriously and not get involved in Facebook fights

Answer 5

I am 11 years old and I would tell my Dad straight away, I know that I can trust him he is always their for me, once I had a horrible rummer about my best friend not liking me secretly, she then told me some mean stuff to, it was hard to tell Dad, but when I did he told me to talk to some other friends, turns out she does like me, a school girl was the one who started it so I pretend not to care, she then told me she had hacked Olivia's a.k.a, my buds, account and said all that mean stuf "sniff sniff", I already knew that but it was great and sad for her to tell me the truth, but she was in trouble...

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Please vote for me, I told you something personal!

Answer 6

being cyber bullied is no fun at all. but, as a young adult, the only people i could tell, is by reporting them to the yahoo community, and select the option "violated yahoo guidelines" button.

Answer 7

EVERYBODY I TALK TO AND THEN SOME!!! The police,the DA,and
family,friends,school officials,church membership. Then I'd get a forensic computer expert to track the sucker down and point him/her/
them out to the world.

Answer 8

I've been cyber bullied a lot in the past. I haven't been now but I always get worried when I log onto the computer if there is someone who is about to cyber bully me. I never told anyone, not until the teachers found out and so I had to tell them what had happened. However if I were to tell someone I'd tel my mum because she is someone i can tell everything to. I see her a as a strong person who i can look up on.

Answer 9

It depends on the website, and if it was really bad I would email the administrators/owners of the website to take action. It has happened to me before, and it was on this very website (yahoo answers) - I emailed other users which I knew were worthy users of this website to help and prevent this person from posting further questions/answers against me. They all emailed me back with positive responses, that they would help report any nonsense posted and stand up for me.

Telling a person in real life does not really do anything. They do not understand, they are not there to witness the bullying since they dont use the website (unless you know a person that does).

Answer 10

I was in an online club and a guy who knows a lot about computers started trying to date a married woman. He didn't want to take NO for an answer. So I told him off, and he started coming after me.

He pretended to be me and insulted my friends, sent lots of stupid emails, and tried to get me kicked off some sites.

Others he hacked got the FBI onto him, that's how weird it got.

I copied and saved some things with the "Full Header" that helped get evidence against him

Answer 11

I wrote to a moderator of a forum about some abuse directed at me personally; it went on and it was from a couple of users. I directed them to look at threads where it was occurring, the whole conversation, and I think they wrote to the user/s via their email address and after that the forum was closed down because it was being used inappropriately (ie due to that personal verbal abuse, which by the way, the abuser/s seemed to enjoy).

No excuse for anyone to take this out on anyone else.

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Cricket forum a few years ago.

Answer 12

This has been something bugging me for a while. Who gives a f*k if you get cyber bullied? honestly. They're the most cowerdly people out there. It seems that cyber bullying is more concerned than anything even though there's people at schools that get bashed for no reason.

Answer 13

I don't know if I'd tell anyone - cyber bullying can be easy to escape. All you really need to do is block the bullies email address, delete the bully from MSN and ensure that your MySpace profile is set to private.

I guess if you can't escape the bullying, talk to someone you trust - like a school counsellor or teacher, or family and friends.

Answer 14

i would tell cops or somebody that could do something about it because it is illegal to cyberbully.

Answer 15

I would tell me bestie and my parents

Answer 16

i think one of the worst things people/young people can do is tell their parents, because they either won't understand, laugh and won't take it seriously, or they'll never let them back on the internet, and the internet is needed for all sorts of things, like homework/assignments, facebook/friends, and there are games we play that help ease our minds. i think the best thing that you can do if you're being cyber bullied, is gather up a group of people who are being cyber bullied because there's so many out there, and make a formal complaint. perhaps get down the names of the people who are cyber bullying as well, and keep records of every conversation to show as evidence, to create more of an awareness of how bad it does get, because at the moment, it doesn't seem to be taken seriously. one'd also need more people behind it. the more people behind it, the more the media will come on it, and the more it will become publicized enough to be taken seriously

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witness to cyber bullying. one thing people have to realise is that it doesn't matter how much you try to defend yourself against them, they will never back down, and will continue to harass and throw insults, and swear, and threaten, all for the thrill of it. if they are not stopped, the numbers will continue to grow, and rapidly.

Answer 17

Tell a loved one a friend or someone you trust. Tell your school and report it to a website that takes care of cyber-bullying. I would tell these people because I would want the bullying to stop.

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Personal experience

Answer 18

Likely I wouldn't tell anyone. The thing about the internet is that you can avoid pretty much everything; if someone is being rude to you, you block them, or avoid them, or report them to the moderators of the website. If someone is actively stalking and verbally abusing you, then that might a good time to tell your parents, assuming you live with them. If they try to avoid the block, you can try to get their IP address blocked or simply disappear: change your username and make sure they can't find out your new one.

Answer 19

I'm trying to be realistic here, and I guess I'll get a lot of thumbs down, but..

Well, I wouldn't tell anyone.. friends, yes, if I have good ones. What can teachers and parents do? Especially parents? Many parents will probably just ban you from the computer or supervise things, like making you delete your msn account. That doesn't do anything, but makes things worse. Other parents will just tell you to ignore it because they're 'just words'.
I'm not lying, here's how the convo will go with my parents:
Me: Mum/Dad, someone keeps hurting me and making me feel miserable on the internet
Them: Who gives a sh*t, people are out there starving, and you're crying over the internet? Get a life. It's good they are, so you can study more. You have exams soon. Go study.

Teachers can only do things if the bully is someone from the school, they can give them detention or talk to their parents at most. That's it. The bully is just going to make it worse. Teachers are terrible, because they honestly don't understand and think it's just hormones and childs play. In my early childhood, teachers always laughed at me because of the way I looked and my race. They don't know sh*t. They can't understand anything.
All I do, if I get cyberbullied (and I do) all I do is just shrug it if and not care, leaving them to feel embaressed. I'm witty and I charge back, because I can be very mean if i want to. I always insult back, it's no good in real life, but ont he internet, charging back is good.

Answer 20

My school teachers, I love them all so much. They are understanding and are very patient with me. They deserve a reward for great understanding :)

Answer 21

I wouldn't care.

Come on, its just the internet. It's not like he'll bully you in real life.

Answer 22

cyber bullies are cowards who feel bigger behind a screen. I wouldnt tell anyone, Id make the bully cry to his/her momma with confident brave words. however, for kids tell your parents, teachers or older sibling.

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myself.

Answer 23

Don't be a *****, suck it up grow some balls... and ignore it... nobody likes a little tattle tale... if anything you'll just get it even worse the next time he does it

Answer 24

This is an issue that has been occurring to my 12 year old for the past couple of days while she has been home sick from school. While as an adult we can just ignore it, as a young girl who has to go to school with these people its not so easy to do. I think the best thing for a kid to do is tell their parents. Hopefully they are supportive and can guide them properly into what is the best action. While telling the school might be ok for some, schools are so touchy feely that they tend to do nothing but give a 'talk' and then the kid gets it even worse. In my situation my daughter has blocked the sites and is looking forward to fronting the little weed who is making stuff up about her on Monday. My daughter came to me because she was very upset. she knew too that i don't tolerate this sort of stuff and helped her in dealing with the situation without getting directly involved.

Answer 25

Probably mum or my sister, someone who was sure to take it seriously and help me figure out what to do

Answer 26

Well, I've never been cyber bullied online, but if I was, I'ld tell the bullies to go to hell, block them from facebook, msn, etc. and probabely tell some friends that they're dickheads so that they'd get a bad reputation.
I might tell the school if they go to t he same one as me, but only if it was necessary. what happens outside of school is none of the school's business, so they shouldn't have to get involve unless its absolutely necessarily.

Answer 27

No one.

I deserve it anyway.

Answer 28

i really wouldnt care because its not like they hurt you or anything

Answer 29

parents/or and teachers

because they would know what to do

Answer 30

this is a question that is not worth an answer. it is just another example of our so-called government trying to hide the facts from us.