Wednesday 29 October 2008

Cyberbullying


Kids are spending more and more time on computers and cell phones.

For most kids, these devices offer a fun and fast way to stay in touch with friends and family. Some, however, use e-mail and text messages to bully their peers.

This is the video we watched in class and we reflected upon it altogether.

Now I would like you to watch it with your parents and reflect with them on this issue which is affecting society more and more.

22 comments:

Anonymous said...

I think it is not really nice for people to bully you. I wouldn't like people to bully me neither. There has to a stop somehow.

Marcos

Miss Ale said...

Marcos have you already shared this video with your parents?

Anonymous said...

Miss Ale...
Poor boy; what I could read from the mails that he received were horrible. I showed it to my sister and she liked the message the video transmited, but not what they did to that boy. What I do not understand is why are they cyberbullying because:
1- It does not make them cooler.
2- Its not funny.
3- For what?
I and my family really think that this is not nice and that we would not like someone to bully us. When the video finished they showed you different videos related to cyberbullying. They showed a victim of cyberbullying and she was been cyberbullied from a group of girls, that pretended beign a boy, and one day she got a mail saying that that boy did not exist from one of the girls. We need to avoid cyberbullying wherever we can so less people get hurt by words. If you bullied someone the only word that can make the other person happy after what you did, is... SORRY! I really liked reflecting on this video. Are we going to work on information on cyberbullying?
LET'S NOT BULLY OTHER PEOPLE. WOULD WE LIKE SOMEONE TO BULLY US?
See you tomorrow,
Valerie P.

Anonymous said...

Miss ale,
Poor boy , _I think that it is horrible to be bullied. Something should be done so that we can stop it.This way is a good one to start.In my opinion, girls are usually the ones who do this more than boys.I also belive that American and Argentine society are bringing up children are very different.Another point that my family and I would like to mensionis is that this atitudde of bullying belongs to a certain age, and that later when we grow out of this faze everything seems to go back to normal. I think that I am in tha middle of that faze and I know that I am not sopuse to do and really not wiling to bully anybody. I feel that this vidio showed me a side of life I really didn´t "know so much about" I was certenly impresed and I felt very sad for the children who decided to do such a terrible thing, and also for the ones who suffered all the bulling made to them.
see you tomorrow...
Clarita C.

Anonymous said...

helo miss ale.i think that bulling and ciber bulling is the badest think in the world if they do it to you.if someone is bullied i would said to tell an adult sow it can help you.
have a nice day.valentin.a

Anonymous said...

Miss Ale
The first time i saw this video i was really sad because it is not nice for other people to treat you that way. When i heard the word cyber bullying and what it meant i felt horrified because there are kids that do really bad things to other people that are really bad. Words can hurt much more than if they punch you sometimes. If once in youre life they say something really bad to you i think that maybe you will remember what that person said to you, What he did to you and how you felt when it happened to you. I was never cyber bullied but the experience must be horrible and i hope i never get to know how those people think. I watched this video with my parents and they said that the video was very good and that it is great for teachers to teach this to us because maybe someday that happens to us and we have to know how to react in a good way and not in a bad way. Thay were really impressed because when they were kids in their school they had never taught them about these things so many kids reacted the wrong way and suffered the consecuences. It is very good for teachers to explain us one of the things that are bad in the world and tha we can do something useful about it. I think that many people hve the opportunity to do many things to help these kids but they dont mind about it so this goes on forever. Other people really try to help but sometimes it is not enough without the support of many people. I also really liked what the video transmits to us when we see it. I hope that nobody in school gets bullied again because they will feel very bad. I also ask me sometimes how do the people that are bullying others feel when they are writing those horrible messages to other people to just hurt their feelings. I think that sometime in my life that i can help anybody i would help these people that are being cyber bullied. My parents also said that this is a good way to start with this. By knowing what it is and that we can help these people or kids that are suffering a lot and it is something that they will never forget in their life. It is like a big stain in your clothes that you cant take out but that it also hurts inside you. I think that this video will encourage many people to help others with everythig or most of everything that they need to feel better. Thank you for posting it so that i can share it with my family. See you tomorrow.

lucia V

Anonymous said...

MIss Ale
First, I would like to say that all the people that do cyberbulling are very nasty people. Why do they do this ? It doesnt make any better for anyone ! Sometimes, you do bad things because your angry with someone, but you reveal it with the wrong person. Example: If im angry with someone, its better to say it to that person and talk about it, and not to involve another person and start bulling her. ( IT was totally and example I would never do this ! )My point is, that you must talk about things, and not get angry and start making bad things to people. What happened to the boy here was very bad. Poor boy, I mean, what does it change for the person that is bulling? Does it make any better for him? And neither for the person that is being bulled. I saw a video that were one of the videos that youtube offered you as related videos, and It was about a girl that was in a talent show, she went up on the stage and starting saying really bad things to a person in the public. Everyone started looking at her. The girl was feeling very bad and sad. I mean, poor girl. She hadnt done anything, only that another girl went up on stage and starting saying things like " the family doesnt have any money so thats why she wears that horrible pinky sweater " Thats very bad, and maybe she likes that sweater. The other girl has no rights to say that to the girl, that maybe doesnt have much money, but that doesnt matter, what matters is how the person is, not what it has. I think that, as discrimination this is a very big problem. I think that It should be urgently solved. I think we must never to make cyberbulling, I mean, would you like someone to bull you? That is not right, and I hope that all the people that are being bulled can talk to someone or defend, or STAND UP as it says In the main video of the post. I think it was totally good that the boy went and talked to someone. Thats what we all should do, If anytime we get bulled, to the closest person that is there with you, to anyone, you should get help to discover who that person is and that the person gets punished for what he has done. Me and my family think that cyberbulling is very bad. My mother says that usually the person who really has the problem is the one that is doing the bulling. Before I asked my mother to come and see the video, I reflected alone and I also came to the same conclusion, that the person doing the bulling usually is angry. My mother said the person doing the bulling is an insecure person and that maybe he has many problems in his family or his life so he tries to take it out on another person that is ttotally inocent.
To conclude, I would like to say that we must never bull anyone. If someone gets bulled, you must help that person by standing up and saying something, not just keep it to yourself. Thats part of being a good friend, defending you friend. And also if YOU get bulled, standing up and dont just keep it to yourself.
See you tomorrow Miss Ale, I am very anxious to listen and meet the secundary teacher !!!
BYE BYE
OLI G

Anonymous said...

Miss Ale,
When I first saw this video I got really sad, I thought that cyber bulling or bulling is very bad and I won't like people to do it to me so I will do my best so I don't make it to others (though I think I am never going to do it but well still.)I think this video is trasmiting that Bulling others is bas and that if something bad happens to you like bulling don't keep it to yourself, you have to go and speak to an adult(parents, director, teacher etc...)I also think this video is very important for all of us because for me this video transmits that bulling is bad because you make others feel bad and that you have a problem go and tell someone because that someone can help you alot, also that you don't get nothing just for making others feel bad you don't get respect nor nothing so if you bull others you don't win nothing. Well I really didn't show it to my parents nor brother because when I enterd the blog that had gone somewere jeje but well when they come back I will show them the video and then I will tell you what they think about the video!!Well I really don't have anithing more to say I already said all.
Well See You
Sofi F

Anonymous said...

Hi there!
I saw the video another time. It was as if I saw it for the first time, because it makes me sad to know that people use useful tools to help others. When you are bullying someone you have to think on how the other person might feel and what would you feel like if you were in that persons place. My parents went out, so I´m going to show them the video another day.
See you,
Barbie M

Anonymous said...

Miss Ale,
Thanks for showing us this video! It would help us a lot reflecting in some ways we act someways and when we bother someone this is what they really feel and we are not taking notise of it and continuing bothering that person or persons. I showed this video to my parents and talked to them about what we´ve worked in class the same day you showed us this video because I felt really sad about this boy, he was really having a bad time and he was right when he said the principal, because in that way he would feel better than when he started that he trowed things and when the parents came he was already asleep and couldn´t talk to them about this comflict he was having. My mother told me that if something liked that happend to me I told her inmediatly so she would help me find a solution to it. And my father told me that I must be very careful when giving personal information in internet or chat because maybe I am giving it to the wrong person and they would get more information about me and that could be very dangerous. I haven´t heard about cyber bullying before, well of course that about bullying yes but never of CYBER BULLYING, I had tought of it but ewven tough I didn´t knew it had that name. I think it is great we are working in this because it is a great problem now in society, and this people that are cyber bullies and bullies must reflect and stop it because they are not taking notice of the damage they are doing to some people and they are being selfish and just thinking of themselfes. The person who made this video really had a point because he was tryieng to stop cyber bullying. It must be very dificuld for the children that are being bullied at this same moment. I hope that they could see this video and understand the importance of telling it to someone(an adult) about this problem so they can help you. I think cyber bullyies apear because are people that are having some tipe of personal problem or as Marcos said in class a tipe of mental problems because if they don´t want other people to do it to you, why are you bothering other people and hurting his or her feelings ??? I think that is a serious problem and must stop somehow. Thanks for adding this video to the blog, it is really helpfull and I hope it would make the people reflect and to know that if this happends to you, YOU MUST TELL AND ADULT!
PS: changing subject i´m very anxious to listen to the teacher tomorrow in the morning before going to punta chica. I don´t know what subject to chose, but I think that maybe french.

See you and Thank you very much,

Shany M

Anonymous said...

Miss Ale
I so the video with my mother. She was really sad about the boy! Well, first of all, thank you for posting it. Now I tell you my mother's opinion.
She thinks the kids who are making cyber bullying are weak. She means that they do this kind of things becuase they feel weak so they botehr someone else to feel stronger, but really they are weaker than the ones they are bothering. Really the bad kids make it to feel braver, and they do it by mail or text message or MSN because they are so weak that they are not brave enough to tell it to someone face to face.
My opinion is also like that, I we both, my motehr and I, think it is a VERY bad thing to do!! I think the same as my motehr, that they want to bother becuase then they want to feel like (machos) becuase they hurt someone's feelings. And that is not the right thing to do. And the kid in the video was very good to go to the teacher who helped him and punished the bully as he deserved to. Maybe someone doesn0t want to go to the teacher becuase his friends can bother him afterwords becuase he told the teacher. And I think that happens in many cases, but it has nothing wrong! I would go to the teacher because she can really hel`p me when I am feeling hurt.
So my conclusion is that ofcourse cyber bullying is bad and we should always comment the teacher about it and if you are the one being bullied don't act weak, be youself and you could solve the problem!
WELL MISS ALE THANK YOU FOR POSTING THIS COMMNENT!!!
SEE YOU SOON...
Kiki

Anonymous said...

Miss Ale:
I liked the video. I think about what the video was about and i talk about it with my family and they are in agree with it. We also came to the agreament that Cyberbulling is really a nusty thing to do I hope all of you understand the video, because it has an important meaning.
martu.v

Anonymous said...

hello miss ale: I think that cyberbulling is the worst thing that someone can make to a person I just cant stand it it makes me really mad when someone bothers me by a pc because they know that it bothers me. One time I was in my house and I entered facebook and someone put me in a nickname a very bothersome way that made me go mad I was very angry that day!!!! I just don´t understand the reason why they make it, sometimes it is because in their family they have problems or something like that but its really nusty and I would like that cyberbulling would disappear and I dont see it any more . I am in the school so I will show it to my fathers at home. I have to go but i will try to put another comment here.
by
vicente

Anonymous said...

Miss Ale

I saw it again with my brother and one of the solutions we thought was that those children that do cyberbullying or bullying they have to reflect why do they do that what do they do it for and the schools have to be more istricts with that the school and with the help of the bullys parents they have to do something that would be good like not having the computer, that the parents know wat do that kid do in the computer.

good bye
jack and jorge

Anonymous said...

Hi ale:
I saw the video with my mother, and she thought it was a very good video and gave lots of reasons of what is happening in some school or with some childs, they get a bad use of the internet that was created for a good use. Also there is no reason of bullying others, all the other way when you cyberbully showsan act of coward
bye
gini.l

Anonymous said...

Dear Miss Ale I AM REALLY HAPPY THAT YOU CHOSED TO TALK ABOUT THIS TIPES OF PROBLESM THAT ARE SO HEARTFUL AS NOTHING ELSE IN THE WORLD!!!!!!!!
I think that it is very important to talk about this with our parents becasue they are the ones who can stop cyberbullying and the ones who will be there to help us any time that it will can maybe happen to us. One of the most significant meanings this video has is that it shows you the way the people feel when they read all those things that people write to them, like that they are a nerd or things liked that wich are really really hertful and sad for the two of them, just the same as the one who recives it as like the one who sends it and I'll tell"cool" or fun to bother other people and through that way they will feel like a heroe, they will show the other peers how "powerful" they are and how coraugeos they look, but if you think about it they really look and make them a person who does not take decisions by itself and he/she looks kind of silly because what does it affect you that the other person(it may sound ridiculous) live and the way they even breath at the same planet is the only reason the bullyers will maybe have to bully another person, wich is still not correct, the way they think that they look fun and cool, in my opinion, when I heare about different situations, it makes me feel bad about the bullyer, it even makes me feel sad becasue they just spent time on bothering others and by that they think that they will get to something but they will not, it makes me feel sad about them because something really bad needs to happen to the bullyer so that they bother another person wich will has never got in his/her life, that is really something that makes me suffer so much when I think about that situations because you feel that the world is not by your side so that will maybe be the way they call the attention of everybody. I have talked all through my life and my education day after day about the way that I should tell someone if there is something bothering me, I should tell him/her on the right place and on the wright time because I whould try to make that person understand that I'm not trying to heart his or her feelings, I am just having the power to go and tell them that I am kind of "unconfortable" about how they treat me or anything like that, wich up jto now, fortunatley, it has never happen that I feel unconfortable with my friends. But if you think about this people who bully others, you will realise thtat this persons don't have the power to say it face to face, but they still bother people by Internet but they will never ever show their face up becasue they are scared and that is something that bothers me and makes me sad because you think about the way they spent their time and in my opinion this makes me shiver, it is so sad to see in videos like this how we each one another heart the other. If I weare in those people plce and if I am somebody who enters the blog, I will chek on this video because it makes people relize that they have created absolutley every program for us to have fun at the computer, but this is NOT FUN, IT'S EVEN SAD AND IT IS VERY VERY HEARTFUL, so if you know of someone who is a bullyer tell him/her to STOP RIGHT AWAY and try to look all the other wonderful things that are around us, and if that bullyer has bullyed a friend, that person should go and tell the one who she/he bullyed that they are sorry about the way they acted and about the things that he/she told the bullyer...
MISS ALE PLEASE IF YOU FIND MORE VIDEOS WICH SHOW THE WAY PEOPLE ARE DOING THE WRONG THING, PLEASE POST IT!!!!!!!
IT HAS REALLY MAKE ME AND MY FAMILY REFLECT A LOT ON THIS!!!!!!!
THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR HELP!!
THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THIS POST!!
BYE BYE...
SEE YOU SOON...
CAMI W

Anonymous said...

Ale: I am following the comment I put in which I didnt have time to finish becuase the bell rung. NOw the viseo is charging and I am waiting for my mother because my father is in Santa Fe and comes tomorrow.
It really hearts me when someone bothers you or makes you something bad, but when they make it to you by a pc. Ive just shown it to my mother and she said it was a wonderful video!!! many people when they are in the pc feel strong and corageus if they put that stupid things but they are really some persons in which are hurting some other peoples heart. Its not funny and for what reason they make it. If they have some preblem to solve, thats not the way. He or she should go and in the persons face tell him and solve the problem. The only thing that you have to do when you are cyberbullied is to print the paper and show it to the headmaster or teacher so you can solve the problem . If it isnt of school you should talk to him in person and tell him what you feel and think about waht he is making you, and if he keeps on cyberbulling delete him from the msn or whatever chat it is. YOU SHOULD NEVER LET SOMEONE TO KEEP ON BULLING YOU !!!!!!!!!! One time I told one person that what would happen if I bullied him like he did to me, and he told me he wouldn´t had liked it so I told him that his feeling was the same the mine. But he kept in bulling me and now I can´t even stop him sometimes.
If someone wants to bully someone, he should think a little before he acts. My parents usually tell me that for other resons. It should really be stoped. and sometimes they tell me like I didnt mean to dou you pardon me? and I say yes but after some minutes they start bothering again and again. They wouldn´t like to be bullied.
bye bye
vicente
pd: How you make the thing in vote of which country you are????? it´s cool I put like if I was of Asia and also of another country jajajajj
bye
vicente

Anonymous said...

miss ale, i think that cyberbulling is a very bad way on spending time. me and my mother think that it is not nice that people bully you, but we think that there has to be a solution to the problem like showing it to and adult and other things. this comment is very good, i hope there are other such good comments.

felipe s

Anonymous said...

Miss Ale the video is very strong inan emotional way,it shows a realyti.
Maybe now millions of children are being cyberbullied.and it says also that if you know something you shoud tell the principal.Thats onesty because you are not helping yoursel, yoyr helping others.the one who bullies or ciberbully you are also helping him.

Anonymous said...

hi miss ale....
I think that cyberbulling is not nice because it can hurt other peoples feelings and it is something against the rules (i think) and it is awful to receive all those messages only becasue and when they feel like.

bye bye...

valen g.

Anonymous said...

Miss ale:
this video is great, it shows the real meaning of what being cyberbulled is. I would hate if that ever happened to me!! I hope that persons who cyberbull other people reflect on it and are able to change. They maybe don't realize how that hurts to other people. They should put in the other person place. The mails they send to them are realyy horrible. They maybe think that cyberbull makes them popular or cool for other person but it doesnt. Well I can say that cyberbullying is a horrible thing to do and it hurts others badly.. I wish someday this stops!!
well see you
pili.m.

Anonymous said...

Miss ale
I think that cyberbully is a very serious problem and it is present in most the social sites like MSN®, facebook® today I was playing at facebook and it appeared a banner that said "concting to chat room sining in..." so I think it is very carfult cyberbullies in internet.
About the video I thinnk that I would feel very very upset because I dont now who can be the one who is bulling me, it can be your very nearlly friend. In adittion he thinks he is being cool or funny but he is the one who is loosing his reputation and friends and seccondly for what he is doing this he doesn´t wins nothing. He can be spending his time in something much more usefull but he spends time doing something wrong. Finally the one who will be harmed would be the BULLY.
To sum up I would say that if you want to bully Think it twice because you are not wining nothing, you are only harming you and your friends.

luis g (THE BLOGGERR!!!)