What you need to know before you can prevent it! - Chat rooms
can often lack supervision. - While some chat hosts regularly
observe the dialog in chat rooms in an effort to monitor
conversations and remove aggressive individuals, many have no
provisions made to regulate the conversations at all. - Personal
messages sent between users are seen by only the sender and the
receiver, and therefore outside the narrow reach of law
enforcement officials. - Teenagers often know more about
computers and cell phones than their parents or guardians and
are therefore able to operate the technologies without worrying
that a probing parent will discover their experience with
bullying. Necessssary prevention skills! - Parents and other
adults need to take time to become informed about bullying so it
can easily be prevented. - By finding out more about technology
and checking your child or studentís email or text messages
regularly you will be better able to monitor negative influences
on your child including who they are tal