Cyber Denigration: Spreading rumours, lies or gossip to hurt a person’s reputation Continually sending vicious, mean or disturbing Harassment: Parents are reminded messages to an individual that they should inform Impersonation: Posting offensive or aggressive messages under themselves of the another person’s name appropriate age at Flaming: Using inflammatory or vulgar words to provoke an which social media online fight should be used. Trickery: Fooling someone into sharing personal information which you then post online e.g. No child under the Outing: Posting or sharing confidential or compromising age of 13 should have a information or images Facebook page. Exclusion: Purposefully excluding someone from an online group Cyber stalking: Ongoing harassment and denigration that causes a person considerable fear for his/her safety Silent telephone/mobile phone call Abusive telephone/mobile calls Abusive text messages Abusive email Abusive communication on social networks e.g. Facebook/Ask.fm/ Twitter/You Tube or on games consoles Abusive website comments/Blogs/Pictures Abusive posts on any form of communication technology Identity Based Behaviours Including any of the nine discriminatory grounds mentioned in Equality Legislation (gender including transgender, civil status, family status, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, race and membership of the Traveller community). Spreading rumours about a person’s sexual orientation Homophobic and Taunting a person of a different sexual orientation Transgender Name calling e.g. Gay, queer, lesbian...used in a derogatory manner Physical intimidation or attacks Threats Race, nationality, ethnic Exclusion on the basis of any of the above background and Discrimination, prejudice, comments or insults about colour, membership of the nationality, culture, social class, religious beliefs, ethnic or Traveller community traveller background This involves manipulating relationships as a means of bullying. Behaviours include: Malicious gossip Relational Isolation & exclusion Ignoring Excluding from the group Taking someone’s friends away “Bitching” Spreading rumours Breaking confidence Talking loud enough so that the victim can hear The “look” Use or terminology such as in a derogatory way ‘nerd’ Sexual Unwelcome or inappropriate sexual comments or touching
Cyber Parents are reminded that they should inform themselves of the appropriate age at which social media should be used. e.g. No child under the age of 13 should have a Facebook page. Denigration: Spreading rumours, lies or gossip to hurt a person’s reputation Harassment: Continually sending vicious, mean or disturbing messages to an individual Impersonation: Posting offensive or aggressive messages under another person’s name Flaming: Using inflammatory or vulgar words to provoke an online fight Trickery: Fooling someone into sharing personal information which you then post online Outing: Posting or sharing confidential or compromising information or images Exclusion: Purposefully excluding someone from an online group Cyber stalking: Ongoing harassment and denigration that causes a person considerable fear for his/her safety Silent telephone/mobile phone call Abusive telephone/mobile calls Abusive text messages Abusive email Abusive communication on social networks e.g. Facebook/Ask.fm/ Twitter/You Tube or on games consoles Abusive website comments/Blogs/Pictures Abusive posts on any form of communication technology Identity Based Behaviours Including any of the nine discriminatory grounds mentioned in Equality Legislation (gender including transgender, civil status, family status, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, race and membership of the Traveller community). Homophobic and Transgender Spreading rumours about a person’s sexual orientation Taunting a person of a different sexual orientation Name calling e.g. Gay, queer, lesbian...used in a derogatory manner Physical intimidation or attacks Threats Race, nationality, ethnic background and membership of the Traveller community Exclusion on the basis of any of the above Discrimination, prejudice, comments or insults about colour, nationality, culture, social class, religious beliefs, ethnic or traveller background Relational This involves manipulating relationships as a means of bullying. Behaviours include: Malicious gossip Isolation & exclusion Ignoring Excluding from the group Taking someone’s friends away “Bitching” Spreading rumours Breaking confidence Talking loud enough so that the victim can hear The “look” Use or terminology such as ‘nerd’ in a derogatory way Sexual Unwelcome or inappropriate sexual comments or touching
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