Cyber-smart
What it means to be cyber-smart and why it is important?
Cyber-smart means always doing the correct things on the internet and not giving
negative comments towards others. Why is it important ? , well cyber-smart is important
because it affects people’s life such as suicide and self harming themselves.
Two things you learnt about being cyber-smart and how you could apply it to
your own life ?
1. I’ve learnt to take screenshots of the hurtful things that the bully has said to me
or someone else and show it to an elderly so that they can sort it out instead of
me trying to sort things out myself. It has applied to my life because once I’ve
been bullied online and I did take screenshots of it and as I showed my
teacher what happened she made a meeting between all senior classes and
started talking about bullies and how much it can affect someone’s life. When
the meeting finished she kept me behind and told that girl to come too and
she talked to her about how much it hurt me.
2. I’ve learnt to not post anything that can hurt someone else feelings or
inappropriate because even if you delete it, it’s actually not deleted
because others could have screenshot it and sent it to someone else.
This has applied to my life because when I posted something on my
social media account it hurt their feelings heaps and I didn’t think
twice before I posted this but someone did screenshot what I said about
that person and she came to me and was telling me that it hurt her
heaps she was in tears which made me feel guilty.
So think twice before you post something because it will also affect you and your feelings.
A personal strategy a young person can do to help themselves if they are
being cyber-bullied ?
If your getting bullied and you don’t know how to solve it and you find it hard to tell your parents you could always go to one of your closet friends and tell them about what has happened between you and that person.
You can screenshot it and send it to an elderly and tell them how it makes you feel so that they can sort it out.
Block them on all you accounts and also unfriend them so that they have no contact with you.
Tell your school social worker about it so that they can tell you how to fix the problem.
Make sure that you don’t do anything bad to yourself, if you think life sucks for you carry on and think positive about yourself and be you who cares about what others got to say towards you.
A interpersonal strategy a young person can do to help their friend who is
being cyber-bullied ?
If your friend is getting cyber-bullied then you need to get someone old enough to
sort the problem out. Make sure that you get help straight away because things
may get out of hand and there should always be someone free to come talk
to you. If you think that your scared to tell your parents or their parents you could
go to your social worker to help you out because anyone could help as long
as their old enough to understand and old enough to talk to that person.
A personal strategy a young person who finds themselves bullying
other young people can do to help build their self-esteem and
change their behaviour?
A way you can change your behaviour is by putting a stop to it because it
can affect that person’s life heaps because you may not know what happens at home.
They may be struggling in life and they may look like the lonely one with no friends
and also think of this saying.
“ The person you pushed today, already has bruises on them and get abused at home.
The person you called fat has been trying to lose weight for 2 years now.
The person you called lonely is going through depression.
The person you said has no friends has been struggling to make friends since
she started school. The person you made bullied today, you may never see them again.
Think twice before act you may never know how much it affects them.
Tips to give to the year 6's about how they could become cyber-smart ?
Make sure you always say nice things on the internet
Use positive comments towards the people your texting
If you ever see someone getting bullied get help straight away
If you see post that you think will hurt someone don’t repost it
Watch your language on the internet
