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bullying and harassment online – talking points for children

Children spend a lot of online time on social networking sites like MySpace, where they post content about themselves, and can view information about others. Occasionally, this results in malicious material being posted. Here’s some advice for children to deal with this.

  • if you find anything on a website meant to harass or embarrass you, show it to a parent, teacher or police, and print it as evidence
  • report it to the host of the service – they’ll investigate and usually take this kind of web page down
  • be careful what you post about yourself – think about how it might be misused
  • only give your contact details to trusted family and friends
  • use the privacy settings on sites like Bebo, MySpace and other networking sites to restrict your site to people you know

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where to next?

For more about bullying and harassment, the following sites contain information on the subject of bullying in general:

www.bullying.co.uk

www.kidscape.org.uk

www.parentlineplus.org.uk

For further information on bullying and text messages, visit the National Children’s Home page.

For a free short film tackling the issue of mobile bullying, click here.