750 views - Little Gossip

Came across a SNS I've never heard of before, and to be honest, its pretty vile.

Its called Little Gossip and all its function is to allow people to leave comments anonymously about their fellow classmates and/or teachers, here's an example from our very own Plymouth University:

' Name omitted is a big/ugly dog who occupies her time by gossiping about people as well as trying to turn people against them. She needs to grow the hell up. Seems to me that no one actually likes her, besides a few lads and 'her girls'. Everyone else just tolerates her so she doesn't go all physco on them.'

what about this one

'has shagged over 100 people and is a known gonorrhea spreader'

Its a shame to think that cyber bullying is still present, even at this level, I assume that this person has some intelligence as they can spell gonorrhea. Whats worse, is that beside the comments made by students, other people have the opportunity to to decide whether this is a false statment or true and sadly it invariably turns out to be the latter.

What is a laugh on this site is their 'safety tips'....

Do not bully, harass or target other users of LittleGossip community with hate speech or threats. It’s not allowed to imitate other users on LittleGossip. Never post any content on LittleGossip that is obscene, threatening, harassing, libelous, hate-oriented, racist or contains information about an underage. If you have doubts about posting any questionable content, it can indicate that you are close to breaking this rule.

REPORTING GOSSIPS

LittleGossip wants to maintain a positive vibe on the site. Every gossip on the site can be removed in return for one positive / light-hearted / funny post. In order to delete the gossip please click ‘Report’ button. You can submit one piece of gossip about yourself or anyone you know and get the gossip you reported removed. Please note, we have sophisticated monitoring systems in place and if gossip submitted doesn't make sense then the gossip you were trying to remove will come back.

If gonorrhea spreader isn't obscene then what is and how that is a positive vibe beats me, I'm sure the VICTIMS because they are victims of cyber bullying don;t find this light-hearted, in fact I doubt that they even know its on this site, because I've certainly never heard of this SNS before.

I found in an article that in December of last year the site closed down and reopend saying that the site is only for adults...hmmm...thats why in the list there are sixth forms....so the site is open to 16 year olds? Even without the age/adult arguement, what about vunerable adults??? Perfect quote from a concerned father:

"It's cyber-bullying at its worst," he said. "Seriously, kids are going to take their lives because of this site."

I couldn't agree more, in another article the head of James Allen’s Girls’ School in Dulwich, South East London had this to say:

‘I’m just so angry that this vehicle for cyber-bullying exists. I can’t imagine what kind of person wants to set up a site like this. It must be some kind of sick person.’

Sums it all up really...truely sad and disgusting

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1340570/LittleGossip-com-Teachers-horror-website-private-school-cyber-bullies.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-12074838
http://www.littlegossip.com/

690 views - Parents cyber bullying teachers!!

Found this interesting article about teachers being abused online by parents!!

 The National Association of Headteachers (NAHT) is telling its members to be more willing to take on the adult bullies after receiving a number calls from teachers who have been cyberbullied. According to NAHT the majority of complaints are about parents using the SNS to criticise teachers and their school's leadership.

A parent spoke about her use of Facebook to slander the school:

"For three days, I vented my anger and my spleen on my Facebook page. If they had come to speak to me and make those appointments I wouldn't have had to use the Internet to get my point across. No-one at the school was listening.

Ha, and we wonder where cyber bullying comes from, what sort of message does this send to her child, she is scarily oblivious to the sort of character she is showing herself to be. SNS are not for ignorant people to discuss subjects in a completely inappropriate way, yes 3 days is a bit excessive, but what was happening during those 3 days in school? Are you sure the situation wasn't being noted? Instead of throwing your toys out of the pram and stamping your feet realise that schools don't revolve around you and your needs, yes bullying is an awful situation but as the saying goes, you can't fight fire with fire.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-12162063

600 views - Anti Bullying Week 14th- 18th Nov 2011!!!

Next week marks the start of Anti Bullying Week =D http://www.antibullyingweek.co.uk/

The theme for this years anti bullying campaign is "Stop and think - words can hurt" I think this is especially important in terms of cyber bullying where I've already discussed that children and young adults don't always think before they write.

I for one is very proud that Cornwall County Council posted this on their website

'Our Anti-Bullying Week slogan Stop and think - words can hurt challenges children and young people to stop and think about the language they are using in their face-to-face and digital communications.'

Got an e mail from TES, with this guide for parents about bullying, notice how absolutly no where is there any remarks about cyber bullying - http://www.tes.co.uk/teaching-resource/Anti-bullying-guide-6020285/s_cid/Mon_News_RES but there is some really good generic anti bullying resources on here =D

Happy Anti-Bullying week!!!

540 views - what a silly woman

So my last few blogs have been a bit heavy so here's a nice story on a bit of adult cyber bullying (yes I know its a bit loose, but I still trying to make it related to e-safety!) and what a brilliant comeback!

This silly woman forgot that her boss was her friend on Facebook and went on a rant about her 'peervy' (yes that's the cyberbullying bit :) but what a brilliant response!!!



http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1206491/Woman-sacked-Facebook-boss-insult-forgetting-added-friend.html

420 views - Social network sites 'have duty' to stop cyberstalking

This news report (http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/14085766) is based on the first study into cyberstalking!!! considering MySpace launched in 2003 and Facebook in 2004 and Bebo in 2005 its a little bit overdue as I am willing to bet cyberstalking started the moment these SNS started, who hasn't looked up their exes, the girl we hated at school, our crushes etc. But when is having a a quick glance turn into a serious case of cyberstalking. Check out this story-

"Newsbeat spoke to another male victim who had been stalked online by a former workmate for more than three years. 'He started dozens of bogus accounts on every social networking site you can imagine," he said. "He's used those to contact my family, my friends and my schoolmates."

This isn't an isolated case, Working to Halt Abuse Online worked on 349 cases of cyberstalkig in 2010 - http://www.haltabuse.org/resources/stats/index.shtml

To be honest, I think that this figure is well below what that actual figure of cyberstalking cases is....

360 views- Good little video for kids on e-safety

Found this video today, definatley gave me an uncomfortable feeling, casting did a good job on the bloke!

Check out the realisation on the kids faces when the interviewer starts asking about their SNS! Classic!

Excellent point on how she didn't even know she could have privacy settings on her SNS!!

Drat, they did a better cyberbullying video then me :(

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_o8auwnJtqE

150 views - Continuing the cyber bully theme

Really good website all about cyberbullying - especially this little gem...are you a cyber bully....you might be surprised you facebook stalkers out there!!!!

http://www.stopcyberbullying.org/teens/are_you_a_cyberbully.html

120 views - Shocking statistics about Cyber-Bullying

 Anti Bullying Alliance (ABA) survey revealed the following:

• One in five (20.5%) of students aged 10-11 had been cyber bullied in the past 12 months
• 18% of the 10-11 year olds surveyed have been cyber bullied while at home.

A joint European Union/London School of Economics study published in January 2011, entitled Risks and safety on the internet: The perspective of European children, surveyed 9-16 year olds and their parents in 25 countries and found the following:

• 6% of 9-16 year olds have been sent nasty or hurtful messages online , and 3% have sent such messages to others.
• Over half of those who received bullying messages were fairly or very upset.
• One in 13 of the 15-16 year olds report receiving nasty or hurtful messages online.
• Those who have been bullied online are more likely to have been bullied on a social networking site or by instant messaging than by email, in gaming sites or chatrooms

source: - http://puresight.com/Cyberbullying/cyber-bullying-statistics.html

60 Views - My video on cyber bullying

Hi, 60 views now so heres the next blog, I made a video about cyber bullying....enjoy

Oh, unfortunatly myself and Youtube have had a falling out, so don't view this on slideshare, download it and the music/videos will work on Powerpoint....SMILES =D

http://www.slideshare.net/jade-sadler/cyberbullying-9992581