The Cyberbullying Research Center is helping Slate Magazine in their newest initiative to delve into the vivid experiences of those who have been victimized online (primarily through cyberbullying, sexting, and cyberstalking). This multi-faceted and long-term project seeks to collect stories, interact with those most affected, and deeply understand the problem and what can be done to stop it. Please seriously think about being a part – by sharing what you’ve gone through, by spreading the word, or by simply following the forthcoming series of articles via Slate, Facebook, or Twitter. You can read more about the project here.
All sites need to have available the IP address of posters. Just as 90% of phone numbers have a reverse lookup you can even find out weather the caller has a police record. Bullying on a playground you usually know who or where it is coming from. On the internet they go unseen and could live anywhere even right next door to the victim. If a murder occured because of an internet cyberbullying event there needs to be a way to track the people. Many of the social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace have had problems with people creating false accounts and proceding to cyberbully. Fake identities on profiles is against the sites TOS and the bully should be held accountable for the fraud. One site I know of (link defunct) has such a large percentage af bullying and identity fraud that it is staggering. They will not help in obtaining IP information or logs of any kind. Many children on that site recieve life threats and sexually explicit bullying. There is no way to find out if these threats are by a pedifile across the country or a sicko kid up the street. This is a huge violation of any sence of security.
It makes me sick knowing that there are so many people out there who think that bullying is fun and that they have every right to do it.
All sites need to have available the IP address of posters. Just as 90% of phone numbers have a reverse lookup you can even find out weather the caller has a police record. Bullying on a playground you usually know who or where it is coming from. On the internet they go unseen and could live anywhere even right next door to the victim. If a murder occured because of an internet cyberbullying event there needs to be a way to track the people. Many of the social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace have had problems with people creating false accounts and proceding to cyberbully. Fake identities on profiles is against the sites TOS and the bully should be held accountable for the fraud. One site I know of (link defunct) has such a large percentage af bullying and identity fraud that it is staggering. They will not help in obtaining IP information or logs of any kind. Many children on that site recieve life threats and sexually explicit bullying. There is no way to find out if these threats are by a pedifile across the country or a sicko kid up the street. This is a huge violation of any sence of security.
It makes me sick knowing that there are so many people out there who think that bullying is fun and that they have every right to do it.