What is bullying? According to the dictionary, bullying is the use of superior strength or influence to intimidate someone, usually to force them to do something or simply to make life difficult for him or her.

MY PRIMARY SCHOOL BULLY

I was a new student in this school in Lagos (primary 5). And this girl just chose to pick on me (naturally, new students who come in “midstream”, are easy targets). None of my classmates was allowed to speak with me. I sat alone, ate alone during Break. I was miserable; I hated the school and dreaded every morning.

Somehow I survived the “mass attack”, and when I got to primary six, I became the class monitor. One of my duties was to write down the names of noisemakers whenever the teacher left the class. Just imagine what happened to the bully in that class- I now became the “bully”!

THE HISTORY OF CYBERBULLYING

This is bullying with the aid of the Internet. The technology evolution has greatly encouraged globalism. The world appears to be one room, basically. This unfortunately means that anything posted on social media can reach hundreds of people in a second. In other words, if bullying is bad, cyber bullying is a lot worse!

It is very common among teenagers, who spread rumors on social media, post embarrassing pictures, videos and fake news about their victims. Considering the fact that we are part of the global “room”, and our young ones have become active members of this room, it is important to understand the types of Cyber bullying and preventive actions, as our children become more active in the global room.

TYPES OF CYBERBULLYING

There are 10 different types of Cyber bullying, according to kids.kaspersky.com but I will be classifying them into 6 types.

HOW TO PREVENT CYBERBULLYING

I bet you are wondering why you need to go through all this, wouldn’t it be easier to just refuse to give them access to computers, smartphones and androids?

After all which one did we grow up with? Please understand, this is a totally different generation.

Generation Z kids are growing up with a sophisticated media environment, and we cant deter this Movement.

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