CYBERWELLNESS ~

this blog is to teach you about the dangers of the internet and what you can do to prevent getting bullied,  hurt, and to be cyber safe on the internet ! (:

if you feel uncomfortable in any website immediately shut down the website and inform a trusted adult, teacher, or counselor. :D 


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cyber wellness tips.

examples of  cyberbullying. 


-sending offensive/rude/insulting messages or pictures.
-deliberately excluding a person from chat activities such as chats, etc.
-spreading rumors/lying about someone  .
-sending threat messages.
-fighting online using vulgar language.


are you a net addict ?
-spending hours online without leaving the computer.
-cutting classes and wanting to stop going to school.
-stop doing homework and grades drop,
-getting angry easily & is verbally agressive .
-skipping meals or giving up sleep just so you can use the computer .
-lies about computer usage
-steals money / spends alot of money to buy computer games, game cash or to go to cyber cafes.

more tips on cyberwellness..

1) Avoid personal or identifying details when posting in your blog,  Do not post in advance about locations that you will be or about areas that you live near.

2) Refrain from posting a picture. Photos can invite unwanted attention or trouble.

3) Post anonymously. Manage your blog annonymously or adopt an alias or nickname for all online posting as  This will help to  protect you if you ever draw unwanted attention.

4) Use nicknames that do not reveal your real name,  gender or age or location at any point of time.

    

interesting facts about facebook! (:

Some cool and interesting facts about Facebook:

1. Close to a billion photos are uploaded on Facebook every month! 

2. More than 300 million users are active on Facebook! 

3. 30+ million profiles have their status messages updated at least once every day. Here’s a link to some funny facebook status messages.

4. FARMVILLE boasts more that 60 million players on FACEBOOK! :o

5. Facebook deletes accounts with strange sounding names like “Leboe”, “Allien”, etc. perhaps they dont want to allow any fake accounts! :D

6. Founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, is the world’s youngest billionaire! 

7. The average facebook user has 130 friends & sends 8 friend requests per month! cool. :)

dangers of facebook :O

 Your privacy may be in greater risk of being violated than you know when you log onto Facebook, due to security gaffes or marketing efforts by the it!  

some dangers  Facebook users expose themselves to, probably without aware of it :

1. Your information is being shared with third parties 

2. Privacy settings revert to a less safe default mode after each redesign  [ of the website] 

3. Facebook ads may contain malware  (a computer program designed specifically to damage or disrupt a system, such as a virus) 


4. Your real friends unknowingly make you vulnerable ! 

5. Scammers are creating fake profiles ..



SO, BEWARE, do not share to much information on 'Facebook!' 
you never know who someone really is behind the computer screen ! :O 




learn more about it at: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/05/08/earlyshow/saturday/main6469373.shtml
Monday, January 17 2011. 

inspirational use of facebook.

inspiring people on facebook (:
by: 

1. posting inspirational quotes, 
2. writing inspirational status-es to encourage your friends & family,
3. keeping in touch with  friends & family :D
4. play gtames to relax

local case study!

Dec 15, 2008

Cyber bullies turn vicious More teens falling prey to online intimidation, which is seen to be escalating in intensity
 By Tan Weizhen 



A 16-YEAR-OLD girl here created fake profiles on popular social networking sites MySpace and Facebook with a single-minded purpose: To befriend those she disliked in school.
Once the connections were made, the teen turned on her schoolmates, hurling nasty insults at them.
The bullying was reminiscent of a now infamous 2006 case where American teenager Megan Meier killed herself after being taunted online. In that case, the mother of a former friend created a phoney online profile to bully the girl.
According to psychologist Vanessa von Auer, the Singaporean girl was discovered by the school before her victims could suffer any deep emotional scars.
Psychologists, counsellors and teachers, however, are worried that the methods of Singaporean cyber bullies have morphed into something more vicious than before.Mostly, the cyber bullies target victims through e-mail messages or forum postings.
Now, experts say, the bullying has turned 'viral'.
The rising popularity of social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace, YouTube videos as well as multi-media messages has made the humiliation of the victims more widespread and more immediate than ever.

'It just takes one to get it going, and it's like wildfire. Online, users can see what others are doing, even if they're half a continent away,' said Dr CAROL Balhetchet.
Psychologists are worried about the effects of cyber bullying and how the attacks may be escalating in frequency and intensity.

Referring to a case last month where an American teenager committed suicide live via a webcam in front of netizens, some of whom had egged him on, she added: 'The ante has been upped.'
In Singapore, students commonly band together in blogs and social networks to intimidate victims, say teachers and school counsellors.

'Most of them are cases of students who cyber bully others through blogs, naming their victims, then telling the whole school to read their blogs,' said one teacher, who did not want to be named.

One related how a group of boys bullied a girl and uploaded the video online. The girl was traumatised and faced problems getting along with the boys after that, even crying in class.
Aims recommended that an annual fund and agency be set up for the protection of minors. They would, among other things, promote cyber safety.

 instead of bullying  someone you don't like because you don't like their behavior etc., you should either confront that person and clear the airs between the both of you or the best thing to do is you ignore the person. I also think that if you are bullied in any ways, don't keep your emotions to yourself as you'll be really hurt in the end. Instead, tell your parents or teachers what you have been through and i promise you that they'll help you. dont keep it to yourself, share with others & tell your feelings to a trusted adult, parent, friend (:, or councillor! :) life gets better. trustme xD you dont have to feel afriad! REMEMBER, NEVER BOTTLE UP YOUR FEELINGS! 


BULLYING! ! 
anti bullying ~! its a way of life. :)

FOR MORE INFO, PLEASE GO TO :http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking%2BNews/Singapore/Story/STIStory_314573.html

or

http://jc-crush-tk.blogspot.com/ 

HELLO.

:D